Firms, Companies, and Banks
Practice Problems
Autumn
UCD Economics
Movies
100

The big 4 accounting firms

What are Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, and EY?

100

When the price of muffins increase, demand for coffee decreases. In this case muffins and coffee are (complements or substitutes).

What are complements?

100

Most popular Halloween candy in America.

What are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?

100

Which college does the Econ major fall under?

What is the College of Letters and Science?

100

The 5 main emotions inside Riley's head in Inside Out.

What are Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust?

200

The big 3 management consulting firms

What are McKinsey and Company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain and Company?

200

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%?


200

This country started the jack-o’-lantern tradition.

What is Ireland?

200

The year DEC was founded.

What is 2022?

200

In Harry Potter, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into these 4 houses.

What are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin?

300

Commercial bank that offers a Banking Academy at UC Davis.

What is River City Bank?


300

(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?

300

The term for an adult male turkey.

What is a tom/gobbler?

300

This professor *currently* advises DEC and serves as the acting Undergraduate Program Chair of the Department of Economics.

Who is Professor Derek Stimel?

300

Fictional city that Batman protects.

What is Gotham City?

400

The largest company in the world (by revenue).

What is Amazon?


400

U(q1, q2) = 3q1q2

For the above utility function, what is the marginal utility of good 1?

What is 3q2?

400

The 3 zodiac signs of the fall season.

What are Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius?

400

4 professors that teach in the ECN Department.

Ex: Who are Prof. Rezaee, Russ, Bitler, and Schlom?

400

First Disney Princess movie to be given a live-action adaptation.

What is Cinderella?

500

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?

500

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.

What is -1?
500

This U.S. president made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday in 1863.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

The AATC provides tutoring for these 5 ECN courses.

What are ECN 1A, 1B, 100A, 100B, and 101?

500

In Avengers: Endgame, Tony Stark says this before snapping his fingers?

What is “I am Iron Man”?