Creating an Economic Strategy for Taiwan Prof. Michael E. Porter Harvard Business School Global Leaders Forum Taipei‚ Taiwan April 8‚ 2010 This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter’s articles and books‚ including‚ The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press‚ 1990)‚ “The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development‚” in The Global Competitiveness Report‚ (World Economic Forum)‚ “Clusters and the New Competitive Agenda for Companies and Governments” in On Competition
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Elektra Electronics Company is a business division of a mid-sized company focused on manufacturing and selling a high quality consumer electronic device through high-end marketing channels such as specialty shops and exclusive department stores. These specialty outlets advise and educate customers about the desirable features of different electronic devices. Elektra charges on average 500 per unit to its distributors‚ who mark it up to 899 when selling to retail customers. After many years of high
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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of aid as a strategy for economic development. Aid is a term used for major financial and material donations given from a donor country to a recipient country. Aid can be given directly from the donor government to the recipient government (bilateral aid)‚ or go from donor to recipient through an international organization such as the World Bank (multilateral aid). It can also take the form of loans from banks to the recipient country‚ or donations managed
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149 Control w it h fairness in transfer pricing A transfer price is useless unless unit managers feel they are being treated fairly while top management retains control Robert G. Eccles It seems straightforward on the face of it: when a unit in a company sells a product to another unit‚ it ought to charge a fair price. That price may be based on what it cost to make the product‚ or on the market price of the product‚ or on some combination of these two. But as most managers
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Chapter 1‚ Basic Microeconomic principles TC function: Represent the relationship between total cost and output‚ assuming that the firm produces in the most efficient manner possible given its current technological capabilities. Semifixed: fixed over certain ranges of output but variable over other ranges AC(Q): average cost function; describes how the firms average cost function or per unit of output costs vary with the amount of output it produces. When average costs decreases as output
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ECONM2035: Asset Pricing Evarist Stoja (2B7‚ x10603) e.stoja@bristol.ac.uk Outline: This course runs over the autumn term and aims to provide a thorough grounding in the pricing of financial securities. The lectures start with some quantitative review material before moving on to bond pricing. Equity markets and determination of equity prices are treated next before students are introduced to the theory behind and testing procedures for informational efficiency in financial markets. Finally
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MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: Analyzing Strategic Behavior in Business Chapter 2 Demand and Supply MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: Analyzing Strategic Behavior in Business Thomas J. Webster 1 Lecture Overview • • • • • • • • • • Introduction Law of demand Demand determinants Estimating the market demand equation Consumer surplus Law of supply Supply determinants Producer surplus Market equilibrium Changes in demand and supply: Price and output determination 2 Introduction • In this lecture‚ we
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2.2 Pricing Strategy 2.2.1 Factors affecting pricing decisions Milo is considered as a product of monopolistic competition market because there are many competitors of Milo in the market. Some of the competitors include Vico‚ Ovaltine‚ Horlicks‚ Dutch Lady and Nutrilite. Secondly‚ monopolistic competition market has free market entry and exit. This means that new competitors can enter the market easily and Milo may be easily force out of the market by its competitors. Monopolistic competition
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Pricing productsIntroduction Products and services have a price just as they have a value. Many non-profit and all profit-making organizations must also set prices. Pricing is controversial and goes by many names: Price is all around us. You pay rent for your apartment‚ tuition for your education. The airline‚ railway‚ taxi and bus companies charge you a/are; the local utilities call their price a rate; and the local bank charges you interest for the money you borrow ; the guest lecturer charges
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Abuse of dominance: Predatory Pricing Submitted by: Radhika Sahay (Intern; May 2012 – June 2012) ------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 5 CASES 6 LIST OF BOOKS‚ JOURNAL ARTICLES‚ REPORTS 8 LIST OF STATUTES REFFERED 11 CHAPTER1: BACKGROUND 12 CHAPTER 2: ABUSE OF DOMINANCE 15 2.1 Relevant Market: 16 2.2 Dominant Position: 20 a. Indian Position on indentifying “dominance” 20 DEFINITION OF DOMINANCE AND KEY ELEMENTS: 22 IMPORTANCE
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