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ECO 550 Managerial Economics & Globalization Midterm Exam Part 1 Answers (Fall 2016)

1. A Real Option Value is:
2. Various executive compensation plans have been employed to motivate managers to make decisions that maximize shareholder wealth. These include:
3. In the shareholder wealth maximization model, the value of a firm’s stock is equal to the present value of all expected future ____ discounted at the stockholders’ required rate of return.
4. Shirking of one’s duties is often encountered in team production settings because
5. The flat-screen plasma TVs are selling extremely well.  The originators of this technology are earning higher profits.  What theory of profit best reflects the performance of the plasma screen makers?
6. Economic profit is defined as the difference between revenue and ____.
7. A change in the level of an economic activity is desirable and should be undertaken as long as the marginal benefits exceed the ____
8. The standard deviation is appropriate to compare the risk between two investments only if
9. The approximate probability of a value occurring that is greater than one standard deviation from the mean is approximately (assuming a normal distribution)
10. Generally, investors expect that projects with high expected net present values also will be projects with
11. The primary difference(s) between the standard deviation and the coefficient of variation as measures of risk are:
12. The ____ is the ratio of ____ to the ____.
13. Those goods having a calculated income elasticity that is negative are called:
14. An increase in each of the following factors would normally provide a subsequent increase in quantity demanded, except:
15. Suppose we estimate that the demand elasticity for fine leather jackets is .7 at their current prices.  Then we know that:
16. Iron ore is an example of a:
17. An income elasticity (Ey) of 2.0 indicates that for a ____ increase in income, ____ will increase by ____.
18. The factor(s) which cause(s) a movement along the demand curve include(s):
19. Marginal revenue (MR) is ____ when total revenue is maximized
20. The constant or intercept term in a statistical demand study represents the quantity demanded when all independent variables are equal to:
21. When using a multiplicative power function (Y = a X1b1 X2b2 X3b3) to represent an economic relationship, estimates of the parameters (a, and the b’s) using linear regression analysis can be obtained by first applying a ____ transformation to convert the function to a linear relationship.
22. Demand functions in the multiplicative form are most common for all of the following reasons except:
23. In which of the following econometric problems do we find Durbin-Watson statistic being far away from 2.0?
24. In regression analysis, the existence of a high degree of intercorrelation among some or all of the explanatory variables in the regression equation constitutes:
25. The estimated slope coefficient (b) of the regression equation (Ln Y = a + b Ln X) measures the ____ change in Y for a one ____ change in X.