1. Why does rent control result in a shortage of rental units.

2. How does price elasticity of demand affect how much of a tax is passed on to the consumer and how much is absorbed by the seller. Illustrate the effect with graphs.

3. Why can monopolistic firms create economic profit in the short run bot not in the long run. Illustrate and show graphically.

4. Your brother-in-law wants to borrow $1000 from you but he has a fit when you tell him he will have to pay you the similar interest on the loan that the bank gives you. Are you justified?

5. During the 1930s Jewish fighters dominated boxing. From the around 1975 until the present, blacks have dominated basketball. Illustrate the cause(s) underlying these two situations.