1. Under what environmental conditions are price wars most likely to occur in an industry? What are the implications of price wars for a company? How should a company try to deal with the threat of a price war? Price wars are most likely to occur when the following conditions are present in an industry: the product is a commodity‚ exit barriers are substantial‚ excess capacity exists‚ the industry is consolidated‚ and demand is declining. A price war constitutes a strong threat. It is difficult
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Analysts expect gas prices to decrease or remain mostly flat not only in 2014‚ but for years to come. Nonetheless‚ drivers in some states will see higher prices at the pump‚ starting January 1. Gas prices may not have seemed all that cheap in 2013. But in fact‚ prices for the year as a whole were less expensive than they have been. According toAAA’s year-end report‚ American drivers paid $3.49 per gallon of regular‚ on average for 2013. That’s the cheapest per-gallon average since 2010; the national
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college bookstores. Unfortunately there is a great amount of students who are not able to purchase their textbooks due to the high prices. When required to purchase their textbook many students will have to pay $100 or more. The question is if those prices are fair and can they be justified? Publishers are using different strategies to artificially increase the price of the textbooks and reduce the used book sales. Some of the things that many of them practice are adding on materials to the textbooks
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INTRODUCTION Stock market is an essential part of capital market. The economy of our country largely depends on a strong capital market. Contribution of any stock exchange generally leads to economic growth by increasing the funds to finance industry and other enterprise. Stock exchange is an independent company formed by shareholders members. It can take various decisions independently. The objectives of stock exchange is to provide a market place along with facilities for together the buyers
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Hi guys‚ my name is Betty. I am the lead of my group today. I am goanna talk about fuel prices. The issue of fuel is very complex. First‚ what is fuel? It is material such as coal‚ gas‚ or oil that is burned to produce heat or power. And these 3 energies occupy the major parts of fuel use. In the past few years‚ fuel prices went up rapidly. Each country is very sensitive on the price. What causes fuel prices to rise and fall? For instance‚ let us have a look at oil. There are two main reasons
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Week I Quiz Results/Answers ECO561 1. Revenue increases when * producer surplus increases 2. An increase in the price of an inelastic good * increases revenues 3. Price elasticity of Demand increases when * people become less price sensitive over time 4. The purpose of a market in a market system is to * bring buyers and sellers into contact 5. By specializing in the production of one good‚ a company is able to benefit from economies of scale which increases its revenue. Which
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rare. As we learned earlier this year about the free market‚ price is determined by quantity of demand and supply‚ but with government intervention‚ prices may be controlled‚ quantity of supply may change because of subsidies‚ and demand may change if tax is added on products. Intervention may cause the market disordered‚ and also leads to unwanted harmful consequences. A several examples of government interventions are taxation‚ price control‚ and subsidizing. Tax is an amount of money placed on
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with their competition through certain adjustments and empolying different strategies. There are certain phenomena that may occur upon utilizing such in an industry and one of those is the price war. Price war is a market situation characterized by the cutting of prices of companies below their competitors prices. This may mainly occur on conditions wherein there is a very heavy competition present. In such situation‚ companies will do every strategy in order for them to overthrow competitors and
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low price. The IKEA business idea is: ‘We shall offer a wide range of well-designed‚ functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.’ IKEA targets price-conscious young couples and families who are willing and able to transport and assemble furniture kits. The low-price strategy‚ seeks to achieve a lower price than competitors while maintaining similar perceived product or service benefits to those offered by competitors‚ price is not
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Cumulative Stocks - This type of preferred stock comes with a provision stipulating that if dividends have been skipped or omitted in the past‚ the holder will receive accumulated dividends in arrears. Furthermore‚ preferred stockholders will also receive dividend payouts before common shareholders. A cumulative preferred share can also be classified further by priority or preference‚ which will indicate its seniority over other preferred stocks and common shares during dividend payouts. If a dividend
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