Smyth Industries operated as a monopolist for the past several years, earning annual profits amounting to $50 million, which it could have maintained if Jones Incorporated did not enter the market. The result of this increased competition is lower prices and lower profits; Smyth Industries now earns $10 million annually. The managers of Smyth Industries are trying to devise a plan to drive Jones Incorporated out of the market so Smyth can regain its monopoly position (and profit). One of Smyth's managers suggests pricing its product 50 percent below marginal cost for exactly one year. The estimated impact of such a move is a loss of $1 billion. Ignoring antitrust concerns, compute the present value of Smyth Industries' profits if it remains a duopolist in this market when the interest rate is 5 percent.

Although gdp is a reasonably good measure of a nation's output, it does not necessarily include all transactions and production for that nation. which of the following scenarios are either not accounted for or measured inaccurately by either the income or the expenditure methods of calculating gdp for the united states? check all that apply. the value of babysitting services, when the babysitter is paid in cash and the transaction isn't reported to the government the variety of goods available to consumers funds spent by city governments to renovate their buildings the costs of air and water pollution when a u.s. company purchases and imports electronic parts from china to use to produce mp3 players within the united states, this purchase increases the component of gdp while also net exports by the same amount. therefore, the purchase of electronic parts from china causes in us gdp.