Case study assignment question 2

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The president of a small manufacturing firm is concerned about the continual increase in manufacturing costs over the past several years. The following figures provide a time series of the cost per unit for the firm’s leading product over the past eight years.

Show a graph of this time series.

Find all simple index numbers for the base year 2003 and 2008.

Determine all chain base index numbers.

What is average growth rate of the cost in the years 2006-2010?

Develop the equation for the linear trend of the time series. What is the average cost increase that the firm has been realizing per year?

What cost can we predict for the year 2014 ? What is the error of this estimate?

Make a comprehensive analysis of time series below:

( ice-cream sales (tonnes) )

Using the least square criterion estimate the parameters of the proper trend function. What kind of ice-cream sales can we expect in July? Give the standard error of estimate. What kind of assumption must we use for a given estimation? Check the average growth rate of the variable between February and June if .

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Gasoline sales time series:

Make a comprehensive analysis of time series.

Choose the first, the fifth and last week as the base period.

The values of Alabama building contracts (in millions of dollars) for a 12month period (the year 2012) are as follow:

Compare values of the variable using to this aim the first period as a base.

Check the changes using the chain base index numbers.

Determine the average growth rate between March and July.

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The president of small manufacturing firm is concerned about the continual increase in manufacturing costs over the past several years. The following figures provide a time series of the cost per unit for the firm’s leading product over the past eight years.

Compare the cost in the year 2012 with the cost in the year 2010.

Compare the cost in the year 2011 with the cost in the year 2007.

Compare the cost in the year 2005 with the cost in the year 2010.

Determine all costs with the base unit cost 36,00($).

What is the average cost increase that the firm has been realizing per year?

Develop the equation for the linear trend components of the time series.

The following data show the percentage of rural, urban, and suburban Americans who have a high-speed Internet connection at home (Pew Internet Rural Broadband Internet Use, February 2006).

For each group, develop a linear trend equation.

For each group check the average growth /decline/ rate.

For each group make a prediction for the year 2006 and determine standard error of estimate.

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The following data show the average monthly cellular telephone bill (The

New York Times, Atlanta, 2006)

Graph the time series.

Does the trend appear to be present?

Find the theoretical linear trend function.

Use the trend equation to estimate the average monthly bill for the year 2005 and 2007. Use standard error in your estimation.

Based on data below make a comprehensive analysis of price dynamics, quantity and value of all grocery products per capita in Poland in 2011 relative to the base year 2010.

Do not forget to make conclusions taking into account Fisher ideal index.

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Fresh fruit price and quantity data for the year 1988 and 2001 follow (Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2002).

Quantity data reflect per capita consumption in pounds and prices are per pound.

Compute relative price for each product.

Compute a weighted aggregate price index for fruit products.

Comment on the change in fruit prices over the 13-year period.

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Starting faculty salaries (nine-month basis) for assistant professor of business administration at a major Midwestern university follow.

Comment on the trend in salaries in higher education as indicated by these data. What faculty salary can we expect in the year 2015 ?

Make a comprehensive analysis of dynamic.

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Boran Stockbrokers, Inc., selects four stocks for the purpose of developing its own index of stock market behavior. Prices per share for a 2004 base period, January 2006, and March 2006 follow.

Base-year quantities are set on the basis of historical volumes for stocks.

Use the 2004 base period to compute the Boran index for January and March 2006. Compute the price relatives for the four stocks.

/Use the weighted aggregates of price to compute the January 2006 and March 2006 Boran indexes/

Comment on what the indexes tell us about what is happening in the stock market.

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The following table reports prices and usage quantities for two items in 2004 and 2006.

Find price change for each item in 2006 using 2004 as the base period.

Find unweighted aggregate price index for the two items using the year 2004 as the base year.

Find weighted aggregate price index for the two items using Lasperyes and Paasche index.

Check the changes of quantities using appropriate aggregate index number.

Interpret Fisher ideal index.

What can you say about value change?

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A large manufacturer purchases an identical component from three independent suppliers that differ in unit price and quantity supplied. The relevant data for 2004 and 2006 are given here:

Compute the price relatives for each of the component suppliers separately. Find all possible unweighted and weighted index numbers. What is the interpretation of these index numbers?

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