Answer:
a) If bribes cost $1,000 each, how much will a housing inspector make each year in bribes?
So, if the corrupt inspector approves two newly built structures each week, ti means that he is bribed twice per week. There are 52 weeks in a year, so he gets a total of 104 bribes (52 x 2). If each bribe costs $1,000, then he makes a total of: $1,000 x 104 = $104,000 in bribes per year.
c) Corrupt officials may have an incentive to reduce the provision of government services to help line their own pockets.
This statement is true. Corrupt officials will want to have private companies they can obtain bribes from provide government services. It increases the probability of them making money from bribes.
d) What if reducing the number of inspectors from 20 to 10 only increased the equilibrium bribe from $1,000 to $1,500?
Reducing the number of inspectors in hafl means that each inspector now gets twice the bribes. Because the equilibrium price did not double as did the quantity of bribes, each inspector will make less money than expected, but they will still the incentive to collect all the four bribes per week.
Answer: Option (c) is correct.
Explanation:
Correct Option: The corporate tax rate increases.
If there is an increase in the corporate tax rate then this will induce the firms to increase the amount of their debt. This is due to the fact that the firms with more debt are going to pay less tax because of the large interest expense. Due to large interest expenses, their income before tax reduces.
Hence, large corporate taxes encourage firms to increase the amount of debt. Therefore, the firms with no debt pays higher taxes than the firms with higher amount of debt.
Answer:
B. Depletion will be $950,000 during 2018
Explanation:
Cost $10,000,000
Residual Value ($500,000)
Cost to be depleted $9,500,000
No. of Carats to be extracted over the life of mine 500,000
Per carat depletion (9,500,000/500,000) $19
Depletion for the year 2018 $19*50,000=$950,000
This will be deducted from revenue as depletion for the year.So option B is correct.
If that happen, other investors that bet for the opposite cause of your investment would be the one that gained that money, and you will still able to keep that stocks to collect dividend as long as you don't sell it.
(this circumtances won't happen if the reason you lost the money is the firm going into bankruptcy)
Answer:
A credit to Appropriations,$12,900,000
