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    Economic Appraisal of a Project

    I wanted to know if I am proceeding correctly with the analysis of the attached project especially with regard to the questions highlighted in yellow. I feel that I am making too many mistakes in the calculations. Please see the attached documents. Thank you.

    Finding the efficient level of abatement

    Given a table of info with level of abatement in percent, total cost in dollars, and total benefit in dollars how do you identitfy what the most efficient level of abatement is by general economic criteria? with this data how do you perform the cost benefit test to tell if at a given percentage level abatement is effiecient?

    Conventional & Modified Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR)

    LA Transportation is considering investing in new buses. The first cost of these new buses is $20 million. This cost will be spread equally over a 4-year period and paid at the beginning of the first year. These new buses will bring in initial revenue of $2.5 million, and revenue will increase by $0.75 million each year till the

    Bonus plan/benefits vs. costs

    Your company currently has a bonus plan for its sales managers. If annual sales for a manager's unit exceed $1 million, the manager receives a $10,000 bonus. In a typical year, about 5 of the 10 managers in the firm meet the target and receive the bonus. However, the number receiving the bonus varies from year to year due to

    Cost Benefit Analysis of Purchasing Life Insurance

    AN ENGINEER RECEIVED BY MAIL THE PROMOTION SHOWN BELOW FROM A LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.HE HAS A NEW BORN CHILD AND WOULD LIKE TO INSURE THE CHILD,BUT DOES NOT KNOW THE OPTIMUM CHILD AGE AND THE BEST COVERAGE AMOUNT HE SHOULD SIGN UP FOR. HE NOTICES THAT THE MONTHLY PREMIUM STAYS THE SAME FOR EACH AGE GROUP SO THAT IT COULD BE LES

    Use a AA-DD diagrammatic analysis? And other questions..

    Use the AA-DD diagrammatic analysis to perform the following. Assume a flexible exchange rate regime. Label your graphs and your changes clearly. a)Compare the short-run impacts if a permanent increase in money supply versus a permanent tax cut. Keep in mind that a permanent policy alters people's expectations, which in tu

    Synopsis of Chapter-3 of the textbook - Economics:The Essentials

    How the hypothesis of diminishing marginal utility is used to explain both the demand curve's negative slope and consumer surplus - a central concept in benefit-cost analysis; How small user charges can generate both large resource savings and small reductions in household utility; and How supply and demand analysis is used to