Firms, Companies, and Banks
The big 4 accounting firms
What are Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, and EY?
When the price of muffins increase, demand for coffee decreases. In this case muffins and coffee are (complements or substitutes).
What are complements?
Most popular Halloween candy in America.
What are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?
Which college does the Econ major fall under?
What is the College of Letters and Science?
The 5 main emotions inside Riley's head in Inside Out.
What are Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust?
The big 3 management consulting firms
What are McKinsey and Company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain and Company?
If the nominal interest rate on a loan is 8% while the expected inflation rate is 3%, this is the real interest rate that will be paid on that loan.
What is 5%?
This country started the jack-o’-lantern tradition.
What is Ireland?
The year DEC was founded.
What is 2022?
In Harry Potter, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into these 4 houses.
What are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin?
Commercial bank that offers a Banking Academy at UC Davis.
What is River City Bank?
(For a traditional demand and supply graph where the horizontal axis is quantity and the vertical axis is price.) If the demand curve stays the same while the supply curve shifts to the right, this will happen to market equilibrium.
What is an increase in quantity and a decrease in price?
The term for an adult male turkey.
What is a tom/gobbler?
This professor *currently* advises DEC and serves as the acting Undergraduate Program Chair of the Department of Economics.
Who is Professor Derek Stimel?
Fictional city that Batman protects.
What is Gotham City?
The largest company in the world (by revenue).
What is Amazon?
U(q1, q2) = 3q1q2
For the above utility function, what is the marginal utility of good 1?
What is 3q2?
The 3 zodiac signs of the fall season.
What are Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius?
4 professors that teach in the ECN Department.
Ex: Who are Prof. Rezaee, Russ, Bitler, and Schlom?
First Disney Princess movie to be given a live-action adaptation.
What is Cinderella?
The type of consulting that involves using economic and statistical analysis primarily for law firms and government agencies. (Firms like Cornerstone Research and Analysis Group are known for this.)
What is economic consulting?
A good's demand function, with qd being quantity demanded and p being price is given by qd = 12 - 3p. This is the price elasticity of demand when p = 2.
This U.S. president made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The AATC provides tutoring for these 5 ECN courses.
What are ECN 1A, 1B, 100A, 100B, and 101?
In Avengers: Endgame, Tony Stark says this before snapping his fingers?
What is “I am Iron Man”?