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In the real business cycle model, where prices are fully flexible, an increase in aggregate demand: increases the inflation rate and the growth rate of real GDP. increases the inflation rate but not the growth rate of real GDP. decreases the inflation rate and increases the growth rate of real GDP. decreases the inflation rate but not the growth rate of real GDP.

Answer: In the real business cycle model, prices are fully flexible and an increase in aggregate demand will decrease the inflation rate and increase the growth rate of real GDP. What is a Real Business Cycle Model? A real business

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“Write a detailed and coherent history of the Russian Revolution by discussing the following questions: What caused the Revolution? How did Lenin and the Bolsheviks manage to seize and hold power despite their small numbers? How did the Bolsheviks secure their power during the civil war? What were the results of the Bolshevik seizure of power?”

Summary: The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a period of political and social upheaval, which led to the eventual overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II and the establishment of a communist government led by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. The Revolution

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What is the heat, q , in joules transferred by a chemical reaction to the reservoir of a calorimeter containing 125 g of dilute aqueous solution ( c = 4.184 J g ⋅ ∘ C ) if the reaction causes the temperature of the reservoir to rise from 21.5 ∘ C to 24.5 ∘ C ?

Answer: Heat Transferred by a Chemical Reaction The heat, q, transferred by a chemical reaction to the reservoir of a calorimeter containing 125 g of dilute aqueous solution (c=4.184 J g⋅∘C) can be calculated by using the equation q =

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Consider a country under perfect competition that produces two tradeable goods A and B, both using labor and capital as productive factors, which can move freely from one industry to the other, and imagine that the price of product A doubles (ie increases by +100%) whereas the price of product B stays the same. Assume that the reallocation of productive factors triggered by this price change leads to labor productivity in industry A to halve (ie reduce by 50%) whilst capital productivity in the same industry increases by 50%. imagine that, in addition to tradeable products A and B, there is also a local non-tradeable service (a barber shop) whose cost, before the change in the price of tradable product A, used to breakdown into half (ie 50%) labor compensation and half (ie 50%) rents of capital. Assuming that, after the price change of product A, there is no change in either the volume produced of the non-tradeable good (ie the total number of haircuts sold) nor the degree of labor intensity of the hairdressing industry change (ie the number of hairdresser hours and the space rented as barber shop), what increase or decrease will the price of a haircut experience, in % terms?

Answer: Price Change of a Haircut After Price Change of Tradable Product A The price of a haircut can experience a decrease after the price of tradable product A doubles. This is because the reallocation of productive factors triggered by

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imagine that, in addition to tradeable products A and B, there is also a local non-tradeable service (a barber shop) whose cost, before the change in the price of tradable product A, used to breakdown into half (ie 50%) labor compensation and half (ie 50%) rents of capital. Assuming that, after the price change of product A, there is no change in either the volume produced of the non-tradeable good (ie the total number of haircuts sold) nor the degree of labor intensity of the hairdressing industry change (ie the number of hairdresser hours and the space rented as barber shop), what increase or decrease will the price of a haircut experience, in % terms?

Answer: Price Change of Haircut After Price Change of Tradable Product A The price of a haircut will not experience an increase or decrease after the price change of tradable product A. This is because the cost breakdown of a

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Consider a country under perfect competition that produces two tradeable goods A and B, both using labor and capital as productive factors, which can move freely from one industry to the other, and imagine that the price of product A doubles (ie increases by +100%) whereas the price of product B stays the same. Assume that the reallocation of productive factors triggered by this price change leads to labor productivity in industry A to halve (ie reduce by 50%) whilst capital productivity in the same industry increases by 50%. and imagine that, in addition to tradeable products A and B, there is also a local non-tradeable service (a barber shop) whose cost, before the change in the price of tradable product A, used to breakdown into half (ie 50%) labor compensation and half (ie 50%) rents of capital. Assuming that, after the price change of product A, there is no change in either the volume produced of the non-tradeable good (ie the total number of haircuts sold) nor the degree of labor intensity of the hairdressing industry change (ie the number of hairdresser hours and the space rented as barber shop), what increase or decrease will the price of a haircut experience, in % terms?

