BUSI510 Week 2 Assignment

Instructions

Answer the following questions in your text and submit the answers and any supporting spreadsheets to the Week Two Dropbox. Your responses must show depth and breadth of the applied economic concepts.

Application Question 6, page 85

Why would we expect that the price elasticity of demand for the product of an individual firm would typically be greater than the price elasticity of demand for the product overall? Illustrate your answer with examples from this chapter.

Application Question 3, page  112

In multiple regression analysis, explain why the typical hypothesis that analysts want to test is whether a particular regression coefficient (B) is equal to zero (H0: B = 0) versus whether that coefficient is not equal to zero.