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skymedlock

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Suppose Canon Inc decided to invest 45 billion yen in developing and launching a new model of its digital camera, expecting that it will bring additional sales of 60 billion yen.
 
  The company has already invested 38 billion yen when the marketing department suddenly finds out that the introduction of a similar camera by Sony will reduce Canon's expected additional sales to 30 billion yen. The company's management is trying to decide whether to continue investing in the new product or close the project. Canon hires you as an economic consultant. So, think like an economist to help the company's management make their decision: a) At this point in time, what is Canon's marginal cost of introducing the new product? b) What is Canon's marginal benefit from introducing the new product? c) Will you advise Canon to finish the project and introduce the new product? Why or why not? What principles of economic thinking will help you analyze the situation and make the right choice?

Question 2

A country produces only pencils and erasers. Pencil production is allocatively efficient if the marginal ________ of a pencil equals the marginal ________ of ________.
 
  A) cost; benefit; an eraser
  B) cost; cost; an eraser
  C) benefit; benefit; an eraser
  D) benefit; cost; a pencil



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dellikani2015

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Answer to Question 1

a) Canon's marginal cost is the additional investment needed to finish the project, which is 7 billion yen.
b) Canon's marginal benefit is the benefit that arises from the new product, the additional revenue from sales, which in the changed situation is expected to be 30 billion yen.
c) The principle of choosing at the margin will hel

Answer to Question 2

D





 

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