1. You work for a beer company. Your boss wants to increase yearly sales by 5000 liters. To reach the target, she wants to increase the money the firm spends on advertising. She asks you to calculate the needed increase in advertising expenditure, denoted by the variable expenditure. You collect data on company sales and estimate the following model: Beer_cons =- 20.15 + 0.536*expenditure – 0.131*price + 0.210*hhincome where expenditure is measured in thousands of Euros and beer consumption is measured in hundreds of liters. Assuming the company maintains its price and the demographic composition of the market stays the same, by how much do you have to increase expenditure to meet the boss' target?

1. You work for a beer company. Your boss wants to increase yearly sales by 5000 liters. To reach the target, she wants to increase the money the firm spends on advertising. She asks you to calculate the needed increase in advertising expenditure, denoted by the variable expenditure. You collect data on company sales and estimate the following model: Beer_cons =- 20.15 + 0.536expenditure – 0.131price + 0.210*hhincome where expenditure is measured in thousands of Euros and beer consumption is measured in hundreds of liters. Assuming the company maintains its price and the demographic composition of the market stays the same, by how much do you have to increase expenditure to meet the boss' target?

Essentials of Economics (MindTap Course List)

8th Edition

ISBN:9781337091992

Author:N. Gregory Mankiw

Publisher:N. Gregory Mankiw

Chapter5: Elastic And Its Application

Section: Chapter Questions

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