CARLETON UNIVERSITY Department of Economics ECON 4302 Competition and Regulatory Policy Instructor: D.G. McFetridge Fall Term 2011 Office: A806 Loeb Building Phone: 613-520-2600 ext. 3748 E-mail: donald_mcfetridge@carleton.ca Office Hours: Mondays‚ 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays‚ 11:30 a.m. – 12:30‚ or by appointment COURSE WEB SITE: www.carleton.ca/~dmcfet/courses PREREQUISITE: ECON 2030 with a grade of C- or higher or ECON 2003 (no longer offered) with a grade of C- or higher. COURSE FORMAT:
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Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________ ID: A BUS 478 Midterm Sample Questions Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Entry barriers in the embryonic stage are frequently based on a. brand loyalty. b. economies of scale. c. absolute cost advantages. d. economies of scope. e. technological know-how. 2. The threat from new entrants is greatest in the ____ stage of the industry life cycle. a. embryonic
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Frank Uribe Political Science 1 Midterm Exam 2. Discuss the Constitutional basis of Federalism to include enumerated‚ implied‚ Inherent‚ and concurrent powers. The primary institutional feature of the U.S. Constitution was a political system in which state governments share power with the national government; this political system is called federalism. As opposed to a unitary system in which the central government holds most of the power‚ or a confederation in which the regional governments hold the
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DeVry University Salesmanship Week 4 You Decide: Recruiting and Training Sales Personnel By Dashia Blue Attn: Personnel Team I’m excited about what the upcoming year has in store for our organization! According to the leadership team‚ sales continue to be the focus point on increasing revenue. The entry level sales position is vital to the growth and expansion of our consumer goods division. Based on the job description and the objectives of the company we must be strategic in our selection
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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • MComm100 – Mass Communication in Society Midterm Review – 12th Ed (Chapters 1 – 9) Understand the definition of ‘encoding’ What is ‘negative feedback’? Characteristics of a mass communication audience What is a ‘media vehicle’? Characteristics of mass communication organizations What vehicles have increased the mobility of the mass media
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Discussion Questions • During the 2010 Super Bowl® game‚ the Snickers™ candy bar campaign was voted the best ad among men and women 18 and older and youth 18 or younger. The ad featured a neighborhood football game in which one of the players‚ who has dwindling energy‚ is tackled again and again. His teammates tell him‚ “You play like Betty White!” The 80-year-old actress and comedian appears in the ad as the football player being tackled. If you were the owner of the ADBOWL® website‚ how would
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Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Which of the following is a distinguishing feature of a command system? A. private ownership of all capital. B. central planning. C. heavy reliance on markets. D. wide-spread dispersion of economic power. 2. Which of the following is a distinguishing feature of a market system? A. public ownership of all capital. B. central planning. C. wide-spread private ownership of capital. D. a circular flow of
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION “Mangroves live life on the edge” (Warne‚ 2007). Some parts of the mangrove roots are submerged on the water and the other parts are on the land. The mangroves serve as a support system to biodiversity. However‚ according to World Wild Fund or WWF (n.d.)‚ the world already lost more than 35% of its mangrove forest. Mangroves are also responsible for carbon sequestration. According to United States Environment and Protection Agency (n.d.)‚ carbon sequestration is capturing
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Case Study 1: Transaction pricing in a recessionary economy Our client is an FMCG major that sells its products across many large and small retailers. The client is facing pressure from one such large retailer to cut prices across brands and categories. The client is therefore losing money on several products. Our client would like to use analytics to bring in some science into the pricing decision. Our analysis should help the client decide what pricing strategies should be applied to each product
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1) They would undertake a defensive open market sale. 18) Flexibility: Open market operations can be used to conduct a small purchase or sale of securities. Conversely‚ if the desired change in reserves or the base is very large‚ the open market operations tool is strong enough to do the job through a very large purchase or sale of securities Reversibility: Open market operations are easily reversed. If a mistake is made in conducting an open market operation‚ the Fed can immediately reverse
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