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ECO 561 Final Exam Guide(NEW)

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• 1) Suppose that in the clothing market,
  production costs have fallen, but the equilibrium
  price and quantity purchased have both increased.
  Based on this information you can conclude that
• A. the supply of clothing has grown faster than
  the demand for clothing
• B. demand for clothing has grown faster than the
  supply of clothing
• C. the supply of and demand for clothing have
  grown by the same proportion
• D. there is no way to determine what has happened
  to supply and demand with this information

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ECO 561 Final Exam Guide

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• 1) In a market economy the distribution of output
  will be determined primarily by
• A. a social consensus as to what distribution of
  income is most equitable. B.
• consumer needs and preferences. C. the quantities
  and prices of the resources
• that households supply. D. government regulations
  that provide a minimum

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ECO 561 Week 1 DQ 1

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• What kinds of changes in underlying conditions
  can cause the supply and demand curves to shift?
  Give examples and explain the direction in which
  the curves shift.

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ECO 561 Week 1 DQ 2

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• What is price elasticity? Give examples of five
  products whose demand is price elastic, and five
  products whose demand is price inelastic and
  elaborate on the choices you make.

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ECO 561 Week 1 Economic Choice Economic
Decision Making (2 Papers)

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• THIS TUTORIAL CONTAINS 2 PAPERS
• Consider your last vehicle purchase and the
  decision making process you engaged in while
  deciding what vehicle to purchase or if a new
  vehicle was the right decision. While analyzing
  your decision, keep in mind that everything from
  the interest rates to the price of gasoline is
  driven by the economy in one way or another.
• Develop a 1,400-word analysis of your
  decision-making process in which you include the
  following
• Discuss the role of the interest rate and the
  cost of financing on your purchase decision.
  Interest rates are

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ECO 561 Week 1 Individual Assignment Market
Equilibrating Process Paper

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  Process Paper with different course description
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ECO 561 Week 1 Knowledge Check (Quiz)

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• 1. Revenue increases when
• 2. An increase in the price of an inelastic
  good
• 3. Price elasticity of demand increases when
• 4. The purpose of a market in a market
  system is to

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ECO 561 Week 2 DQ 1

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• Cost is a big issue with every company, and
  changing the technology is the biggest cost for
  most companies, how your company was able to cope
  with this problem and maintain the level of
  profit in a very competitive market?
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ECO 561 Week 2 DQ 2

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• Among the types of costs faced by a firm
  (short-run costs, fixed and variable, as well as
  long-run costs), how can technology help firms to
  lower their costs? What are some specific
  examples of how firms have used technology to
  lower costs?
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ECO 561 Week 2 Government Interventions vs.
Market Based Solutions (2 PPT)

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• ECO 561 WEEK 2 GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS VS.
  MARKET BASED SOLUTIONS
• The theory of market economies emphasizes freedom
  of choice and limited government intervention.
  The classic argument for government intervention
  is market failure - the inability of the market
  economy to correct itself from a dysfunctional
  state (such as the Great Depression).
• Examine one case of significant government
  intervention as it relates to your current
  industry of employment or an industry in which
  you are interested in working.
• Examples of intervention programs include, but
  are not limited to

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ECO 561 Week 2 Individual Assignment Market
Equilibration Process Paper

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ECO 561 Week 2 Knowledge Check (Quiz)

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• 1. Purely competitve firms increase total
  revenue by
• 2. What are two ways for a competitve firm
  to determine the optimal level of production,
  that is, the level of production that will
  maximize profit or minimize losses?
• 3. Suppose that a firm determines that its
  marginal revenue is greater than its marginal
  cost, it would be better to
• 4. It is profitable for a firm to continue
  employing additional resources as long as

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ECO 561 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection

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• ECO 561 Week 2 Learning Team Deliverable
• The learning objectives of week 2 were to
  identify production level to maximize profits,
  explain how to balance fixed and variable costs,
  and to apply economic cost concepts in making
  business decisions.

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ECO 561 Week 2 Team Assignment Learning Team
Project Product Pricing Component (Apple)

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• Learning Team Assignment Learning Team Project
  Product Pricing Component
• Select an organization with which you are
  familiar or in which you are interested that
  provides a private good or service. You will want
  to focus on the same firm or organization as you
  work on each Learning Team Project assignment in
  this class as you build the final paper due Week
  6.Examples of good firms to use as a subject
  include Southwest Airlines (a very successful
  airline), Ford (they have not declared
  bankruptcy), Pulte (a

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ECO 561 Week 3 DQ 1

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• Do you think that competition can be counted on
  to discipline the industrial business firms of a
  modern economy? Explain.

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ECO 561 Week 3 DQ 2

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• In your industry, would you support regulation or
  deregulation and why or why not?

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ECO 561 Week 3 Knowledge Check (Quiz)

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• 1. A purely- or perfectly-competitive firm
  would be characterized by which of the following?
• 2. For a purely-competitive firm, price must
  be
• 3. What will excessive or economic profits
  induce for a firm in any industry structure?
• 4. A pure-monopoly firms demand curve is
  also the market demand curve. This kind of firm
  may successfully engage in price discrimination
  to increase its total profit if it

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ECO 561 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection

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• ECO 561 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection/Deliverabl
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• The learning objectives of week 3 were to
  determine pricing strategy to meet organizational
  goals, determine ways to create non price
  barriers to entry based on market structure,
  determine ways to increase product  

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ECO 561 Week 3 Market Structure And Pricing Power

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• ECO 561 WEEK 3 MARKET STRUCTURE AND PRICING POWER
• Select a new, realistic good or service for an
  existing industry, preferably an industry you
  current work in or one in which you are
  interested in working.
• Develop a 1,400-word evaluation of pricing
  strategies available producers of your selected
  product. This will include statements about the
  market structure and the elasticity of demand for
  the product, based on text book principles and
  real world products under development.
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ECO 561 Week 3 Team Assignment Market Structures
Simulation (Apple)

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• Learning Team Assignment Market Structures
  Simulation
• Write a 1,050- to 1,400- word paper where you
  explain the following in the context of the
  simulation. One note these word count figures
  are meant to be a guideline, but feel free to
  exceed this if you find it is necessary to
  adequately provide relevant details and clarify
  important points.

