The worst drought in over 50 years has decimated crops of soy beans and corn in the United States. (Source: New York Times, August 10, 2012). Because the production of corn has decreased, prices are expected to increase by 25 percent
These data are insufficient for calculating the elasticity of demand because we also need to know the A) percentage increase in income.
B) percentage increase in quantity.
C) percentage decrease in quantity.
D) increase in bushels per acre.
C
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Use the following graph showing the domestic demand and supply curves for a specific product in a hypothetical nation called Marketopia to answer the next question.
At what price will Marketopia be neither importing nor exporting the product?
A. $2.50 B. $1.00 C. $1.50 D. $2.00
The president of Toyota's Georgetown plant was quoted as saying, "Demand for high volumes saps your energy. Over a period of time, it eroded our focus [and] thinned out the expertise and knowledge we painstakingly built up over the years"
This quote suggests that A) as Toyota expanded its capacity, it experienced diseconomies of scale. B) Toyota was focused on "churning" out cars for which it did not invest sufficiently in training its workers. C) high demand for Toyota's cars prevented the company from focusing on its strength: auto design. D) Toyota was experiencing an excess demand for its automobiles which it had difficulty keeping up with.
Jennifer lives in two periods. In the first period, her income is fixed at $72,000; in the second, she is gets a 4% raise in her income. She can borrow and save at the market interest rate of 5 percent.
(A) Sketch her intertemporal budget constraint. (B) Suppose that Jennifer is unable to lend at any rate of interest, although she can still borrow at 5 percent. Sketch her new intertemporal budget constraint.
The price of the stock divided by the profits per share of stock is known as the
A) price-earnings ratio. B) dividend. C) yield in percent per year. D) number of shares traded during the day.