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Mgr Econ – Week 4 – And Talk Problems

On Monday we will have the talk by Ruth Cervantes and Lauren Mish, on Problems 3-18 and 3-19 from chapter 3.  but they bought the old book, so it isn’t the same.

The problems they will be working are here.  Ch 3 Questions for Talk

I suggest you read and try to solve them.  the questions I had suggested were 3-21 and 3-22 from the 4th edition. You could try to work them also.

We will spend most of this week on chapter 4.  I am looking for a team of two to speak on Friday, doing a couple of problems from the end of chapter 4.  If I do not get a volunteer team by email this weekend, I will select a team on Monday at the start of class. 

Mgr Econ – Week 3

This week I plan to complete Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.  The key things in Chapter 4 are elasticity, and the idea of modeling demand.  I will show some example spreadsheets on how to determine demand functions.  These are good exercises with using the regression capability in excel.

We will try to work a problem or two also.

Next week on Friday I would like to have a team nominee for the lecture.  You can meet with me and select a problem to work.  It should be from Chapter 3.  If no one volunteers Monday I will simply make the selection, so we can be sure it will happen next Friday.

Some Price Elasticities of Demand

Here are some from a report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. They got them from elsewhere. they modeled demand for public and private schools and were trying to show that having “charter” schools would not hurt the economics of public schools very much.

Elasticities

Source: Economics: Private and Public Choice, James D. Gwartney and Richard L. Stroup, eighth edition
1997, seventh edition 1995; primary sources: Hendrick S. Houthakker and Lester D. Taylor, Consumer
Demand in the United States, 1929-1970 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966,1970); Douglas R.
Bohi, Analyzing Demand Behavior (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981); Hsaing-tai Cheng
and Oral Capps, Jr., “Demand for Fish” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, August 1988; and
U.S. Department of Agriculture.