You are the manager of blackspot computers, which competes directly with condensed computers to sell high-powered computers to businesses. from the two businesses’ perspectives, the two products are indistinguishable. the large investment required to build production facilities prohibits other firms from entering this market, and existing firms operate under the assumption that the rival will hold output constant. the inverse market demand for computers is p = 5,900 – q and both firms produce at a marginal cost of $800 per computer. currently, blackspot earns revenues of $4.25 million and profits (net of investment, r& d, and other fixed costs) of $890,000. the engineering department at blackspot has been steadily working on developing an assembly method that would dramatically reduce the marginal cost of producing these high-powered computers and has found a process that allows it to manufacture each computer at a marginal cost of $500. how much will this process improve blackspot's profits? (hint: consider solving for the duopoly outcome before and after the change in blackspot's marginal costs.)

Evelyn would like to open a small business that is categorized as a being in the distribution industry. to do this she could open a establishment.

The following account balances at the beginning of january were selected from the general ledger of fresh bagel manufacturing​ company: work in process inventory ​$0 raw materials inventory $ 29 comma 000 finished goods inventory $ 40 comma 900 additional​ data: 1. actual manufacturing overhead for january amounted to $ 62 comma 600. 2. total direct labor cost for january was $ 63 comma 600. 3. the predetermined manufacturing overhead rate is based on direct labor cost. the budget for the year called for $ 255 comma 000 of direct labor cost and $ 382 comma 500 of manufacturing overhead costs. 4. the only job unfinished on january 31 was job no.​ 151, for which total direct labor charges were $ 5 comma 700 ​(1 comma 000 direct labor​ hours) and total direct material charges were $ 14 comma 400. 5. cost of direct materials placed in production during january totaled $ 123 comma 300. there were no indirect material requisitions during january. 6. january 31 balance in raw materials inventory was $ 35 comma 200. 7. finished goods inventory balance on january 31 was $ 35 comma 400. what is the cost of goods manufactured for​ january

Classify each of the following items as a public good, a private good, a natural monopoly good, or a common resource.(a) measles vaccinations (b) tuna in the pacific ocean (c) airline service in the united states (d) local storm-water system