A Microeconomist Wants to Determine How Corporate Sales Are Influenced

question 54

Multiple Choice

A microeconomist wants to determine how corporate sales are influenced by capital and wage spending by companies.She proceeds to randomly select 26 large corporations and record information in millions of dollars.A statistical analyst discovers that capital spending by corporations has a significant inverse relationship with wage spending.What should the microeconomist who developed this multiple regression model be particularly concerned with?

• A)Randomness of error terms
• B)Collinearity
• C)Normality of residuals
• D)Missing observations

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Definitions:

Midpoint Method

A technique used in economics to calculate the elasticity of a variable, using the average of initial and final values as reference points.

Unit Elastic

Describes a situation where the change in quantity demanded or supplied is exactly proportional to the change in price.

Midpoint Method

A method employed in economics for determining demand or supply elasticity through calculating the mean of the initial and final prices and quantities.

Price Elasticity

A measure of how much the quantity demanded or supplied of a good or service changes in response to a change in its price.