All Rights Reserved 2– 2 CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES Free goods are goods that have no production cost. Public goods are goods that are for common use and will benefit everyone. Economic goods are goods of value that can be seen and touched. Economic services are intangible things (with value) that cannot been seen or touched. All Rights Reserved 2– 3 LAW OF DEMAND Law of demand states that the higher the price of a good‚ the lower is the quantity
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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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Test #2 Practice Test #2: Answer Key Exam number 2 will take place on Monday‚ April 8th‚ 2013. This‚ the second of two practice exams‚ will be the subject of class on Wednesday. It will not be graded‚ but will serve only as practice material accurately representing the content and format of the exam. 1.) Walter used to work as a high school teacher for $40‚000 per year but quit in order to start his own painting business. To invest in his painting business‚ he withdrew $20‚000 from his savings
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This document of BUS 640 Week 4 Discussion Question 1 Strategic Behavior Oligopolies includes: An interesting example of strategic behavior comes from a 1997 article about Microsoft’s investment in Apple (New Straits Times‚ 1997). The article is included in the Required Readings list. Facing tough anti-trust scrutiny from government agencies‚ Microsoft provided financial support to Apple in order to ensure Apple’s survival and‚ therefore‚ to ensure that competitiveness in the industry remains
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PAPER ON EFFECTS OF MARKET STRUCTURE OF AN INDUSTRY ON THE CONDUCT AND PERFORMANCE OF A FIRM This paper provides an overview of telecommunications industry in Kenya and discusses how structure of the industry can affect the conduct of a firm within an industry and also explores how market structure and conduct of the firm affect the firm’s performance. It also offers some ideas regarding the future of the telecommunications sector in Kenya. Introduction Kenya ’s earliest telecommunications connections
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Characteristics of rural India: Few of the points that can be easily inferred from the case are- 1) This is a monopolistic market. This can be inferred by the fact that there exist a perfect substitute for the product to be launched‚ although not as a one-to-one substitute but in form of ‘bath soap’ and ‘washing soap’. 2) There already exist a number of local soap brands in form of Anarkali ‚ Chand ka Tukda‚ Heroine etc. and a number of local detergent cake brands in form of Ajooba‚ Chamatkar
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Chapter 5: Question 3: Suppose that two units of X and eight units of Y give a consumer the same utility as four units of X and two units of Y. Over this range: a. If the consumer obtains one more unit of X‚ how many units of Y must be given up in order to keep utility constant ∆Y∆X=2-84-2= - 62= -3 ~ Utility unchanged‚ if consumer exchanges 3 units of Y for 1 unit of X. b. If the consumer obtains one more unit of Y‚ how many units of X must be given up in order to keep
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THEORATICAL REVIEW: Project manger is expected to select the the project which is benificiary to the organization. Cost benefit anlysis is done by the project manger. It is highly unlikely that project manger select the the project whose cost exceeds its benefits. Benefits can be measured either finacial or non-finacial. The puposuse of idetifying the financial benefits is called copital budgeting‚ which may be defined as decision making process by which organization evaluate the projects that
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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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Diff 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
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