Microeconomics, business and finance homework help

Assignment 1

Resources: Principles of Microeconomics, Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6.

Prepare an 875-word research paper as part of a marketing research committee for your organization about current microeconomic thought and theory.

Identify the fundamental lessons the Ten Principles of Economics teaches regarding:

• How people make decisions

• How people interact

• How the economy works as a whole

Explain the following to help the committee members understand how markets work:

• How society manages its scarce resources and benefits from economic interdependence.

• Why the demand curve slopes downward and the supply curve slopes upward.

o Where the point of equilibrium is and what does it determine?

• The impact of price controls, taxes, and elasticity on changes in supply, demand and equilibrium prices.

Format consistent with APA guidelines.

Assignment 2

Scenario: Imagine you have been assigned the responsibility of preparing a paper for the governor’s next economic conference.

Prepare a 1,050-word paper addressing the following:

• Explain why equilibrium of supply and demand is desirable.

• Explain the following concepts using the concept of consumer and producer surplus:

o Efficiency of markets

o Costs of taxation

o Benefits of international trade

• Discuss how externalities may prevent market equilibrium and the various governments policies used to remedy the inefficiencies in markets caused by externalities.

• Analyze the difference between the efficiency of a tax system and the equity of a tax system as it refers to the costs imposed on taxpayers using the benefits principles.

Cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources, not including your textbook.

Format consistent with APA guidelines.

Assignment 3

Scenario: You have been given the responsibility of working with your organization’s CEO to do a competitive market analysis of the potential success of one of their existing products.

Research an organization and a product produced by that organization in which an analysis can be conducted.

Write a 1,750-word analysis of the current market conditions facing your product, making sure you address the following topics:

• Define the type of market in which your selected product will compete, along with an analysis of competitors and customers.

• Analyze any comparative advantages and international trade opportunities.

• Explain the factors that will affect demand, supply, and prices of that product.

• Examine factors that will affect Total Revenue, including but not limited to:

o Price elasticity of demand

o Factors that influence productivity

o Various measures of costs, including opportunity costs

o Externalities and government public policy and their effect on marginal revenue and marginal cost

• Recommend how your organization can maximize their profit-making potential and increase their presence within the market served by the product.

Cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources from the University Library.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Assignment 4

Scenario: You have been asked to assist your organization’s marketing department to better understand how consumers make economic decisions.

Write a 1,050-word analysis including the following:

• The impact the theory of consumer choice has on:

o Demand curves

o Higher wages

o Higher interest rates

• The role asymmetric information has in many economic transactions.

• The Condorcet Paradox and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem in the political economy.

• People are not rational in behavior economics.

Cite a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources not including your textbook.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

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