Firm a produces gadgets. the price of gadgets is $2 each. firm a has total fixed costs of $1,000,000 and variable costs of $1 per gadget. the corporate tax rate is 40%. if the economy is strong, the firm will sell 2,000,000 gadgets. if the economy enters a recession, the firm will sell only half as many gadgets. if the economy enters a recession, the after-tax profit of firm a will be

You are the new chief information officer for the video-game developer, necturus games. the company has recently undergone a major expansion of its primary product, and you must staff up the is department and determine the best way to develop new game "capsules" for the game, "escape velocity."

There are three factors that can affect the shape of the treasury yield curve (r* t , ip t , and mrp t ) and five factors that can affect the shape of the corporate yield curve (r* t , ip t , mrp t , drp t , and lp t ). the yield curve reflects the aggregation of the impacts from these factors. suppose the real risk-free rate and inflation rate are expected to remain at their current levels throughout the foreseeable future. consider all factors that affect the yield curve. then identify which of the following shapes that the us treasury yield curve can take. check all that apply. a. downward-sloping yield curveb. upward-sloping yield curvec. inverted yield curve

Plastic and steel are substitutes in the production of body panels for certain automobiles. if the price of plastic increases, with other things remaining the same, we would expect: a) the demand curve for plastic to shift to the left. b) the price of steel to fall. c) the demand curve for steel to shift to the left d) nothing to happen to steel because it is only a substitute for plastic. e) the demand curve for steel to shift to the right