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
Premium Supply and demand
4.4ai. The price elasticity of demand is given to calculate the new price. The fruit stall has 100 peaches initially but 10 peaches are rotten. It means the number of remaining peaches is 90 units. Therefore‚ the question provides the factors such as initial quantity‚ new quantity‚ initial price which are 100‚ 90‚ 1 respectively. Let the new price be x. Therefore‚ we will choose $1.2 per unit as the new price to sell the remaining peaches. 4.4aii. Case 1: If I do not discover the
Premium Marginal cost Costs Economics
Outline I. Introduction A. Attention getter B. Introduce topic II. Price elasticity of demand A. Define B. Example III. Price discrimination A. Define B. Example IV. Effect A. Who/how benefits B. Revenue V. Conclusion A. How B. Closing attention getter Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Discrimination Buy one get one half off and 10% off are just two of the more common offers I come across as a student. They may not seem like much‚ but for some people saving just one dollar
Premium Old age Supply and demand Middle age
Gas Price Elasticity The Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy began tracking weekly gasoline prices in 1990 by means of a survey of 800 service stations around the country. The average retail price for unleaded gasoline posted its fourth record high during the week of June 12‚ 2000‚ increasing 5 cents a gallon to an average of $1.681. The price at the pump is higher than the same period last year by 56 cents and has risen 16.2 cents over the past month (Anonymous‚ 2000)
Premium Petroleum Supply and demand Elasticity
contribute to rising gasoline prices. The major cause for increasing gasoline prices has to do with refining capacity. Even if oil were inexpensive‚ we would still have a problem converting it into the gas that fuels our economy. That is what keeps the gas prices high. When gas supplies are short‚ due to an “inability to refine crude oil into gas efficiently‚” prices increase. This is a component of supply and demand economics. In a positive aspect‚ rising gasoline prices do serve a purpose; they
Premium Petroleum
Why Gold Prices Fluctuate? Posted on May 25‚ 2010 by Manish — 2 Comments ↓ This is the first post in the learner’s series. A simple question that we will answer through this post is‚ “Why do gold prices fluctuate?”. While I am writing this article‚ the Gold price stands at $1238 per ounce (1 ounce = 28.35 grams). This fluctuate everyday‚ and the gold prices have gone significantly up in the past few months. Like all other investments and commodities‚ gold prices also fluctuate everyday and are
Premium Precious metal Investment Bretton Woods system
Gold Prices Forecast As we all know that gold prices are fluctuating widely over the last few years‚ and a wide increase in the bullion rates has been recorded. According to economists and forecasters‚ there are different reasons of this widespread increase in gold prices. Most of them say that this is because of the relationship between crude oil and gold. And because of this correlation between prices of oil and gold‚ the gold prices are constantly changing but its not the only reason these
Premium Inflation Gold United States dollar
shows the price of aluminium over the past six years. It can be seen from Figure 1 that the price of aluminium has fluctuated a great deal during this period. For example: between July 2008 and February 2009 the price fell by 57%; in August 2009 alone the price rose by 16%. In an essay of 1500 words or fewer‚ use economic analysis to explain changes in the price of aluminium over the period shown in Figure 1 and why the price fluctuations have been so great. Figure 1: The monthly LME spot price for aluminium
Premium Supply and demand
Price objective and strategies According to Köehler (1996)‚ the skimming price strategy is a high price strategy which provides a healthy margin but risks a depressed sales volume. Since high prices also attract piracy‚ protection costs against piracy basically eat up margins. In the case of Apple‚ the buyers are not attracted by pirated versions of products because of the image of the brand linked to the snobbism of the “members of the Apple family”. In the graph below‚ we compared iPod sales
Premium Apple Inc. Marketing Pricing
Price Elasticity Elasticity‚ in layman terms can be defined as the ability of an object to stretch or transform in shape‚ and return to its original form. This definition can be applied to many facets of life. In business we say that it is a measure of responsiveness; ‘measure’ being an expression that suggests numerical factors. In economics‚ elasticity is commonly measured in the price elasticity of demand‚ and the price elasticity of supply. Price elasticity of demand is the measure
Premium Supply and demand Elasticity Price elasticity of demand