Evaristi Paulo

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The following regression equation for quantity supplied was estimated using a sample of fiftyobservations. Q= 2.2 + 0.104P. (3.4) (0.005) Standard errors are in the brackets. The total sum of squares was 132 and the residual sum of squares was 19.5. a)Est...

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Suppose the MU decides to model students’ GPA as a linear function of time spent in lectures (T) in hours, such that GPAi = α + βTi + µi. Where, µ is a disturbance term. The results of the estimated model were as follows, but some of them were lost due to...

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Assume that you in charge of the Central Bank (BOT). You are given the following information on macro economic variable, quantity of money (M) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in million (TShs) Year1990199119921993199419951996199719981999 M910871045567 GD...

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The following table gives information on ages and cholesterol levels for a random sample of 10 men. Age58694339635247317436 Cholesterol level189235193177154191213165198181 a. Taking age as an independent variable and cholesterol level as a dependent varia...

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How to test hypothesis

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Explain the concept of contractionary fiscal policy and expansionary fiscal policy on: a)Aggregate demand b)Consuption

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Explain the concept of contractionary fiscal policy and expansionary fiscal policy on: a)Purchesing power b)Inflation c)Fiscal deficit

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Limitation of fiscal policy

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What are the Objective of fiscal policy

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What is discretionary fiscal policy

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What is Neutral fiscal policy

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Graphically explain tax incidences (who bears the burden)under the following scenarios: a)Perfect inelastic demand curve and normal supply curves b)Perfect elastic demand curve and normal supply curves c)Perfect inelastic supplycurve and normal demand cur...

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Write short note on the typology of fiscal policy and explain how can fisical policybe used to stimulate the economy.

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Distinguish between fiscal and monetary policy?

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Critically explain objectives and tools of fiscal policy?

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a)DistinguishbetweenMarket Failureand Government Failure? b)Write short notes on thecauses of market failure, and suggest ways of overcoming it.

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a)DistinguishbetweenMarket Failureand Government Failure?

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b)Write short notes on the causes of market failure, and suggest ways of overcoming it.

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Write short notes on types of externalities and their implication

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What are the causes of market failure and how can one solve them?

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Think of one of the problems of negative externality in either the use or the supply of impure public goods that you have experienced/ witnessed in Tanzania. By using the theory of public goods and externalities, give an analysis of the problem and a disc...

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Write short notes on the implicationof theCoase Theoremin Tanzania context.

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The amount of tax revenues collected across countries depends mainly on the nature and types of taxes.With explain different types of taxes that are used in Tanzania.

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The use of indirect tax has been applauded to be good in increasing tax revenues, however it has received several critics from different economists. Kindly explain the basis of these critics and their implications.

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Considering that you have wider knowledge in taxation, the Ministry of Finance and Planning assigned you a task to evaluate the performance theTanzania revenue Authority (TRA)and its taxation system. What criteria willyou consider to provide your evaluati...

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Write short notes on the causes of the ongoing outcry in developing countries following poor performanceof the tax revenues. What should be done?

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Discuss the usefulness and limitationof various tax rates systems in most of the developing countries. Use Tanzania as a case study.

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Who bears the burden under the following scenarios: a)Perfect inelastic demand curve and normal supply curves b)Perfect elastic demand curve and normal supply curves

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Graphically explain tax incidences (who bears the burden)under the following scenarios: a)Perfect inelastic supplycurve and normal demand curves b)Perfect inelastic supplycurve and normal demand curves c)The demand curve is perfect elastic and tax is impo...

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1. The market demand curve for heroin is said to be highly inelastic. Heroin supply is also said to be monopolized by the Mafia, which we assume to be interested in maximizing profits. Are these two statements consistent?

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The monopolist faces a demand curve given by D(p) = 100 - 2p. Its cost function is c(y) = 2y. What is its optimal level of output and price?

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If D(p) = 100/p and c(y) = y2, what is the optimal level of output of the monopolist? (Be careful.)

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A monopolist is operating at an output level where (€) = 3. The government imposes a quantity tax of $6 per unit of output. If the demand curve facing the monopolist is linear, how much does the price rise?

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If the demand curve facing the monopolist has a constant elasticity of 2, then what will be the monopolist markup on marginal cost?

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The government is considering subsidizing the marginal costs of the monopolist described in the question above. What level of subsidy should the government choose if it wants the monopolist to produce the socially optimal amount of output?

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Show mathematically that a monopolist always sets its price above marginal cost.

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True or false? Imposing a quantity tax on a monopolist will always cause the market price to increase by the amount of the tax.

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Will a monopoly ever provide a Pareto efficient level of output on its own?

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Suppose that a monopolist sells to two groups that have constant elasticity demand curves, with elasticity €1 and €2. The marginal cost of production is constant at c. What price is charged to each group?

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Suppose that the amusement parkowner can practice perfect price discrimination by charging a different price for each ride. Assume that all rides have zero marginal cost and all consumers have the same tastes. Will the monopolist do better charging for ri...

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If Sl (p) = p- 10 and S2(p) = p- 15, then at what price does the industry supply curve have a kink in it?

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If Sl (p) = p- 10 and S2(p) = p- 15, then at what price does the industry supply curve have a kink in it? Use step by step to solve it.

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In the short run the demand for cigarettes is totally inelastic. In the long run, suppose that it is perfectly elastic. What is the impact of a cigarette tax on t,he price that consumers pay in the short run and in the long run?

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True or false? Convenience stores near the campus have high prices because they have to pay high rents.

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True or false? Convenience stores near the campus have high prices because they have to pay high rents with reason's

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True or false? In long-run industry equilibrium no firm will be losing money.

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According to the model presented in this chapter, what determines the amount of entry or exit a given industry experiences?

