1. Consider a personal computer market with two firms‚ X and Y. Suppose that Firm X and Y have the following total cost function: TCX=10QXTCY=10QY . The market is given by P=100-QX-QY. (a) Calculate the Cournot equilibrium outputs of firm X and Y in this market. (b) Calculate their market price in the Cournot equilibrium. (c) Calculate their profits in the Cournot equilibrium. (d) Suppose that firm X is considering implementing a proprietary technology they have developed. The onetime sunk cost
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10 Forces that Impact Businesses By James D. Underwood from Competitive Intelligence For Dummies Competitive intelligence (CI) enables an organization to continually evolve in response to ever-changing conditions. These conditions‚ or forces‚ can be classified into ten distinct categories. The first two forces described in this article — market and technological forces — drive the velocity of change. In other words‚ changes in these areas require your organization to adapt very quickly to take advantage
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Wage determination in perfect and imperfect markets Perfect competition In perfect labor markets‚ everyone is wage taker – both the employee and the employer. On the one hand‚ the employer and his firm cannot control the market as there are too numerous firms and the firm is price taker on the product market and labor market. On the other hand‚ the workers cannot control their wage as they have no economic power to do so or they are of a clearly definite type. In perfect competition there
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affect consumers/producers? 5 What is likely to be the price and income elasticity of demand for its main products? 6 If the firm is operating in an imperfect market‚ and it’s very likely to be‚ which type is it and why‚ and what are the implications for the consumer? 7 What are the characteristics of the firm’s labour markets in both economies and how have these affected its business? Macro Questions 8 Which of the major trading blocs does the company operate in and how does this
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Imperfect Competition In a perfectly competitive market—a market in which there is many buyers and sellers‚ none of whom represents a large part of the market—firms are price takers. That is‚ they are sellers of products who believe they can sell as much as they like at the current price but cannot influence the price they receive for their product. For example‚ a wheat farmer can sell as much wheat as she likes without worrying that if she tries to sell more wheat‚ she will depress the market
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[pic] Why Do Businesses Fail? Analyze the reasons and provide a case study of one or more companies that have failed or suffered serious setbacks before they recovered. Name: YAN Hong ID number: 100004456 Tutor: Mrs. Dawn Cremonese It is well known that the financial crisis which started in 2008 is a worldwide recession. Even the Lehman Brothers Holdings‚ which was a global firm with a high reputation‚ went bankrupt on September 15th‚ 2008. Lehman Brothers Holdings failed because it was unable
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Perfectly imperfect! I’m Hime‚ a senior high school‚ who had a dream and tried to make it happen but‚ it seems like time and chances don’t want me to reach my dreams. I cry without tears in front of all people and laugh with drams of tears when I’m alone. Could you imagine that a big childlike girl puts her hands up while fighting? I’m trying to survive while I’m half alive‚ and struggling to live although thorns and spikes hug me so tight‚ while deeply breathing. “Nobody’s perfect.” No‚ that’s
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Why Do Businesses Internationalise? 1. Why do businesses internationalise? Compare and contrast mainstream and alternative theories. (Firms search for‚ efficient‚ cheap‚ productive locations) MNE – multinational enterprise Neoclassical Trade Theories Heckscher-Ohlin’s Factor Endowments: A mathematical model‚ It predicts patterns of trade (production and consumption) based upon a country’s factor endowments. Factor endowments include land‚ labour and capital. The amounts of these vary between countries
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Imperfect healthcare The fundamental basis of economics is that the resources we have are scarce‚ such idea holds true in the health care sector of the economy. Health economics helps us understand how the scarce resources the health care system are allocated among the many competing uses for those resources to satisfy our health care needs. In a market‚ there is a process of voluntary exchange between a buyer and a seller for a service or good. In the health sector the buyer; is the consumer
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many benefits‚ especially wages. This could not only increase the cost of product‚ but also decrease company’s profit. According to Gaebler Ventures (2010)‚ it claimed that labour cost is one of the highest expenditures of company‚ particularly new businesses. Bloomberg (2010) pointed out that an increase in labour cost can slow down the organizational growth. If the company provides workers too high wages but does not increase working hours‚ the product cost will rise and the company itself will gain
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