Answer: Price of a Haircut After Price Change of Tradeable Product A The price of a haircut after the price of tradeable product A doubles (100% increase) while the price of product B stays the same is expected to decrease.

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onsider a country under perfect competition that produces two tradeable goods A and B, both using labor and capital as productive factors, which can move freely from one industry to the other, and imagine that the price of product A doubles (ie increases by +100%) whereas the price of product B stays the same. Assume that the reallocation of productive factors triggered by this price change leads to labor productivity in industry A to halve (ie reduce by 50%) whilst capital productivity in the same industry increases by 50%. How does this effect the marginal productivity of capital to change in industry B, in % terms?

Answer: Effects of Price Change on Product A and Product B When considering a country under perfect competition that produces two tradeable goods A and B, both using labor and capital as productive factors, a price change of +100% for

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onsider a country under perfect competition that produces two tradeable goods A and B, both using labor and capital as productive factors, which can move freely from one industry to the other, and imagine that the price of product A doubles (ie increases by +100%) whereas the price of product B stays the same. Assume that the reallocation of productive factors triggered by this price change leads to labor productivity in industry A to halve (ie reduce by 50%) whilst capital productivity in the same industry increases by 50%. How does this effect the marginal productivity of labor change in industry B, in % terms?

Answer Marginal Productivity of Labor Change in Industry B When the price of product A doubles and the price of product B stays the same, this will lead to a reallocation of productive factors from industry B to industry A.

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Consider a country under perfect competition that produces two tradeable goods A and B, both using labor and capital as productive factors, which can move freely from one industry to the other, and imagine that the price of product A doubles (ie increases by +100%) whereas the price of product B stays the same. Assume that the reallocation of productive factors triggered by this price change leads to labor productivity in industry A to halve (ie reduce by 50%) whilst capital productivity in the same industry increases by 50%. Under these conditions, by how much will the marginal productivity of labor change in industry B, in % terms?

Answer: Impact of Price Change on Marginal Productivity of Labor in Industry B Under perfect competition, a 100% increase in the price of product A and no change in the price of product B would lead to a 50% decrease

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Consider a country under perfect competition that produces two tradeable goods A and B, both using labor and capital as productive factors, which can move freely from one industry to the other, and imagine that the price of product A doubles (ie increases by +100%) whereas the price of product B stays the same. Assume that the reallocation of productive factors triggered by this price change leads to labor productivity in industry A to halve (ie reduce by 50%) whilst capital productivity in the same industry increases by 50%. Under these conditions, by how much will rent of capital change in this country, in % terms?

Answer: Rent of Capital Increases by 50% The change in rent of capital in the country under perfect competition is an increase of 50%. This is due to the doubling of the price of product A and the halving of

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Consider a country under perfect competition that produces two tradeable goods A and B, both using labor and capital as productive factors, which can move freely from one industry to the other, and imagine that the price of product A doubles (ie increases by +100%) whereas the price of product B stays the same. Assume that the reallocation of productive factors triggered by this price change leads to labor productivity in industry A to halve (ie reduce by 50%) whilst capital productivity in the same industry increases by 50%. Under these conditions, by how much will wages change in this country, in % terms?

Answer: Effects of Doubling Price of Product A on Wages in a Country Under Perfect Competition The doubling of the price of Product A in a country under perfect competition, where labor and capital move freely between the two industries,

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Assuming again that the skills required to work in manufacturing and in tourism are so different that a worker trained for one of these industries cannot possibly move into the other – so that in effect there is no labour mobility between industries (in other words, labour-for-manufacturing and labour-for-tourism become two different factors specific to their own industries, in the same way land is specific to tourism and capital is specific to manufacturing in this model). Under these new conditions, if the price of touristic services increased by 10%, what change would tourism land rents experience, in percentage terms?

Summary: In this answer, I will explain how an increase in the price of touristic services by 10% would affect the rents for tourism land in terms of percentage. What is Tourism Land Rent? Tourism land rent is the price

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Imagine now that the skills required to work in manufacturing and in tourism are so different that a worker trained for one of these industries cannot possibly move into the other – so that in effect there is no labour mobility between industries (in other words, labour-for-manufacturing and labour-for-tourism become two different factors specific to their own industries, in the same way land is specific to tourism and capital is specific to manufacturing in this model). Under these new conditions, if the price of touristic services increased by 10%, what change would tourism wages experience, in percentage terms?

