Two firms, Boomburgs and ABC X-Plode, both sell the same fireworks bundle. If they sell their fireworks at the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP), they both sell 100 units a day. Each pays $12 per unit sold to the wholesaler in order to stock its shelves. If either firm sells below MSRP while the other sells at MSRP, the firm with the lower price sells 175 units a day and the firm charging MSRP sells only 50. If both firms sell below MSRP, then each firm sells 125 units a day.
If MSRP is $20 and the below MSRP price is $15, calculate the following payoffs: Profit for ABC X-Plode when both firms charge MSRP: Profit for ABC X-Plode when it charges MSRP but Boomburgs charges below MSRP: $ Profit for ABC X-Plode when it charges below MSRP but Boomburgs charges MSRP: $ Profit for ABC X-Plode when both firms charge below MSRP: $

Lincoln company has an accounting policy for internal reporting purposes whereby the costs of any research and development projects that are over 70 percent likely to succeed are capitalized and then depreciated over a five-year period with a full year of depreciation in the year of capitalization. in the current year, $400,000 was spent on project one, and it was 55 percent likely to succeed, $600,000 was spent on project two, and it was 65 percent likely to succeed, and $900,000 was spent on project three, and it was 75 percent likely to succeed. in converting the internal financial statements to external financial statements, by how much will net income for the current year have to be reduced? a. $180,000b. $380,000c. $720,000d. $900,000

5. profit maximization and shutting down in the short run suppose that the market for polos is a competitive market. the following graph shows the daily cost curves of a firm operating in this market. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 price (dollars per polo) quantity (thousands of polos) mc atc avc for each price in the following table, calculate the firm's optimal quantity of units to produce, and determine the profit or loss if it produces at that quantity, using the data from the previous graph to identify its total variable cost. assume that if the firm is indifferent between producing and shutting down, it will produce. (hint: you can select the purple points [diamond symbols] on the previous graph to see precise information on average variable cost.) price quantity total revenue fixed cost variable cost profit (dollars per polo) (polos) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) 12.50 135,000 27.50 135,000 45.00 135,000 if the firm shuts down, it must incur its fixed costs (fc) in the short run. in this case, the firm's fixed cost is $135,000 per day. in other words, if it shuts down, the firm would suffer losses of $135,000 per day until its fixed costs end (such as the expiration of a building lease). this firm's shutdown price—that is, the price below which it is optimal for the firm to shut down—is per polo.

Why is efficiency an important economic goal?