Connors Bros., a Maritime seafood products manufacturer, hopes to attract Ontario consumers for its Brunswick sardines through a campaign pushing the small fish as a positive food choice. In the campaign, Conner encouraged consumers to buy more sardines. If consumers purchased more sardines, then supermarkets would stock more sardines, thus creating for the small fish.

Bayside began 2014 with an inventory t-account debit balance of $155,000. inventory purchases during the year amounted to $75,000. there were no inventory-related write-downs or losses. what is its december 31, 2014, inventory account balance?

You have just received notification that you have won the $2.0 million first prize in the centennial lottery. however, the prize will be awarded on your 100th birthday (assuming you're around to collect), 66 years from now. what is the present value of your windfall if the appropriate discount rate is 8 percent?

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.