The market for the US is; d=100-20p     s=20+20p

 The market for the rest of the world;  d=180-20p    s=60+20p

Suppose the us government imposes a quota of 22 units on its imports. Calculate the magnitude of the deadweight loss resulting from the quota.

PLEASE help me solve this I would really like to know how befor I have to do an exam.

Thank you so much! 

I'm doing this assignment and I'm totally lost,

U.S. :

d= 200 -40p

s= 40 +40p

Rest of the world:

d= 160 -40p

s= 80 +40p

The U.S. govenment imposes a quota of 32 units on its imports. Calculate the magnitude of deadweight loss resulting from the quota under the assumption that the U.S. is a small open economy?

If anyone knows about this it would great if you could help me out!

I'm doing this assignment and I'm totally lost,

U.S. :

d= 200 -40p

s= 40 +40p

Rest of the world:

d= 160 -40p

s= 80 +40p

The U.S. govenment imposes a quota of 32 units on its imports. Calculate the magnitude of deadweight loss resulting from the quota under the assumption that the U.S. is a small open economy?

If anyone knows about this it would great if you could help me out!

Last month I blogged about an SEO project on the keyword phrase "Real Estate Investor Tools" where I was trying to move it up from its Google position of #284 of 33 million pages.

"My 'regular' job is working for a company that does web development with CSS (cascading style sheets) and SEO work (search engine optimization) for their own websites and for their clients. We're working on one website in a particularly challenging and competitive SEO area -- real estate investor tools. There are lots of websites out there all fighting for high rankings with various keywords, and the client has select some they want to conquer.

So here's what I'm doing. I wrote up a case study of what we're up to with trying to improve the search engine rankings for the website MyTurboBidder.com with the keywords below. I've included the latest rankings, and will update things as the project progresses."

Since then, Google has gone through its periodic housecleaning/reshuffling of search results for real estate investor tools. The rankings initially dropped to #472 but after the dust settled began surging upwards again. At today's review, the results are pretty impressive for the big three search engines:

Anyway, here are this week's updates for Real Estate Investor Tools:

• Google: #48 of 2.4 million pages
• Yahoo: #2 of 37 million pages
• MSN: #1 of 4.2 million pages

Updates for Real Estate Investor Tool:

• Google: #29 of 13 million pages
• Yahoo: #1 of 43 million pages
• MSN: #1 of 4.3 million pages

I read an interesting article this morning on the UW Oshkosh website entitled "Publishers: Professor Drive Up Book Prices" that had me laughing out loud.

A regional manager from a major textbook publisher claimed that "the high cost of paper and fuel also contributed to a rise in text prices but said millions of dollars in profits are lost because professors practice book buying." Now I know this manager -- she's a very nice person, but I can't believe that she really believes the profs are at fault here.

A bit of background... A typical sales rep calls on hundreds of professors over the course of a semester, which is probably way too many to give each of them really good sales service and attention. So, the industry practice is the begin the semester selling season by shipping out thousands -- yes, I said thousands -- of free textbooks that their profs might be interested in. These are books that the profs probably haven't asked about, or for. They're just shipped out, thousands of books for free, so the sales reps can subsequently contact the prof and fish for the sale.

The cost of shipping these free books (called desk copies) is factored into the initial pricing decisions. In other words, the textbook publishers know beforehand that they will forego hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales by sending these textbooks out for free.

Now comes the fun part. The prof, who never asked for the book to begin with and may not even think it's any good, gets asked by a third-party book buyer if s/he has any textbooks they want to sell. When was the last time you were in a prof's office? It isn't like they have lots of room for these unwanted books, so they say sure. (They were probably going to be thrown out anyway.)

So suddenly the professors are at fault for cleaning unwanted, unsolicited textbooks out their office?

One of the things I learned in business classes is not to blame your customers for your own problems. It doesn't help you solve anything, and you run the risk of alienating your customers. Perhaps the textbook publishers ought to refresh their business sense with one of their own textbooks.

