Consider a perfectly competitive barley producing sector in Western Canada with increasing costs and assume its output is a normal good. The barley producing sector in Western Canada is currently in ong-run equilibrium. The Canadian economy now goes into a recession and average incomes decline. The result will be Multiple Cholce a decrease in output but not In the price of the product negative. an Increase in output and in the price of the product. a decrease in output, and In the price of the product. an Increase In the output, but not in the price of the product.

A country’s gini co-efficient was 0.46 last year and is now 0.48. What can we infer from the change? What would it mean if a country had a co-efficient of 0 or 1?

Governments often require people to obtain insurance; for example, all drivers are required to carry auto insurance to cover damages to others in the event of a crash. Homeowners are often required by banks to carry insurance on their home.  (a) Why do these requirements exist?    (b) Would they be necessary if people truly recognized the risk they faced?    (c) One characteristic of an overconfident person is that she is continually surprised when what she thought was unlikely or

In October 2015, amid rising fears about the security of credit card transactions, financial institutions and businesses made the transition to using chip cards. Unlike the quick swipe of a magnetic stripe on the back of traditional credit and debit cards, chip cards have to be left inside the terminal while the embedded chip verifies the transaction. While there is no consistent method for measuring transaction speed, news agencies report average chip speeds of anywhere from 8 seconds to 13 seconds. The switch to chip readers was precarious, with many businesses taping over the chip card slots in the terminals until the kinks were worked out. Even after a year, some businesses still could not process chips and continued to utilize the magnetic stripe for transactions. Financial institutions thought the additional security benefits of the chips would overshadow the added wait times. Yet a survey conducted by Harbortouch, a leading point-of-sale company, in 2016 showed that nearly four…

In a given community, the unemployment rate is 3.1% and their working-age population is 1.2 Million. Labor force participation was 92% in this community in December of 2009.  In January 2010, this community takes in 80,000 refugees, 65,000 of which are working-age adults. All working-age refugees will be looking for a job in January and if they cannot find one will continue to look until they do. If 70% of the refugees start a new job in January,  what will be the Unemployment rate in this community in February 1st? ( Please round your answer to include 2 decimal places, do not include the percent sign in the answer. That is, If you find 8.33333% is the new unemployment rate, input your answer as 8.33)