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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overall demand for iPods. Price elasticity is a tool designed to identify the overall change in demand or supply of a product compared to the overall movement of price. For the sake of this paper‚ we will focus on the overall change in demand from consumers. Elasticity is calculated by creating a ratio of the percentage change in demand of a good compared to the percentage change in price. If the percentage change in demand is greater than the percentage change in price‚ the product would have a
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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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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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Price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) is often used for assessing the company’s stock price. P/E is determined by first calculating the earnings per shares (EPS)‚ which is the post-tax profits divides by the number of shares (Figure 1). Trailing P/E is equal to current market share price divided by trailing earnings per share for the past 12 months‚ whereas forward P/E is equal to current share price divided by expected earnings per shares for the next 12 months or next full-year fiscal period (http://www
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320. As of 2006‚ the average manufacture’s suggested retail price for a 330ci was $37‚600 as compared to $45‚750 for a CLK 320. Gas mileage for the 330ci is 30 mpg on the highway and 20 mpg in the city as compared to 28 mpg on the highway and 19 mpg in the city for the CLK 320. Discussion 1. Suppose Mercedes is concerned that dealer price of the CLK 320 are not consistent and that even though the average price is $45‚750‚ actual prices are normally distributed with a standard deviation of $2‚981
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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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