STICKY PRICES AND THEIR MACROECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES To understand the economic fluctuations‚ many economists have focused attention on economic coordination problems. Normally‚ the price system efficiently coordinates what goes on in an economy even in a complex economy. The price system provides signals to firms as to who buys what‚ how much to produce‚ what resources to use‚ and from whom to buy. For example‚ if consumers decide to buy fresh fruit rather than chocolate‚ the price of fresh fruit
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gasoline prices for the resent several years. The prices for gasoline had been changed rapidly. Mostly increasing‚ while the demand for it did not. For example‚ gasoline prices by Feb. 2008 rose to an average of $3.13 a gallon‚ that is up to 40% from $2.24 in Jan 2007. ( with the price elasticity 1%/40% = 0‚025)‚ and up to 62% from 2003. (with the price elasticity 1%/62% = 0‚016). Yet‚ demand continued to grow at an average 1.15% a year by 2006. Someone could ask why the rise of price did not
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CHAPTER ONE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND The problem of price escalation‚ especially in the construction industry‚ is a worldwide phenomenon‚ and its ripple is normally a source of friction between clients and contractors on the issue of price escalations. If this friction is not properly handled‚ this could stall the progress of work and may subsequently lead to project abandonment and the actual project will suffer with universal inflations of costs. [5]Although the causes of project
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trade practice is that which represents abuse of market power in the production and marketing of goods and services by eliminating potential competitors from market and taking advantage of the control over the market by charging unreasonably high prices‚ preventing or reducing competition‚ limiting technical development‚ deteriorating product quality or by adopting unfair ordeceptive trade practices. MRTP Act repealed and is replaced by the Competition Act‚ 2002‚ with effect from September
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affect does the price of oil and gas have on the economy? How does this affect the daily lives of the entire population? The preceding questions are the basis for the enclosed report. The primary objective of this report is to give a few reasons as to what causes prices of oil and prices of gas to rise. Among these reasons‚ speculation of things that may or may not happen‚ like a terrorist strike‚ is one of the leading factors. Another reason for the continued rise in prices of oil and gas is
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A Price Theory of Multi-Sided Platforms By E. G LEN W EYL∗ Draft: October 6‚ 2009 I develop a general theory of monopoly pricing of networks. Platforms use insulating tariffs to avoid coordination failure‚ implementing any desired allocation. Profit-maximization distorts in the spirit of Spence (1975) by internalizing only network externalities to marginal users. Thus the empirical and prescriptive content of the popular Rochet and Tirole (2006) model of two-sided markets turns on the nature
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The ridiculous land price in HK Hong Kong is an amazing place. Due to its unique history and location‚ Hong Kong became an international city. Most of the rich companies in Hong Kong rely on the estate’s business. The fact is that Hong Kong is just a small place‚ land supply is extremely limited. But the population never stops growing. In this situation‚ businessmen keep rising the land price or the rent. As government needs more income to enrich the reserve and keeps providing land piece to the
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States‚ would you have any ethical concerns about selling the product in countries that do not prohibit its sale? Suppose the inventory write-down that you will be forced to take because of the regulatory obsolescence is material- nearly a 20 percent reduction in income will result. If you can sell the inventory in a foreign market‚ legally‚ there will be no write-down and no income reduction. A reduction of that magnitude would substantially lower share market price‚ which in i=turn would lead your
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NEGOCIATION ANALYSIS EXERCISE ON BATNAS‚ RESERVATION PRICES‚ AND ZOPAS A PRIMER ON BATNAS‚ RESERVATION PRICES‚ AND ZOPAS This introduction talks about Negotiation concepts. BATNA (Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreement) is the last proposal that a person can do before exiting the negotiation. You have to prepare your BATNA before the negotiation to keep in mind what is your alternative solution if the agreement cannot be reach. Then‚ RESERVATION PRICES is the point beyond which a negotiator is ready
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various methods for performing price analysis and describe which method is the best for the widest variety of situations. To do this we will take a brief look at the seven price analysis methods called out in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.404-1(b)‚ and do a comparison of them. Price Analysis Methods To quantify if the asking price is reasonable‚ without having to scrutinize all of the cost or profit details included in the price‚ the government uses price analysis methods as follows
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