PRICE DISCRIMINATION : A pricing strategy that charges customers different prices for the same product or service. In pure price discrimination‚ the seller will charge each customer the maximum price that he or she is willing to pay. In more common forms of price discrimination‚ the seller places customers in groups based on certain attributes and charges each group a different price. Price discrimination involves market segmentation. A firm price discriminates when it charges different prices
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1. Under what environmental conditions are price wars most likely to occur in an industry? What are the implications of price wars for a company? How should a company try to deal with the threat of a price war? Price wars are most likely to occur when the following conditions are present in an industry: the product is a commodity‚ exit barriers are substantial‚ excess capacity exists‚ the industry is consolidated‚ and demand is declining. A price war constitutes a strong threat. It is difficult
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Analysts expect gas prices to decrease or remain mostly flat not only in 2014‚ but for years to come. Nonetheless‚ drivers in some states will see higher prices at the pump‚ starting January 1. Gas prices may not have seemed all that cheap in 2013. But in fact‚ prices for the year as a whole were less expensive than they have been. According toAAA’s year-end report‚ American drivers paid $3.49 per gallon of regular‚ on average for 2013. That’s the cheapest per-gallon average since 2010; the national
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Price controls are usually justified as a way to help consumers‚ but those who advocate them often ignore their incentive effects. Consider‚ for example‚ rent controls‚ a popular form of a price ceiling. If the demand curve and the short-run supply curves are inelastic‚ then a sizable drop in rents may result in a very small shortage. The benefits to consumers (lower prices) will‚ in the judgment of most‚ clearly outweigh the costs to consumers (less housing). Further‚ the short-run supply of housing
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Price Determination under Monopoly Monopoly is that market form in which a single producer controls the whole supply of a single commodity which has no close substitute. From this definition there are two points that must be noted: (i) Single Producer: There must be only one producer who may be anindividual‚ a partnership firm or a joint stock company.Thus single firmconstitutes the industry.The distinction between firm and industry disappearsunder conditions of monopoly. (ii) No Close Substitute: The
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with their competition through certain adjustments and empolying different strategies. There are certain phenomena that may occur upon utilizing such in an industry and one of those is the price war. Price war is a market situation characterized by the cutting of prices of companies below their competitors prices. This may mainly occur on conditions wherein there is a very heavy competition present. In such situation‚ companies will do every strategy in order for them to overthrow competitors and
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to the war in Iraq‚ Syria and Ukraine‚ oil prices increased significantly as did the profit earned by many oil companies including PETRONAS. Politicians in Malaysia opposed the government policy to oil price increase by twenty cents and the withdrawal of oil subsidy. As a manager or policy implementer‚ discuss the pros and cons if this policy in the context of the various theories of profit. Introduction The government of Malaysia increased the price of oil by 20 cents and withdrawal of the oil
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college bookstores. Unfortunately there is a great amount of students who are not able to purchase their textbooks due to the high prices. When required to purchase their textbook many students will have to pay $100 or more. The question is if those prices are fair and can they be justified? Publishers are using different strategies to artificially increase the price of the textbooks and reduce the used book sales. Some of the things that many of them practice are adding on materials to the textbooks
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and their competitive organizations set the prices for their industry. “Because of their “fewness‚” oligopolies have considerable control over their prices‚ but each must consider the possible reaction of rivals to its own pricing‚ output‚ and advertising decisions” (Brue et al‚ 2009). The two main competitors for the McDonald’s corporation are Burger King and Wendy’s. The pricing summaries for all three organizations are very similar. With prices fairly consistent‚ how are companies competing
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English 1023---M02 28 October 2012 Gas Prices Today‚ gas price as a national average have risen to 2.1 dollars per gallon. This is the highest gas price increase since 1990‚ during operation desert storm. What is the cause of this drastic increase in gas prices? Limited supply of crude oil from the Middle East some say. Others think the cause is high trade tariffs on incoming foreign oil. But what is the solution to this problem? Is it drilling in our national wildlife reserves in Alaska? Dropping
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