Show how a fall in the matching efficiency technology can effect output, wages, the unemployment and vacancy rates. How could economists differentiate this from a fall in labor productivity if they could view the four above pieces of data over many years? [In other words, how would these two events produce different patterns in the data?]

The per-unit cost of an item is its average total cost (= total cost/quantity). Suppose that a new cell phone application costs $250,000 to develop and only $0.60 per unit to deliver to each cell phone customer. Instructions: Round your answers to two decimal places. What will be the per-unit cost of the application if it sells 100 units? Per-unit cost = $1 What will be the per-unit cost of the application if it sells 1000 units? Per-unit cost $[ What will be the per-unit cost of the application if it sells 1 million units? Per-unit cost $

In economics there is the Law of Diminishing Returns.  With respect to information on the World Wide Web. do think there could be a Law of Increasing Returns?  Explain.

QUESTION THREE: PRODUCER THEORY 1. Suppose the production function for automobiles is given by q = kl - 0.8k² - 0.21² where q represents the annual quantity of bicycles produced, k represents annual capital input, and I represents annual labor input. a) Suppose k=10; graph the total and average productivity of labor curves. At what level of labor input does this average productivity reach a maximum? How many cars are produced at that point? b) Again, assuming k=10, graph the MP curve. At what level of labor input does MP₁ = 0 c) Suppose capital inputs were increased to k-20. How would your answer to parts (a) and (b) change? d) Does the production of automobiles exhibit constant, increasing, or decreasing returns to scale? 2. Supposing that the firm in (1) is a competitive firm and its production function is y = 10 + (x - 1,000)¹/3. The price of the input x is w = 1. (a) Show that the firm's total cost curve is C(y) = 1,000 + (-10)³. (b) Show that the minimum of the marginal cost curve…

Joe, Tanya, Fred and Susan are old friends from high school, now working in various boring office jobs in the city. One night, Susan invites everyone to her house for dinner and a chat. During dinner, and while the 4 friends were complaining about how much they hated their jobs, they start throwing some ideas around for starting their own business. At one point, they tell each other: “Man, as soon as this business makes money, I’m quitting my office job. We are going to be rich!”   The 4 friends agree to start a cupcake business together. They are very excited and start writing down a business structure on a napkin. It reads: “Susan and Fred will do the baking and decorating, Joe and Tanya will do the paperwork side of things including booking market stalls, asking Bunnings if they can sell cupcakes on Sat mornings, create a Facebook page & website for the business and manage the money side of things.” They also agree that they would split all profits and losses evenly.   For the…

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