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1. Explain why excise taxes are more effective at raising tax revenues when applied to products with price inelastic demand versus ones with price elastic demand. Under what conditions would it be possible for tax revenues to decline with higher excise taxes?
2. Discuss each of the pricing strategies below. What conditions are necessary to make each strategy successful in terms of increasing profits? Explain your answer.
a. A local restaurant/bar offers discounted drinks during "happy hour," from 5 to 6 PM on weeknights.
b. The price Company X charges for its ink cartridges is nearly as much as it charges for a printer.
c. Packs of 5 T-shirts cost $10 while an individual T-shirt costs $4.
d. Coupons for specials at a local grocery store can be downloaded from an online site.
e. Computer and appliance manufacturers promote service contracts.
f. Microsoft Office includes several programs in one package
3. If an auction house is selling products to risk neutral buyers, which of the types of auction would you recommend? If you are a potential buyer, what might your strategy be? Support your answers using economic analysis learned in this course.
4. Explain how incomplete information can cause market failure. Give at least one example of this type of market failure and explain how government intervention has been used to correct the problem. How effective has this form of intervention been? Use the material from this course to support your answer
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Create links on each page that link to the other two pages
: cis 273- Create links on each page that link to the other two pages. Create navigation links on each page that link to the other two pages. On the home page, create an image linked to http://strayer.edu.
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Walmart executive committee
: Create a 6-8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that will be presented to Walmart's Executive Committee. The presentation should cover the following items:
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Which dividends are expected to grow at rate
: Huang Company's last dividend was $1.25 (D0). The dividend growth rate is expected to be constant at 15% for 3 years, after which dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 6% forever. If the firm's required return (rs) is 11%, what is its current s..
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What do you think his or her gpa will be
: Thirteen students entered the business program at Sante Fe College 2 years ago. Is there a meaningful relationship between SAT math scores and grades? If a student scores a 350, what do you think his or her GPA will be
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Types of auction would you recommend
: If an auction house is selling products to risk neutral buyers, which of the types of auction would you recommend? If you are a potential buyer, what might your strategy be? Support your answers using economic analysis learned in this course.
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Show that the variance of the weight is finite
: Compare the previous choice with choosing (θ|x) as the instrumental distribution when the likelihood is proportional to a density. (Hint: Consider the case of exponential families.)
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The dividend is projected to increase at constant rate
: Fiveline Inc.'s stock currently sells for $35.25 per share. The dividend is projected to increase at a constant rate of 5.00% per year. The required rate of return on the stock, rs, is 11.50%. What is the stock's expected price 5 years from now (i.e..
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How does this fda regulation protect consumers
: 1. How does this FDA regulation protect consumers? 2. Why did the company voluntarily change its product name? 3. What effect did this regulation have on the company and on consumers?
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Expected long run growth rate-what is the price of the stock
: A share of common stock has just paida dividend of $2.50 (D0). If the expected long run growth rate for this stock is 4 percent per year, and if investors require a 12 percent rate of return, what is the price of the stock?
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