Answer: The Effect of a 10% Increase in the Price of Touristic Services on Tourism Wages When the skills required to work in manufacturing and in tourism are so different that a worker trained for one of these industries cannot

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Consider once more the same specific factors country where the tourism industry has a decreasing marginal labour productivity, whereas in manufacturing the marginal productivity of labour is constant, and assume again that the price of tourism services increases by 25% whereas that of manufacturing stays the same, then how much will wages change, in percentage terms?

Answer: The wages in the tourism industry will decrease by 25%, while wages in manufacturing will remain the same. This is due to the decreasing marginal labour productivity in the tourism industry, and the constant marginal productivity of labour in

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Consider once again the same specific factors country where the tourism industry has a decreasing marginal labour productivity, whereas in manufacturing the marginal productivity of labour is constant, but assume now that the price of tourism services increases by 25% whereas that of manufacturing stays the same, and we also assume that the marginal productivity of land increases by 20% as a result of the additional labour that moves from manufacturing to tourism, then how much will the return on land change, in percentage terms?

Answer: The Return on Land Will Increase by 20% The return on land will increase by 20% when the tourism industry has a decreasing marginal labour productivity and the marginal productivity of labour is constant in manufacturing, and the price

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Consider again this country where the tourism industry has a decreasing marginal labour productivity, whereas in manufacturing the marginal productivity of labour is constant. Under these conditions, if the price of manufacturing products increases by 20% whereas that of tourism stays the same, and assuming the marginal productivity of land drops by 10% as a result of the labour moving from tourism to manufacting, by how much will the return on land change, in percentage terms?

Answer: Changes in Return on Land The return on land will change when the price of manufacturing products increases by 20% while the price of tourism stays the same, and the marginal productivity of land drops by 10% due to

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Consider again this country operating under perfect competition where there are two economic activities, Manufacturing and Tourism, both of which use labour, but where manufacturing has a specific, fixed-supply factor we call capital and tourism has another specific, fixed-supply factor we call land, and assume furthermore that the tourism industry has a decreasing marginal labour productivity, whereas in manufacturing the marginal productivity of labour is constant. Under these conditions, if the price of manufacturing products increases by 20% whereas that of tourism stays the same, how much will nominal wages change, in percentage terms?

Answer Summary Under perfect competition, when the price of manufacturing products increases by 20%, the nominal wages will increase by the same amount, in percentage terms. Supporting Subsections Perfect Competition Perfect competition is an economic model characterized by numerous small

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Consider now a country operating under perfect competition where there are two economic activities, Manufacturing and Tourism, both of which use labour, but where manufacturing has a specific factor (i.e. a factor specific of that particular industry) we call capital and tourism has another specific factor we call land. Assume furthermore that the tourism industry has a decreasing marginal labour productivity, whereas in manufacturing the marginal productivity of labour is constant. In the specific factor model this last assumption suffices to determine the return of the capital invested in manufacturing: how much is this return, in % terms?

Answer: The Return of Capital Invested in Manufacturing in a Perfectly Competitive Economy The return of capital invested in manufacturing in a perfectly competitive economy can be determined by the assumption that the marginal productivity of labour in the manufacturing

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Consider a market operating under monopolistic competition conditions where every company in operation incurs an annual fixed cost of $375,000,000 plus a variable cost of $15,000 per unit of output produced. The demand that every company faces follows the functional form Q = S * (1/N – a * (p – P)) where Q represents the company’s output, S the total demand in the market, N the number of companies operating in it, a is a constant such that a = 1/30,000, p the price that the company charges for each product unit and P the average price the competition charges for a unit of the same product. Imagine that, for this product, the total annual demand in the US is of 450,000 units, whereas in Europe it is of 800,000 units. Assuming no trade can take place between the US and Europe, what will be the long-term price per unit of this product in the US?

Answer: In a market operating under monopolistic competition conditions, the long-term price per unit of a product in the US will be determined by the demand in the US market, the number of companies operating in it, and the average

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Walmart Credit Rating Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is the world’s largest retailer by revenue. As such, the credit rating of the company is closely tracked by market participants

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