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ECO 561 Week 4 DQ 1

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• How does the Federal Reserve's monetary policy
  affect your industry's, or company's growth?

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ECO 561 Week 4 DQ 2

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• How would you evaluate monetary policy today? Is
  monetary policy contradictory with fiscal policy?
  Why or Why not? Support your analysis with
  examples.

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ECO 561 Week 4 Knowledge Check (Quiz)

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• 1. Business cycles occur when output
• 2. Which of these statements best describes
  a complete individual buisness cycle?
• 3. During the buisness cycle, the period
  between the point at which output reaches a high
  and the point at which it reaches a low is called
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ECO 561 Week 4 Learning Team Project
Macroeconomic Forecast Outline (Apple)

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• Learning Team Assignment Learning Team Project
  Macroeconomic Forecast Outline Prepare a brief
  outline of the Week 5 Learning Team Project
  Macroeconomic Forecast Component in which you
  answer the following questions
• 1. What are the economic indicators for which you
  will be providing forecasts?
• 2. It is important to evaluate the historical
  relationship between variables in order to
  explain how one indicator or variable may impact
  another. With this in mind, what sources will you
  use to obtain historical data for the economic
  indicators that you have selected?

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ECO 561 Week 4 Team Assignment Business Cycles,
Economic Shocks, And Restoring Equilibrium

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• ECO 561 WEEK 4 TEAM ASSIGNMENT BUSINESS CYCLES,
  ECONOMIC SHOCKS, AND RESTORING EQUILIBRIUM
• As a manager, it is important to understand how
  the business cycle affects supply and demand,
  prices, and how economic shocks will impact your
  company's markets, supply chain, and financing.
  The recent collapse of the housing market, the
  near failure of our financial system, the wild
  swings in commodity and stock prices, and the
  deep recession of 2007-2009 provide a virtual
  laboratory for the study of the economic shocks
  and stabilization measures taken to restore
  equilibrium.
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ECO 561 Week 5 DQ 1

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• How does the Federal Reserve's monetary policy
  affect your industry's, or company's growth?

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ECO 561 Week 5 DQ 2

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• How would you evaluate monetary policy today? Is
  monetary policy contradictory with fiscal policy?
  Why or Why not? Support your analysis with
  examples.

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ECO 561 Week 5 Knowledge Check (quiz)

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• 1. The Classical Theory of Asset Prices
  assumes which of the following ideas?
• 2. Economists use two principle interest
  rates normal and real. The purpose of this
  distinction is to
• 3. During periods of incresing inflationary
  pressure, the Federal Reserve should
• 4. What is the increased morak hazard
  associated wuth the too big to fall (TBTF)
  ballouts of the largest of financial institutions?

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ECO 561 Week 5 Learning Team Project
Macroeconomic Forecast Component (Apple)

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•  Learning Team Assignment Learning Team Project
  Macroeconomic Forecast Component
• Include the following in this paper

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ECO 561 Week 5 Team Assignment Comparative And
Absolute Advantage

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• ECO 561 WEEK 5 TEAM ASSIGNMENT COMPARATIVE AND
  ABSOLUTE ADVANTAGE
• Develop a 1,750-word analysis of the
  international economy in which you do the
  following
• Analyze measures of economic growth, and
  comparative and absolute advantage in
  international trade for the following countries
• USA
• China
• Saudi Arabia

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ECO 561 Week 6 Challenges Of Expansion To A
Foreign Location (2 Papers)

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• ECO 561 WEEK 6 CHALLENGES OF EXPANSION TO A
  FOREIGN LOCATION
• Revise your Week 3 economic analysis using the
  feedback provided by your facilitator to evaluate
  the challenges of expanding your company's
  production to a foreign market. This will require
  you to revise previously recommended pricing and
  non-pricing strategies for your company's product
  based on the selected country's economy's stage
  in the business cycle and the projected economic
  conditions. Discuss the evidence that supports
  your recommendations.

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ECO 561 Week 6 DQ 1

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• How much has the growth in international trade
  impacted your company, or industry? Has the
  devaluation of the U.S. dollar impacted your
  company, or industry? Explain

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ECO 561 Week 6 Knowledge Check (Quiz)

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• 1. If the demand is QD 100 10P and there
  is a 1 price increase, then the elasticity of
  demand at p 2 is
• 2. If the absolute value of a demand
  elasticity is less than 1, then
• 3. If the cross-price elasticity is
  negative, then the two goods are
• 4. Under perfect competition, a firm
  maximizes its profit by setting
• 5. In a large city, a good, real-world
  example for perfect competition would be

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ECO 561 Week 6 Team Assignment (Final), (Apple)

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• Learning Team Assignment
• Complete the Learning Team Project that contains
  the following elements
• Present the viability of the selected good or
  service, considering the demand cost, market
  conditions, and economic conditions.

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