Any person or company that wants to open a new business or develop a new product needs to understand where the product or business fits within today’s society. Knowing where their product fits within the market structures will help the business owners in determining how to market their services or products. They also must know the number of consumers that require the product or service. This will give the local economy as well as global economy a much greater chance to accept the business or service
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Home work questions Define the following 1. Costs in economics are those things that must be given up in order to have something else. 2. Revenues are the income earned from a firm’s sale of its good or service to consumers in the product market. 3. Profit is the difference between a firm’s total revenues and its total costs. 4. Explicit costs are the monetary payments that firms make to the owners of land‚ labor‚ and capital in the resource market. (i.e. rent‚ wages and interest respectively)
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CHAPTER 6| Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply SOLUTIONS TO END-OF-CHAPTER EXERCISES Answers to Thinking Critically Questions 1. Even if the overall demand for gasoline is inelastic‚ a revenue increase for Joe’s Gas-and-Go will occur only if the percentage increase in price is greater than the percentage decrease in quantity demanded. If Joe’s price increase is too large and Joe has other competitors who do not raise their prices‚ then it is possible that the percentage
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Unit 1 Assignment Chapter 4 1. What is a competitive market? Briefly describe a type of market that is not perfectly competitive A competitive market is a market with many buyers and sellers trading identical products so that each buyer and seller is a price taker (Mankiw‚ p.66). Local energy provider is not a perfect market but a monopoly because there in only one provider. 2. What are the demand schedule and the demand curve‚ and how are they related? Why does the demand curve
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CHAPTER Perfect Competition 11 After studying this chapter you will be able to ! Define perfect competition ! Explain how firms make their supply decisions and why they sometimes shut down temporarily and lay off workers ! Explain how price and output in an industry are determined and why firms enter and leave the industry ! Predict the effects of a change in demand and of a technological advance ! Explain why perfect competition is efficient The Busy Bee The busy
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Chapter 2. Demand and Supply Markets A market is where buyers and sellers come together to carry out an economic transaction. Markets may be physical places where goods or services are exchanged for money‚ but there are other ways that economic transactions may be made‚ such as online markets. Product markets: the place where goods and services are bought and sold Factor markets (labor market): the place where the factors of production are bought and sold. Financial markets (e.g. foreign
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Chapter 9 1. All firms‚ no matter what type of firm structure they are producing in‚ make their production decisions based on where: marginal revenue equals marginal costs. 2. According to the table below‚ when profits are maximized‚ profits are equal to: $2. 3. Many economists believe that the market for wheat in the United States is an almost perfectly competitive market. If one firm discovers a technology that makes their wheat taste better and have fewer calories than all other wheat
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Chapter 4 2. Why do economists use percentages rather than absolute amounts in measuring the responsiveness of consumers to changes in price? Why do economists use percentages rather than absolute amounts in measuring the responsiveness of consumers to changes in price? Economists use percentages rather than absolute amounts for two different reasons. The first reason for using percentages rather than absolute amounts has to do with the affect a particular amount can have on demand.
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Economics IB past paper questions Structural questions 1. (a) “The price elasticity of demand and the price elasticity of supply for many primary commodities tend to be low.” Explain what is meant by this statement‚ and how this contributes to the problem of price instability for primary commodity producers. [10 marks] (b) Evaluate the view that it is best to allow primary commodity prices to be determined purely through the free interaction of market forces. [15 marks] 2. Explain what
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the mark schemes for the October/November 2009 question papers for most IGCSE‚ GCE Advanced Level and Advanced Subsidiary Level syllabuses and some Ordinary Level syllabuses. www.xtremepapers.net Page 2 1 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version GCE O LEVEL – October/November 2009 Syllabus 2281 Paper 02 (a) Explanation of the link between the birth rate‚ the death rate and the net rate of migration. [4] (b) The supply of new workers would decrease‚ wages might possibly increase‚ unless immigration
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