1. Consider a personal computer market with two firms‚ X and Y. Suppose that Firm X and Y have the following total cost function: TCX=10QXTCY=10QY . The market is given by P=100-QX-QY. (a) Calculate the Cournot equilibrium outputs of firm X and Y in this market. (b) Calculate their market price in the Cournot equilibrium. (c) Calculate their profits in the Cournot equilibrium. (d) Suppose that firm X is considering implementing a proprietary technology they have developed. The onetime sunk cost
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Wage determination in perfect and imperfect markets Perfect competition In perfect labor markets‚ everyone is wage taker – both the employee and the employer. On the one hand‚ the employer and his firm cannot control the market as there are too numerous firms and the firm is price taker on the product market and labor market. On the other hand‚ the workers cannot control their wage as they have no economic power to do so or they are of a clearly definite type. In perfect competition there
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affect consumers/producers? 5 What is likely to be the price and income elasticity of demand for its main products? 6 If the firm is operating in an imperfect market‚ and it’s very likely to be‚ which type is it and why‚ and what are the implications for the consumer? 7 What are the characteristics of the firm’s labour markets in both economies and how have these affected its business? Macro Questions 8 Which of the major trading blocs does the company operate in and how does this
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Imperfect Competition In a perfectly competitive market—a market in which there is many buyers and sellers‚ none of whom represents a large part of the market—firms are price takers. That is‚ they are sellers of products who believe they can sell as much as they like at the current price but cannot influence the price they receive for their product. For example‚ a wheat farmer can sell as much wheat as she likes without worrying that if she tries to sell more wheat‚ she will depress the market
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Perfectly imperfect! I’m Hime‚ a senior high school‚ who had a dream and tried to make it happen but‚ it seems like time and chances don’t want me to reach my dreams. I cry without tears in front of all people and laugh with drams of tears when I’m alone. Could you imagine that a big childlike girl puts her hands up while fighting? I’m trying to survive while I’m half alive‚ and struggling to live although thorns and spikes hug me so tight‚ while deeply breathing. “Nobody’s perfect.” No‚ that’s
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Imperfect healthcare The fundamental basis of economics is that the resources we have are scarce‚ such idea holds true in the health care sector of the economy. Health economics helps us understand how the scarce resources the health care system are allocated among the many competing uses for those resources to satisfy our health care needs. In a market‚ there is a process of voluntary exchange between a buyer and a seller for a service or good. In the health sector the buyer; is the consumer
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In this topic‚ we will discuss the difference between perfect and imperfect competition‚ and explain how imperfect competition may have affected the growth and development of the telecommunications sector in Malaysia. 3.1 The difference between perfect and imperfect competition It is traditional to divide industries into categories according to the degree of competition that exists between the firms within the industry. There are four such categories. At one extreme is perfect competition‚ where
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The idea of what a perfect family is has many different viewpoints‚ and many different opinions. Is it a family where everybody always gets along? Everybody has their own idea of what a so called ‘perfect’ family is‚ in respect to their own. The topic can create a large discussion because there are many different viewpoints on the topic. Some people may say that a perfect family is the family with the working dad‚ the stay home mother‚ the two perfect children‚ and the white picket fence. It’s the
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Reid’s Imperfect Identity Theory and Theseus’ Ship February 11‚ 2013 PP111-B Dr. Dwayne Moore Word Count: 1‚021 Theseus’ Ship set sail with a cargo of lumber‚ and each day‚ Theseus used the lumber to replace parts of the ship. By the time it arrived at its destination‚ the cargo was empty and all the parts of the ship had been replaced. Was it still the same ship? And if not‚ at what point did it stop being the same ship? Was it when the first change was made? When Theseus replaced half
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The theory of contestable markets‚ along with the static and dynamic views of competition‚ are used as theories to analyse how markets perform. The static view focuses on the structure of the market as the determining factor of competition‚ with the dynamic view focusing on dynamic aspects such as technology and entrepreneurship. The contestable markets theory has a different focus‚ focusing on the importance of barriers to entry and exit. Nonetheless it does incorporate features from both views
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