A New Online Auction Site Specializes in Selling Automotive Parts

question 41

Essay

A new online auction site specializes in selling automotive parts for classic cars. The founder of the company believes that the price received for a particular item increases with its age (i.e., the age of the car on which the item can be used in years) and with the number of bidders. The Excel multiple regression output is shown below.
-(A) Estimate a multiple regression model for the data.
(B) Which of the variables in this model have regression coefficients that are statistically different from 0 at the 5% significance level?
(C) Given your findings in (B), which variables, if any, would you choose to remove from the model estimated in (A)? Explain your decision.

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Definitions:

Average Cost

The total cost of production divided by the quantity of output produced; it's a measure of how much it costs, on average, to produce one unit of output.

Deadweight Loss

A situation in economics where the total of consumer and producer surplus is not maximized due to factors like taxes or subsidies.

Monopoly Output

The quantity of goods or services produced and offered for sale by a monopolist, set to maximize profits under conditions of limited competition.

Competitive Output

The level of output at which a firm in a competitive market maximizes its profits, determined by the intersection of the industry's supply and demand curves.