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    In this essay I am going to evaluate the statement if “the unintended consequences of minimum prices often far outweigh the benefits of imposing them”. After having read many articles about these it becomes clear to me that minimum wages have both positives and negatives to all the parties concerned in this issue. For the employers (“A legal entity that controls and directs a servant or worker under an express or implied contract of employment and pays (or is obligated to pay) him or her salary or

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    Call Option and Price

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    and put prices are given by Strike Call premium Put premium 80 22 4 100 9 21 (IJ Find the convexity violations. (1.-) What spread would you use to effect arbitrage? 105 5 24.80 o t: y- (Q I A New York finn is offering a new financial instrument called a "happy calL" It has a payoff function at time T equal to max(.5S‚ S - K)‚ where S is the price of a stock and K is a fixed strike price. You always get something with a happy call. Let P be the price of the

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    the market power to set the price of a homogeneous product. Because the conditions for perfect competition are strict‚ there are few if any perfectly competitive markets. Still‚ buyers and sellers in some auction-type markets‚ say for commodities or some financial assets‚ may approximate the concept. Perfect competition serves as a benchmark against which to measure real-life and imperfectly competitive markets. Price Discrimination |   | Most businesses charge different prices to different groups

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    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

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    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

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    Consumer Price Index

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    Consumer Price Index The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of change in prices over a period of time. The CPI is made up of a fixed basket of goods that is used to determine one’s CPI. The basket of goods consists of services and goods like food‚ education‚ transportation‚ apparel‚ housing‚ and beverages. Some examples of these goods are cereal‚ milk‚ cheese‚ prescription drugs‚ jewelry and new vehicles (“Consumer Price Index” 2010). The basket of goods are reviewed every ten years‚ which

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    Price elasticity of demand Marija managed to explain perfectly what is the price elasticity and what are the factors that affect it: availability of substitutes and time. In overall‚ it is a very scholastic presentation since Marija gives in detail how the demand of goods is changing according to the availability of substitutes‚ the fluctuation of the price of goods‚ and what impact they have on the consumers if all the other factors are being stable. Though‚ there is a point of which I would add

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    Prescription Drug Prices

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    effects‚ and what’s in their medicine. Medicine is so expensive because prices are generally shaped by what the market will bear‚ drugmakers and some economists argue that price controls or other efforts aimed at slowing spending by targeting profits mean cutting money that could go toward developing the next new cure. A drug’s price should reflect its effectiveness‚ The “most important factor” that drives prescription drug prices higher in the United States than anywhere else in the world is the existence

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    Gas Prices Explained

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    Emily Mullins Associate Professor Honeycutt English 1010 December 10‚ 2012 Gas Prices too high to pay Today gas prices have crept up to just over fifteen dollars a gallon. Due to rapidly depleted resources‚ the price of oil has gone to five hundred and thirty dollars; therefore the final price of gasoline had to increase. This has caused extreme violence to erupt all over the nation‚ especially at the gas stations themselves. People‚ in order just to fill up their gas tanks have had to sacrifice

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    Notes Factors affecting demand: * Price of Substitutes- An increase in the price of a good’s substitute will increase demand for the good. * Price of Complements- An increase in the price of a good’s complement will decrease demand for the good. * Consumers’ Income- A rise in income increases the demand for normal goods and decreases the demand for inferior goods. * Consumers’ Expectations- If consumers expect a product’s quality to increase in the near future‚ they will have a lower

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