Seminar 4 - Industrial Economics Week 16: beginning November 14th 2011 Price Competition and Bertrand Model Discussion Questions 1. Suppose firm 1 and firm 2 each produce the same product and face a market demand curve described by: Q = 5000 - 200P Firm 1 has a unit cost of production c1 equal to 6 whereas firm 2 has a higher unit cost of production c2 equal to 10. a. What is the Bertrand-Nash equilibrium outcome? b. What are the profits for each firm? c. Is this outcome efficient
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Production and Perfect Competition ECON220 The firm currently uses 50‚000 workers to produce 200‚000 units of output per day. The daily wage per worker is $80‚ and the price of the firm’s output is $25. The cost of other variable inputs is $400‚000 per day. Assume that total fixed cost equals $1‚000‚000. Calculate the values for the following four formulas: • Total Variable Cost = (Number of Workers * Worker’s Daily Wage) + Other Variable Costs • Average Variable Cost = Total Variable Cost
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Competition‚ Predation‚ and Symbiosis — Graphic Organizer Objective : To identify the ways that organisms interact with other organisms within their environment. Natural selection is a process through which characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its environment may eventually become common in that species. Adaption is a result of natural selection in the behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to live successfully in their environment. A niche is the role of an organism in its habitat
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until it was equal to the minimum point of the long-run average cost curve (at that point‚ there would be no supernormal profit remaining and hence firms would stop entering and the price would stop falling). 2. If the industry under perfect competition faces a downward-sloping demand curve‚ why does an individual firm
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Direct and Indirect competition The water industry as many other industries has direct and indirect competitors; the direct competitors are companies that are producing the same line of products and indirect competitors are the ones that are selling something that your customers or potential buyers may use as an alternate or substitute of your products. An example of direct competitor is Seychelle Water Filtration company‚ they are a fast growing water company. They have complete portable water
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Case #3: "COMPETITION IN THE GOLF EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY” From its earliest beginnings in the 1450’s‚ golf was a peculiar game that tested the individual skill of each person who played. It is a game that takes a player on a journey through a number of “greens.” The player must try to get the small‚ hard golf ball into the “green” or “putting green” which contains a hole in the ground. The player can only hit the ball with a golf club. Golf equipment‚ such as golf clubs‚ golf balls‚ and the like
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Perfect Competition of Wheat Crops and Variable Cost Basic theme Farmers gamble on deciding what crop to grow from year to year because variable costs can make it difficult for a farmer to break even and make profit. Critical Review Farmers who decided to grow wheat crops in winter are predicted to see profit this spring based on the estimated costs. Farmers have to almost blindly decide on which crop might be most profitable for them to grow because their total variable costs are always changing
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CHAPTER 12 MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION AND OLIGOPOLY REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What are the characteristics of a monopolistically competitive market? What happens to the equilibrium price and quantity in such a market if one firm introduces a new‚ improved product? The two primary characteristics of a monopolistically competitive market are (1) that firms compete by selling differentiated products which are highly‚ but not perfectly‚ substitutable and (2) that there is free entry
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0 out of 1 points Private markets will always provide too few public goods because Selected Answer: Incorrect [None Given] Answers: of the negative externalities associated with these goods. it is unlawful for private firms to provide public goods. private markets will never provide goods that they know the government could provide. the private marginal cost is less than the social marginal cost. Correct private markets will never provide goods at a price of zero‚ which is the efficient
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Microsoft was once a leader in smartphone operating systems. The introduction of the iPhone and the popularity of smartphones caused a decline in Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. Some of the top cell phone makers who used Windows Mobile‚ Microsoft’s operating system‚ are making phones that use Android‚ Google’s new operating system. Motorola has completely switched to Android‚ and Dell’s first cell phone‚ the mini 3‚ is using Android. The four major wireless carriers in the United States will offer
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