The Cause and Effect of Oil Price Hike to the Price of Commodities that Affect the Firms and Consumers Introduction Oil is very important as it one of major sources of energy. With oil there is fuel that is made to run or vehicles‚ buses‚ airplanes‚ to run machineries and plants and to heat hour homes. We have this unlimited need for oil but like any other natural resources‚ it is limited. One day in the future it is possible that we’ll run out of oil. So as ordinary consumers we just accept
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The Price Leadership or Dominant Firm Model I think this model is easiest to learn diagrammatically‚ and then mathematically. Here is the graph and then an explanation of what is happening: Notice first the total market demand curve for the industry as a whole. Then notice the marginal cost curve for the competitive fringe of firms. This is a model in which there is one firm which is dominant and then a fringe of small firms who are so small that they behave like perfectly competitive firms
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Macroeconomics LP4 Assignment A price ceiling is a sort of price control governments have imposed to control the price when the price is higher than it should be. Sellers try to sell more of their product because the price is high. But buyers do not want to buy at that price. Price ceilings commonly lead to shortages and are typically associated with long lines. When a new toy or video game comes out there is usually some kind of wait‚ whether in line or on a waiting list. When “tickle me
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Any typo or mistake is on me. Any questions‚ email me. xgu@econ.rutgers.edu Econ 102: Sec.07 Problem Set #6: Due on Tuesday‚ 26-April-2011 Note: 1. Do it LOL. Do it independently. Do it carefully. 2. Write your answer on the answer sheet attached (last page). I only collect the answer sheets on Tuesdays‚ before the class begins. So you can keep the questions. And if you cannot make Tuesday class‚ please send me your answers via email before Tuesday class ends. Use attachments‚ please. 3. Good
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Non-price Competition Non-price competition involves two major elements: product development and advertising. The major aims of product development are to produce a product that will sell well (i.e. one in high or potentially high demand) and that is different from rivals’ products (i.e. has a relatively inelastic demand due to lack of close substitutes). For shops or other firms providing a service‚ ‘product development’ takes the form of attempting to provide a service which is better than‚
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1 UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON – VICTORIA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ECO 6351 ECONOMICS FOR MANAGERS / SECTION Cinco Ranch INDIVIDUAL CASE ANALYSIS: WHY ARE COCOA PRICES RISING? INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Vera Adamchik STUDENT: _____Hassan Cherradi______ I‚ ________Hassan Cherradi______________‚ hereby certify and warrant: (a) that this Individual Case Analysis is my original work; (b) that I have acknowledged all the sources used in this Case. I understand that copying of another’s work and representing
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Chapter 6: “What Do Firms Try to Maximize‚ if Anything?” Introduction Do firms really maximize profit? This question has been under debate since the 1940s and 1950s‚ when a wide number of mainstream neoclassical economists defended the assumption against a group of institutional economists that questioned the assumption as the norm in the industry. On the side of the neoclassical economists were Fritz Machlup and Milton Friedman‚ with institutional economists Richard A. Lester and Garnder C
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and Government-set Prices A. Short-Answer‚ Essays‚ and Problems New 1. The president of a toy company asks you for advice about whether the company should cut the price of its best-selling doll this year based on the following information: last year the company cut the price of its best-selling doll by 10% and the total revenues from doll sales increased by 10%. New 2. The owner of a health club asks you for advice about whether the company should raise the price of its membership
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Price discrimination in practice First and third degree discrimination in the train tariffs‚ etc. Price discrimination basically involves charging a different price to different groups of people for the same good. It needs some conditions. First of all‚ the firm must operate in an imperfect competition‚ it must be a price maker with a negative sloping demand curve. Second‚ the firm must be able to separate markets and prevent black market. Third‚ there would exist different consumer groups who
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(1) Why is it that a profit-maximizing businessman would always raise prices when facing an inelastic demand curve‚ but might or might not raise prices when facing an elastic demand curve? Explain and justify your answers in detail. Price elasticity of demand is defined as percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price. If the demand is elastic‚ consumer response is large relative to the change in price (e.g.‚ new car‚ airline travel). If demand is inelastic‚ consumers
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