QUESTION 1 Price ceiling create shortage. How to overcome it? According to the book “Economic Theory in the Malaysian Context”‚ the definition of price ceiling is a legally established maximum price a seller can charge. It means that the price is lower than the equilibrium market price and it cannot go above the ceiling price. The reason that government imposes ceiling price on item such as beef‚ flour‚ sugar and many more is because to ensure that consumers are able to buy these goods at
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Firms with some market power can increase profits by practicing either direct price discrimination or indirect price discrimination. Direct price discrimination arises when the market can be segmented into sub populations on the basis of readily observable characteristics. Each of the segments has a different elasticity of demand and subsequently is charged a different price. Arbitrage must be prevented for this type of discrimination to be applicable. Profits are maximized by equating the marginal
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Apple Price Cut Case 1. To what extent the iPhone pricing strategy is similar to the iPod pricing strategy? How do you explain that the iPod price cut did not lead to such a level of customers’ protest? Answer: Both iPhone and iPod have experienced a large amount of price cut in their product lifecycle. In this document‚ we can find that iPod was launched in October 2001. Tough relatively high priced for an MP3 player‚ it was hugely demanded and remains popular till date though there was
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two possible demand curves for its own output‚ as illustrated below. The first (A) prevails if other oligopolists don’t match price changes. The second (B) prevails if rivals do match price changes. Price ($) $10 9 8 7 6 5 4 Demand A 3 2 1 Demand B 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 Quantity (units per period) a) By how much does quantity demanded change if price is reduced from
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Water Quality and Contamination Tamekia Roberts SCI 207: Dependence of man on the Environment Instructor: Michelle Kozlowski November 24‚ 2014 Introduction Background- The ever-increasing popularity of bottled water means that it is important to analyze not only its mineral content but also‚ above all‚ it’s content of possible contaminants‚ especially the organic ones. In this respect‚ bottled waters are a special case‚ because apart from organic chemical contaminants
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stores in USA market because of economic clash. It also mentioned that the raising of strong competition of MCD‚ who provide much cheaper price of coffee. The heavy pricing completion from competitor and slowing economic drives Starbucks’ market fluctuation. Moreover‚ the article also stated that since financial crisis‚ it has result Starbucks’s market stock price dropped 50% of its value in 2008‚ which is not a positive sign of a company. Nevertheless‚ it does have better performance in some Asian
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the preference for investment in India and considered a savings and investment vehicle. India is the world’s largest consumer of gold in jewelry as an investment. Gold is traded in the form of securities on stock exchange Even when the gold prices are high there is steel boom in the commodities market of gold hence the main purpose and the need of the study are to know the investment pattern in gold and to hedge the risk The data which is used in the study is secondary data. The analysis
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Outline I. INTRODUCTION TOPIC: Bottled water HOOK: THESIS STATEMENT: effects on humans‚ environment and oceans BODY II. FIRST EFFECT: Humans SUPPORTING DETAILS: Bottled water has many bad things for our bodies. III. SECOND EFFECT: Environment SUPPORTING DETAILS: Bottled water has many chemicals that contaminate the environment. IV. THIRD EFFECT: Oceans SUPPORTING DETAILS: We think we recycle bottled water but they end up oceans. V. CONCLUSION: Bottled water has many effects on us and environment
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“REPORT ON DO SOARING PRICE AND MOUNTING DEMAND IN INDIAN GOLD MARKET SPEAK OF A PARADOX? “ A STUDY ON “MISMATCH BETWEEN DEMANDS FOR AND SUPPLY OF GOLD’’ CASE STUDY SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT OF MASTERS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT COURSE OF ALLIANCE UNIVERSITY ALLIANCE BUSINESS SCHOOL INDEX Page no. Content 1 Cover page 2 Index 3 Problem statement and Executive Summary 4 Issue analysis 5 Statistical
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Intermediate Price Theory Problem Set 1 -- Supply and Demand 1. Assume that the United States demand curve for corn is QD = 80 - 2P where P is the price of corn (in dollars per bushels) and QD is the quantity of demanded of corn ( in billions of bushels) and that QS = 20 + 4P is the supply curve for corn where QS is the quantity of corn supplied (in billions of bushels). a. What are the equilibrium price and quantity? At equilibrium‚
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