CHAPTER 9 Three conditions for a market to be perfectly competitive? Many buyers and sellers‚ with all firms selling identical products‚ and no barriers to new firms entering the market. In perfectly competitive markets‚ prices are determined by The interaction of market demand and supply because firms and consumers are price takers. Price taker Buyer or seller that is unable to affect the market price. A buyer or seller that takes the market price as given When are firms likely to be
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and exit Short Run Firm has some market power and faces downward sloping demand curve Price exceeds marginal cost When P>AC firms earn positive economic profits Long Run Positive economic profits in short run attracts new firms Firm’s market share falls and demand curve shifts down P=AC firms earn 0 economic profit P>MC and 0 economic profits deadweight loss Market in which only a few firms compete with one another‚ and entry by new firms is impeded Oligopoly Environment Few
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THE FIRM’S BASIC PROFIT MAXIMIZATION PROBLEM Chapter 2 slide 1 What Quantity of Output should the Firm Produce and Sell and at What Price? The Answer depends on Revenue and Cost Predictions. The Solution is Found using Marginal Analysis. Expand an Activity if and only if the Extra Benefit exceeds the Extra Cost. MAXIMIZING PROFIT FROM MICROCHIPS 2.2 A1. Focus on a single Product‚ A2. whose Revenues and Costs can be predicted with Certainty. Revenue can be predicted using the Demand
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between economics vs managerial economics 1 The traditional Economics has both micro and macro aspects whereas Managerial Economics is essentially micro in character. 2. Economics is both positive and normative science but the Managerial Economics is essentially normative in nature. 3. Economics deals mainly with the theoretical aspect only whereas Managerial Economics deals with the practical aspect. 4. Managerial Economics studies the activities of an individual firm or unit. Its analysis of problems
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3 Textile Organic Dyes – Characteristics‚ Polluting Effects and Separation/Elimination Procedures from Industrial Effluents – A Critical Overview Zaharia Carmen and Suteu Daniela ‘Gheorghe Asachi’ Technical University of Iasi‚ Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection‚ Romania 1. Introduction The residual dyes from different sources (e.g.‚ textile industries‚ paper and pulp industries‚ dye and dye intermediates industries‚ pharmaceutical industries‚ tannery‚ and Kraft
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future of the telecommunications sector in Kenya. Introduction Kenya ’s earliest telecommunications connections to the outside world were the submarine cables linking Zanzibar‚ Mombasa‚ and Dar es Salaam laid by the Eastern & South African Telegraph Company in 1888. Internally‚ the construction of a telegraph net work began with a 200-mile coastal line linking the port city of Mombasa with Lamu. Extension into the interior of the country began in 1896 in conjunction with the building of the railway system
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Definition of managerial economics 7 1.2 Choice and opportunity cost 9 2.0 Basic concerns of economics 9 3.0.0 Theories of economics 12 3.1.0 The theory of demand 13 3.1.1 Tastes 14 3.1.2 Number of buyers 14 3.1.3 Income 14 3.1.5 Expectations 15 3.2 The theory of supply 16 3.3 The theory of production 16 3.4 The theory of price( in government) 17 3.5 The theory of consumer behaviour 17 3.5.1 Rational behaviour 17 3.5.2 Preferences 17 3.5.3 Budget constraint 18 3.5.4 Prices 18 4.0 Managerial Economics and Economic
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INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE COURSE OUTLINE: MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS PGDM 2013-15 INSTRUCTORS Dr. Rajeev Anantaram (ranantaram@imi.edu) Dr. Arnab Deb (arnab.deb@imi.edu) 1. COURSE DESCRIPTION In a scenario characterized by increasing uncertainty and competition‚ managers will be called upon to make increasingly complex decisions that will have a crucial bearing on the prospects of the firm they work for. Indeed‚ even Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) are increasingly faced with the challenge
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Case Study in Managerial accounting Case 1: Southwest Airlines Part A : General Information Company Name: Southwest Airlines Co. Company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange trade market (NYSE) with symbol LUV. Corporate Headquarters are located at the physical address: 2702 Love Field Drive‚ Dallas‚ Texas 75235. Corporate Web Site: http://www.southwest.com. Corporate Web Site for business travelers: http://www.swabiz.com/ Industry Classification Company operates in the Industrial
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INDIAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY: The textile industry holds significant status in the India. Textile industry provides one of the most fundamental necessities of the people. It is an independent industry‚ from the basic requirement of raw materials to the final products‚ with huge value-addition at every stage of processing. Today textile sector accounts for nearly 14% of the total industrial output. Indian fabric is in demand with its ethnic‚ earthly colored and many textures. The textile sector accounts
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