Category: Economics


  • Develop at least one hypothesis (i.e., an educated guess), which needs to meet the following criteria: Your proposed hypothesis is related to marketing. For example, it can be related to an important or interesting marketing problem, contradictory marketing findings, or contradictory marketing ideas being promoted in the business or popular press or social media. Your…

  • 1. Watch the video “Sales Management.” Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of personal selling when compared to other forms of marketing communications. Discuss the role a sales manager plays in improving the overall performance of sales people Sales Management – YouTube 2. View “The Global Environment for Marketing.” As the marketer for Create Cookbooks, you…

  • In 2019 the country of Farland has a current account deficit of $900 million.Farland’s capital account is in a $100 million surplus.In addition, Farland factors located in foreign countries earn $600 million.Farland has a trade deficit of $400 million.Assume that Farland neither gives nor receives unilateral transfers.Farland’s GDP is $8 billion.   What happen to…

  • This exercise gives you the freedom to take what you have learned about tax policy this week and apply it to the tax of your choice. You will assess the tax you choose, and make an argument for either retaining the tax as is, or for reforming it. Directions:Pick a tax, any tax! It may…

  • The Persuasiveness of the Use of IRFs Questions Read the VOX article “Pushing on a String: U.S. Monetary Policy is Less Powerful During Recessions,” by Sylvana Tenreyro and Gregory Thwaites, which can be found here: http://voxeu.org/article/monetary-policy-weaker-recessions This article’s main exhibits are impulse response functions. These IRFs are obtained using vector autoregressions (VARs), but you already…

  • Finance and Economics in Health Care Essay   Georgia State University Finance and Economics in Health Care Essay   What would be your argument supporting tariffs? Address the concepts below within your essay submission.   Define specific tariff, ad valorem tariff, and compound tariff.   Explain how a tariff affects the welfare of a small…

  • Economics Citizens and Residents Discussion 1. Late in the tax year, the Polks come to you for tax advice. They are considering selling some stock investments for a loss and making a contribution to a traditional IRA. In reviewing their situation, you note that they have large medical expenses and a casualty loss (in a…

  • Economics Journal Alcohol and Alcoholism Essay It is generally assumed that alcohol consumption tends to make drinkers more impulsive. However, a recent study in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism may contradict this assumption. The study took a random sample of 76 male undergraduate students and divided them into three groups. One group remained sober; the…

  • The HR department is trying to fill a vacant position for a job with a small talent pool. Valid applications arrive every week or so, and the applicants all seem to bring different levels of expertise. For each applicant, the HR manager gathers information by trying to verify various claims on resumes, but some doubt…

  • Trucks at a single platform weigh-bridge arrive according to Poisson probability distribution. The time required to weigh the truck follows an exponential probability distribution. The mean arrival rate is 12 trucks per day, and the mean service rate is 18 trucks per day. Determine the following: 1. What is the probability that no trucks are…