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In the short run, if the price of the fixed factor is increased, what will happen to profits?

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If a firm had everywhere increasing returns to scale, what would happen to its profits if prices remained fixed and if it doubled its scale of operation

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If a firm had decreasing returns to scale at all levels of output and it divided up into two equal-size smaller firms, what would happen to its overall profits?

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Is maximizing a firm's profits always identical to maximizing the firm's stock market value?

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If pMPl > wl, then should the firm increase or decrease the amount of factor 1 in order to increase profits?

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A profitmaximizing competitive firm that is making positive profits in long-run equilibrium (may/may not) have a technology withconstant returns to scale.

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Prove that a profit-maximizing firm will always minimize costs.

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If a firm is producing where MPlIw1 > MPz/wz, what can it do to reduce costs but maintain the same output?

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If a firm uses n inputs (n > 2), what inequality does the theory of revealed cost minimization imply about changes in factor prices (Awi) and the changes in factor demands (Axi) for a given level of output?

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Which of the following are true? (1) Average fixed costs never increase with output; (2) average total costs are always greater than or equal to average variable costs; (3) average cost can never rise while marginal costs are declining.

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True or false? In the long run a firm always operates at the mini mum level of average costs for the optimally sized plant to produce a given amount of output.

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Utilities function and equitions with the budget constrains

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Condition's for maximizing utility functions

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A short run equilibriam production function is given as Q= X

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A short run equilibriam production function is given as Q= X½ were Q is output and X is input. a) is the production function concave? Show your working

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A short run equilibriam production function is given as Q= X½ were Q is output and X is input. a)Let P represent output price and W represent the input price. Derive the prifit function b)If a legitimate profit function is concave and positively linearlit...

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Clearly distinguish between the following pairs of concepts as used ina economics. a)production possibility set and input requirement set b)price discrimination and multi plant monopolist. c)partial equilibriam and general equilibrium analysis

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Consumer utility function taker the following form. U(X1, X2)=min(aX1, X2) were X is a positive number. a)find consumer demand fuction fo X1 and X2. b)At the optimal choice, how mamy units of X1 will be combined with each unit of X2?

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Consumer utility function taker the following form. U(X1, X2)=min(aX1, X2) were X is a positive number. a)find consumer demand fuction fo X1 and X2, show the step of your working. b)At the optimal choice, how mamy units of X1 will be combined with each un...

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Suppose that consumer has utility function U(X1, X2)=X½,X½. He originally face price (1,1) and has income 100. Then the price of good1 increase to 2. What are the compensating and equivalent variation?

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Suppose that consumer has utility function U(X1, X2)=X½,X½. He originally face price (1,1) and has income 100. Then the price of good1 increase to 2. Calculate how to get compensating and equivalent variation mathematically?

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An agent consumer quantity (X1, X2) of goods 1 and 2. She has utility U(X1, X2)=X½,X½. a) Derive the MRS

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An agent consumer quantity (X1, X2) of goods 1 and 2. She has utility U(X1, X2)=X½,X½. a) Derive the MRS and show your work clearly.

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Suppose that we were given a utility function U(X1,X2)= X²,X² , What do its indifference curves look like?

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If a consumer has a utility function u(x1, x2) = X,X⁴ , what fraction of her income will she spend on good 2?

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Here there are sixteen (16) sentences, one is a core problem, some are effects (major and sub) of the problem and others are causes (major and sub) of the problem. Task...List down the Core problem, causes of the problem and effects of the problemDraw a p...

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Consider the following profit function has been obtained from technology that uses single input. π(P, W)=P²W^B , were P is the output price and W is input price and B is bitter parameter value. a) For which value of bitter parameter the profit function of...

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Answers

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The monopolist faces a demand curve given by D(p) = 200 - p ,Its cost function is c(y) = 2y. What is its optimal level of output and price?

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The following two models were estimated to analyze the demand for chicken around Mzumbe university campus. I.Qc = 43.310 –15.298Pc –9.86Pb + 39.8Pf + 1.87Y. Where Qc = quantity of chicken demanded in 2012. Pc=price ofchicken. Pb = price of beef. Pf = pric...

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Analyse the impacts of the emerging issues on population and development with six points, cite your work and reference

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What is the single name of the Better coeficient's

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How to interpret the OLS reggression equition

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How to interpret the dummy variable models.

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Define the following term. A. Coeficient of determination B. Dummy variable trap C. Probit model D. Logit model

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What are the nature of heteroscedasticiry?

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What is the nature of autocoleration

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What are the nature of dummy variables?

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Mvomero District Council has 500 employees. As a young researcher you want to extract a sample of 100 employees from them using simple random sampling. Explain steps you will follow to come up with this sample size.

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A)If the researcher used table of random numbers in selecting 11 CWT officials fromthe population, which numbers were included in the sample if the selection starts from the 1st row of the table of random numbers below? 6142 4204 1986 5460 0517 9022 2279...

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One of the BSc. Economics students at MzumbeUniversity conducted a study on the “Factors Affecting Performance of Trade Unions in Tanzania and her study was published in the American Journal of Business and Management: Vol. 2, No. 2, 2018, 181-185. The st...

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Differentiate between the following concepts as used in research a)Concepts and variables b)Change variable and outcome variable c)Extraneous and intervening variables d)Active and attribute variables e)Cause variables and control variables f)Theoretical...

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Describe at least three basics for choosing a good research topic

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Briefy explain the procedures you will follow to undertake social science research

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Explain three steps of how to write literature review

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Why is it important to perform univariate data analysis especilly in measures of dispersion

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What is the main purposes of excuting bivariate data analysis particilarly correlation analysis

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Discuss sources of literature review

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What are the main part of literature review inbresearch?

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Why the estimated model include marginal effect estimates?

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Analyse environment as a resource base to human development and survival

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