... inflow).Finance has to do with correctly dealing with this time dimension of cash flows. Principle 4: Know how to compute the cost of financial alternatives Financial alternatives are often bewildering: ... financial equivalent of this hackneyed expression is: Diversify the assets you hold; don't hold just a few stocks or bonds- buy a porfolio. Simmon Benninga, Principles...
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... One of the Ten Principles of Economics highlighted in Chapter 1 is that trade can make everyone better off. This principle explains why people trade with their neighbors and why nations trade with ... I’ll produce 24 pounds of meat and 2 pounds of potatoes. After I give you 3 pounds of meat in exchange for 1 pound of potatoes, I’ll have 21 pounds of meat and 3 pounds of...
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Tài liệu Ten Principles of Economics - Part 6 pdf
... pound of potatoes costs the rancher 8 pounds of meat, 1 pound of meat costs the rancher 1/8 pound of potatoes. Similarly, because 1 pound of potatoes costs the farmer 1/2 pound of meat, 1 pound of ... opportunity cost of producing 1 pound of meat is 2 pounds of potatoes. Explain why the rancher’s opportunity cost of producing 1 pound of meat is 1/8 pound of potatoes....
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Tài liệu Ten Principles of Economics - Part 7 pptx
... young to experiment with other harmful substances. Most studies of the data are consistent with this view: They find that lower cigarette prices are associated with greater use of marijuana. In ... competitive? DEMAND We begin our study of markets by examining the behavior of buyers. Here we con- sider what determines the quantity demanded of any good, which is the amount of...
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Tài liệu Ten Principles of Economics - Part 8 pdf
... quantity of ice cream you are willing to produce and offer for sale? Here are some possible answers. Price The price of ice cream is one determinant of the quantity supplied. When the price of ice ... MARKET FORCES OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND 77 MARKET SUPPLY VERSUS INDIVIDUAL SUPPLY Just as market demand is the sum of the demands of all buyers, market supply is the sum of the suppli...
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Tài liệu Ten Principles of Economics - Part 9 pdf
... sailor with elasticity a measure of the responsiveness of quantity demanded or quantity supplied to one of its determinants price elasticity of demand a measure of how much the quantity demanded of ... dramatically alter the number of times they go to the doctor, although they might go somewhat less often. By contrast, when the price of sailboats rises, the quantity of sai...
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Tài liệu Ten Principles of Economics - Part 10 ppt
... his health, sailboats might be a necessity with inelastic demand and doctor visits a luxury with elastic demand. Availability of Close Substitutes Goods with close substitutes tend to have more ... percentage change in the price of the second good price elasticity of supply a measure of how much the quantity supplied of a good responds to a change in the price of that good,...
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Tài liệu Ten Principles of Economics - Part 11 pdf
... THE P RICE E LASTICITY OF S UPPLY C AN V ARY . Because firms often have a maximum capacity for production, the elasticity of supply may be very high at low levels of quantity supplied and very low at high levels of ... Concepts 1. Define the price elasticity of demand and the income elasticity of demand. 2. List and explain some of the determinants of the price elasticity of...
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Tài liệu Ten Principles of Economics - Part 12 docx
... energy crisis of the 1970s, too, was blamed on na- ture’s niggardly supply of oil, but in fact it was the actions of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, com- bined with price controls, ... legion of wealthy movie stars, doctors, and stock brokers paying a pittance for palatial dwellings in the more fashionable neighborhoods of Manhattan. Some of these tales were...
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