Currently you work for 40 hours per week at the wage rate of 20 an hour. Your free hours are defined as the number of hours not spent in work per week, which in this case is24 hours \times 7 days − 40 hours = 128$ hours per week. Suppose now that your wage rate has increased by 25%. If you are happy
Four farmers are deciding whether to contribute to the maintenance of an irrigation project. For each farmer, the cost of contributing to the project is 10. But when any one farmer contributes, all four of them will benefit from an increase in their crop yields, in particular each gains additional8.
The table represents market demand Q for a good at different prices P. Q 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1,000 P 270240 210180 150120 9060 300 The firm's unit cost of production is $60. Based on this information, which of the following is correct?
Consider the situation where the noise of a factory's production affects nurses in the dormitory next door. If there are no transaction costs to impede bargaining, which of the following statements is correct?
Maria earns 12 per hour in her current job and works 35 hours a week. Her disutility of effort is equivalent to a cost of2 per hour of work. If she loses her job, she will receive unemployment benefit equivalent to 6 per hour. Additionally, being unemployed has psychological and social costs equival
The degree to which members of society have equal opportunity of success, irrespective of their family background, is often measured by intergenerational elasticity of income. Roughly, it measures what percentage of inequality between members of the generation is passed on to the members of the next
During his lecture at Sberbank Corporate University, Ilya Androsov was talking about countries that find themselves in a situation of current account deficit. a) (15 rp) Using the example of Turkey, explain why this deficit can be detrimental to economic growth.
Consider two commodities, A and B, that are substitutes in consumption. a) (10 pr) Suppose that the number of consumers of good A increased, thus shifting the demand for it. Assuming perfect competition in both markets, what can you say about the resulting change in the price of B? Explain in detail
A situation where a government official uses his position to acquire illicit benefit is called corruption. Corruption is a big problem in many countries and governments design different policies to curb it. According to one of the proposed policies (sometimes called the Basu proposal), the governmen
In Moscow, there exists a restaurant chain that uses the following pricing mechanism. A consumer must pay some entrance fee, after that they can order whatever they want for the price that is equal to the cost of ingredients. The price of an entry ticket depends on the time of the day (being higher
