wage and price controls in response to exceptionally high inflation rates. However‚ Wage and price controls are government restrictions on the rate at which wages and prices may rise during a specific time period. They are most often imposed during wartime to prevent profiteering and steep rises in the price of rare consumer goods. Many nations‚ including Canada‚ instituted a system of both price controls and rationing during WWII to prevent the exploiting and steeply rising prices that might
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|food |clothing | |2002 price |$4 |$10 | |2003 price |$6 |$20 | a. What are the percentage increases in the price of food and in the price of clothing? b. What is the percentage increase in the CPI? c. Do these price changes affect all consumers to the same extent? Explain. [ii]. Which is likely
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Question 5 – Transfer Price Division A‚ which is part of the ACF Group‚ manufactures only one type of product‚ a Bit‚ which it sells to external customers and also to division C‚ another member of the group. ACF Group’s policy is that divisions have the freedom to set transfer prices and choose their suppliers. The ACF Group uses residual income (RI) to assess divisional performance and each year it sets each division a target RI. The group’s cost of capital is 12% a year. Division A Budgeted
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Price controls are usually justified as a way to help consumers‚ but those who advocate them often ignore their incentive effects. Consider‚ for example‚ rent controls‚ a popular form of a price ceiling. If the demand curve and the short-run supply curves are inelastic‚ then a sizable drop in rents may result in a very small shortage. The benefits to consumers (lower prices) will‚ in the judgment of most‚ clearly outweigh the costs to consumers (less housing). Further‚ the short-run supply of housing
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of generic strategies (overall cost leadership‚ differentiation‚ focus) ➢ Describe each of the strategies ➢ Provide examples of firms that have successfully attained as a means of outperforming competitors in their industry ➢ Address how these strategies help a firm develop a favourable position vis-à-vis the five forces ➢ Pitfalls managers must avoid if to pursue successfully these generic strategies ➢ Conditions under which firms may effectively combine generic strategies to outperform
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1. Was the country wrong? Why India? No‚ the country was not wrong. India had a large number of populations. There were 800 million people in India and about 200 million to 300 million of them were middle class. It implied that India had a huge market. Lilly could expand the potential opportunities and got profits in India. In addition‚ foreign direct investment was encouraged by increasing the maximum limit of foreign ownership to 51 per cent (from 40 percent) in the drugs and pharmaceutical
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you be certain that your expectations would be met? 2. If most investors expect the same cash flows from Companies A and B but are more confident that Company A’s cash flow will be close to their expected value‚ which should have the higher stock price? Explain. 3. When is a stock said to be in equilibrium? At any given time‚ would you guess that most stocks are in equilibrium as you defined it? Explain. 4. Suppose three completely honest individuals gave you their estimates of Stock X’s intrinsic
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How Oil Prices Affect the Price of Food By Post Carbon | Wed‚ 21 December 2011 18:07 The current global food system is highly fuel- and transport-dependent. Fuels will almost certainly become less affordable in the near and medium term‚ making the current‚ highly fuel-dependent agricultural production system less secure and food less affordable. It is therefore necessary to promote food self-sufficiency and reduce the need for fuel inputs to the food system at all levels. The connection between
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The Price of Fame Almost everybody dreams about being famous sport star or a great actor. But does everybody know how hard it is to have such kind of job? In my opinion being famous is very difficult and people who are famous deserve all the money they earn. A star should be polite and kind because he or she is an example to be followed for many young people. Famous people work hard long hours every day and do their best for their fans. Also I think that famous people don’t have private lives‚
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