4) The table below contains hypothetical data for country A for the year 2010. Country A’s Goods and Services Total
Household purchases of durable goods $1293
Household purchases of nondurable goods $1717
Household purchases of services $301
Household purchases of new housing $704
Purchases of capital equipment $310
Inventory changes $374
Purchases of new structures $611
Depreciation $117
Salaries of government workers $1422
Government expenditures on public works $553
Transfer payments $777
Foreign purchases of domestically produced goods $88
Domestic purchases of foreign goods $120

Refer to the Table above to answer the following questions.
a. What was country A’s GDP in 2010?
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b. What was country A’s consumption in 2010?
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c. What was country A’s investment in 2010?
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d. What were country A’s government purchases in 2010?
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e. What were country A’s exports and imports in 2010? What was the net export in 2010?
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Suppose a firm faces a fixed price of output, 푝푝= 1200. the firm hires workers from a union at a daily wage, 푤푤, to produce output according to the production function 푞푞= 2퐸퐸12. there are 225 workers in the union. any union worker who does not work for this firm is guaranteed to find nonunion employment at a wage of $96 per day. a.what is the firm’s labor demand function? b.if the firm is allowed to choose 푤푤, but then the union decides how many workers to provide (up to 225) at that wage, what wage will the firm set? how many workers will the union provide? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? c.now suppose that the union sets the wage, but the firm decides how many workers to hire at that wage (up to 225). what wage will the union set to maximize the total income of all 225 workers? how many workers will the firm hire? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? [hint: to maximize total income of union, take the first order condition with respect to w and set equal to 0.]

While cell phones with holographic keyboards are currently in the introduction stage of the industry life cycle, tablet computers are in the growth stage. in the context of this scenario, which of the following statements is true? a. the industry for cell phones with holographic keyboards will face greater competition than the tablet industry. b. while the industry for cell phones with holographic keyboards will focus more on product innovation, the tablet industry will focus more on process innovation. c. while the industry for cell phones with holographic keyboards can reap the benefits of economies of scale, the tablet industry will experience no such benefits. d. the industry for cell phones with holographic keyboards will face price competition, whereas, in the tablet industry, the mode of competition will be non-price.

Which of the following is correct? a. a tax burden falls more heavily on the side of the market that is more elastic.b. a tax burden falls more heavily on the side of the market that is less elastic.c. a tax burden falls more heavily on the side of the market that is closer to unit elastic.d. a tax burden is distributed independently of the relative elasticities of supply and demand.