NMIMS Global Access School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Business Economics SEM – I 1. Calculate Elasticity in the following cases: a) Assume that a business firm sells a product at the price of Rs 500. The firm has decided to reduce the price of the product to Rs 400. Consequently‚ the demand for the product is raised from 20‚000 units to 25‚000 units. Calculate the price elasticity of demand. ANSWER A: PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND: MEANING: Price elasticity of demand
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$500‚000 x 14% = $70‚000 Explicit Costs: What is paid for products/services = $80‚000 Total Economic Costs: Implicit Costs + Explicit Costs = $70‚000 + $80‚000 = $150‚000 b) Economic Profit: Total Revenues – Total Economic Cost = $175‚000 - $150‚000 = $25‚000 c) Accounting Profit: Total Revenues – Explicit Costs = $175‚000 - $80‚000 = $95‚000 d) New Implicit Costs = $500‚000 x 20% = $100‚000 Economic Profit: $175‚000 – ($100‚000 + $80‚000) = $ (5‚000) Chapter Two Technical Problem 1 Qd
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other economic sciences‚ sports economics mainly discuss the relationship between sports and economics‚ and about how limited sports resources are effectively allocated. Sports this special cultural phenomenon has the inseparable connection with social and economic phenomenon. Economy is the foundation of sports emergence and development‚ whose development restricts sports development. At the same time‚ the scale and development level of sports can reflect the status and level of economic development
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BUSINESS TOURISM MANAGEMENT EA [pic] INDIVIDUAL REPORT Business tourism can be defined as a convention‚ in the sense of a meeting‚ is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest. Business tourism industry is growing rapidly worldwide.Business tourism is having its own features which define it from the other types of tourism‚ and I would mention it in order to explain the importance of the industry
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1A) What is the definition of opportunity cost? The best alternative that we forgo‚ or give up‚ when we make a choice or a decision is called the opportunity cost of that decision. 1B) Eason wants to spend $15 to buy a pack of sandwiches or a bowl of fish-ball noodles form a street hawker. Explain the effect on Eason’s opportunity cost of buying the sandwiches if a cockroach is found inside the noodle soup. Eason’s opportunity cost of buying the sandwiches is a bowl of fish-ball noodles‚ however
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1. Bagel restaurant is likely to be a constant industry because it is in the perfect competition industry. Bagel restaurant is in the perfect competition industry because there are few entry barriers in this industry. Anyone could enter this industry. In the short-run‚ existing firms might get profit just as the case of George’s bagel chain. However‚ in the long-run‚ the profit attracts new competitors into this industry‚ causing price competition. Because each firm will produce at the point where
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Bear” Nicklaus is widely regarded as the greatest golf player of all time‚ with over 73 PGA tour victories including 18 major championships and endless awards. It is this expertize and experience that helped make his organization‚ Nicklaus Companies‚ so undeniably successful as a golf industry empire. Nicklaus Companies provides services and products on a national and international scale including such things as: thorough instructions and insight for golf players and enthusiasts of all ages and abilities
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Of all the games ever invented by man‚ golf‚ in my opinion‚ is by far the greatest. Golf is different than other games. Golf challenges the mind‚ body‚ and soul. Golf is not a game that is meant to be played against other people or even against the course. It is a game that challenges the individual. It forces a person to make decisions that can lead to a feeling of great accomplishment or to a feeling of hopelessness and despair. To the average person golf may be just a game‚ but to millions of
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The Dominant Paradigm Behavior change models have been the dominant paradigm in the field of development communication. Different theories and strategies shared the premise that problems of development were basically rooted in lack of knowledge and that‚ consequently‚ interventions needed to provide people with information to change behavior. The early generation of development communication studies was dominated by modernization theory. This theory suggested that cultural and information deficits
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Alternative/dominant and resistant readings Dominant readings are the most common and widely-accepted interpretations of a given text. An alternative reading is any reading that differs from the commonly-accepted interpretation. A resistant reading is an alternative reading that contradicts the dominant reading. Think about the words resistant (the noun form of the verb to ’resist’) and dominant (the noun form of the verb to dominate) and it will help you to retain the meanings of the terminology
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