Expansion and Merger Dr. Elkanah Faux Managerial Economics & Globali ECO 550 February 26‚ 2012 Explain why government regulation is needed‚ citing the major reasons for government involvement in a market economy. If we look into the history of the movie industry we will find that the government intervened in the 1940’s in the movie industry. With that intervention it changed the way movies were produced in some critics’ opinion for the worst. Critics will tell you that the quality
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Naked Economics Assignment After reading the book‚ please complete the following questions for discussion. Your responses must be typed‚ and they will be collected on the first day of class. Chapter 1: The Power of Markets • What are the two basic assumptions that economists make about individuals and firms? • What is the role and significance of prices in the market economy? • What’s so great about a market economy anyway? Market allocation 3 / Assume rational utility-maximizers 6 /
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Q1. A. “The objective of economic analysis is not merely to discover the truth but also to assist in the solution of concrete problems.” Comment. Economic analysis provides a systematic approach for studying the allocation of resources to achieve an organization’s objectives. Techniques of economic analysis help ensure efficient operations‚ minimize overhead and compare costs and benefits Function • Economic analysis provides a systematic approach for industry‚ government agencies and nonprofit
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businesses sell products and buy resources Which is a normative statement? The unemployment rate of 6.8 percent is too high. The market system is a method of communicating and coordinating economic decisions Property rights encourage investment‚ innovation‚ exchange‚ maintenance of property‚ and economic growth. True In a market system‚ the government owns most of the property resources (land and capital). False An \"innovator\" is defined as an entrepreneur who introduces new products on the
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ECONOMICS Economic Problem * Unlimited wants‚ limited resources Economic Systems * Questions to answer: 1. What to produce? 2. How much to produce? 3. How to produce? 4. For whom to produce? * Criteria to classify economic systems 1. Productive resources owned by private individuals (private sector) or government (public sector) 2. Role of market forces of demand and supply in allocating resources‚ determining prices‚ distributing incomes 3. Role of government in production
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Economics of Strategy What are the distinctions among fixed costs‚ sunk costs‚ variable costs and marginal costs? Fixed costs‚ such as SG&A expenses‚ property taxes‚ remain constant as output increases; FC are invariant to output. Variable costs‚ such as labor and sales commissions‚ increases as output increases; VC are variant to output Sunk costs are costs that cannot be avoided; avoidable costs are its opposites; some sunk costs need not be fixed. Marginal costs is the incremental cost
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– Summary of main points • Voluntary transactions create wealth by moving assets from lowerto higher-valued uses. • Anything that impedes the movement of assets to higher-valued uses‚ like taxes‚ subsidies‚ or price controls‚ destroys wealth. • Economic analysis is useful to business for identifying assets in lower-valued uses. • The art of business consists of identifying assets in low-valued uses and devising ways to profitably move them to higher-valued ones. • A company can be thought of as
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market value of the firm’s common stock. (True/False) TRUE 7. Which of the following statements best represents what finance is about? C a. How political‚ social‚ and economic forces affect corporations b. Maximizing profits c. Creation and maintenance of economic wealth d. Reducing risk 8. The goal of the firm should be: A a. Maximization of profits. b. Maximization of shareholder wealth. c.
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Expectations An economic forecast tries to predict the future of the economy based on several factors including housing prices‚ unemployment rate‚ GDP and interest rates. Expectations in the U.S. economy in the year 2013 are slightly improving over the last several years of a dismal outlook. Over the last several years‚ housing prices had been dropping rapidly‚ but in the last year‚ prices have leveled off and are slightly on the rise again. This implies that there is a growing demand for houses
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experience in home countries. the inherent disadvantage that foreign firms experience in home countries. Question 5 An institutional framework if made up of: regulatory and cognitive pillars. formal and informal institutions. the political‚ economic‚ and legal systems of countries. None of these answers. Question 6 According to the institution-based view‚ in situations where ____ constraints are unclear or fail‚ ____ constraints will play a larger role in reducing uncertainty and providing
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