Hello,

What is the best program to use to graph in economics? I tried using Excell but it does not really work very well for me. Is there any free online graphing program that I cand download?

Thank you!

I'm still not sure how the whole "college-cram" thing works, but if it might give me some help with the Macro project, I figured it's worth a try.

Here is the problem:

Eastland's currency is called the eastmark, and Westland's currency is called westmark. The supply of and demand for eastmark are given as:

Demand=25,000-5000e+50,000(Re-Rw)

Supply=18,500+8,000e-50,000(Re-Rw) where nominal exchange rate e is measured as westmarks per eastmarks, and Re and Rw are the real inerest rates prevailing in Eastland and Westland.

If Re=Rw=0.10 or 10%, what is market equilibrium value of the eastmark?

Any help, pointer, or anything that you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

Trying something different here, so check this out.

My "regular" job is working for a company that does web development with CSS (cascading style sheets) and SEO work (search engine optimization) for their own websites and for their clients. We're working on one website in a particularly challenging and competitive SEO area -- real estate investor tools. There are lots of websites out there all fighting for high rankings with various keywords, and the client has select some they want to conquer.

So here's what I'm doing. I wrote up a case study of what we're up to with trying to improve the search engine rankings for the website MyTurboBidder.com with the keywords below. I've included the latest rankings, and will update things as the project progresses.

As of today (3/22/08):

Google search result for the keyword phrase

Real Estate Investor Tools

finds MyTurboBidder at position #284 of 33 million pages.

Google search result for the keyword phrase

Real Estate Investor Tool

finds MyTurboBidder at position #64 of 5.4 million pages.

 

I lived in Florida for five years and never once attended a spring training game, but have flown here each of the last three years to catch a brief taste of early baseball.

After a long cold(ish) winter, the first glimpse of the green grassy outfield and the ballplayers laughing and working out brings back magic childhood memories. Those memories, of course, are tempered by the guys sitting behind me who talked for four innings about how wine and scotch are made and the histories of Atlantis and Saudi Arabia... I have to wonder why some people bother to come to games at all. 

Game was between the Yanks and Toronto Blue Jays, with the requisite "Oh Canada" and "Star Spangled Banner" sung beforehand. Still seems weird hearing those at a baseball game, kept thinking there should be a Flyers-Canadiens game instead. Also,overheard a beer vendor chastising a Blue Jays fan with: "I don't have any Molsen so quit asking."

Gotta love baseball. 

The two remaining Democratic presidential rivals -- Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama -- are both running on an impassioned platform of change. Both are currently locked in a struggle for the hearts and minds of the Democratic party, and both have been working feverishly to position themselves as the last best hope, our best choice to finally achieve real change.

Where does the change come from?

Clinton is part of the, well, Clintons. Her husband represents a powerful insider block within the Democratic party, whom many describe as the best Democratic president since JFK.

Obama, on the other hand, has the backing of Ted Kennedy -- next to Robert Byrd, the longest sitting Senator currently serving. (He started back in 1962... that's alot of years in the Senate.)

So that's two "change" candidates backed by two of the three or four most influencial and powerful Democrats around.

Where does the change come from?

Both of these candidates, along with Senator McCain (another "change" candidate) are currently serving as US Senators. They've all been a part of the federal government, part of the establishment that all hope to "change" according to their rhetoric. If they were so hot on change, what have they been doing for the past few years?

You could argue, of course, that they were working on their fellow senators and congressmen and trying to push their agendas. Well, it doesn't look like they were able to get very much accomplished. What happens when the winner is no longer a Senator? Do they expect their agendas to get magically passed just because they're President? I mean, if they can't get the job done from inside the Senate, what chance do they have to get it done from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

Every election time, candidates for whatever office trot out speeches laden in rhetoric, empty promises, and thinly veiled scare tactics. They expect us to stampede to their candidacy and sweep them into office, at which point they seemingly forget what they promised and pretty much do what they (or their lobbyists) want.

I'm tired of being part of the voting herd. If you want my vote, you'd better earn it with something substantial. Not rhetoric, not empty promises.

That would be some real change, wouldn't it?