Economics Answers

A consumer has 150ph to spend on 2 goods. Discuss/Explain how he is going to attain his consumer equilibrium with the interplay of his budget and his level of satisfaction

How is the pandemic,covid-19 greatly affects our country in terms of the following

a.)prices of goods & service

b.)selling modalities

c.) consumer behavior

A producer, in order to maximize his level of production must consider 2 major factors. Given a 2 resources: labor and capital, what must he take into account to attain a certain level of production. How is producer's equilibrium obtained? Explain.

A consumer has 150ph to spend on 2 goods. Discuss/Explain how he is going to attain his consumer equilibrium with the interplay of his budget and his level of satisfaction

How FED fund rate influences on real interest rate, output, and inflation ?

Consider the following autoregressive (AR(2) ) process. Determine if it is stationary.

Yt = 0.37Yt-1+ 0.49Yt-2+ ut

where ut

is a White noise.

. Layla desires to form an investment portfolio by using the following stocks. The four stocks’ returns, and variance-covariance matrix are given as follows.

Stock

Return %

Stock

Return %

Var-Cov

X

Y

Z

V

X

8

X

25

20

-13.5

30

Y

10

Y

20

64

7.2

24

Z

15

Z

-13.5

7.2

81

-18

V

18

V

30

24

-18

100

Assume short selling is allowed.

a) Calculate the expected return and standard deviation of an equally weighted portfolio of the four stocks.

b) What weight combinations will give the minimum standard deviation portfolio? What are the expected return and standard deviation of that portfolio?

c) If Layla desires 16% rate of return, what weight combinations give that? What is the minimum standard deviation of that portfolio?  

Consider the following functional relations between x and y.

Y = (2x² – 6x-20)²

a) at what values of x will the function have zero slope?

b) identify whether those zero slope points are maximum or minimum values of the function.

Explain any five characteristics of an oligopoly

Identify and explain any five characteristics of a monopoly