Managerial Economics & Business Strategy Chapter 4 The Theory of Individual Behavior McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2010 by the McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Overview I. Consumer Behavior – Indifference Curve Analysis. – Consumer Preference Ordering. II. Constraints – The Budget Constraint. – Changes in Income. – Changes in Prices. III. Consumer Equilibrium IV. Indifference Curve Analysis & Demand Curves – Individual Demand. – Market Demand. 4-2 Consumer
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Economics Over the last couple of weeks‚ there has been a lot of valuable information about what economics is and how it works through the presentations and the guest speakers.. Economics is basically the understanding of how different economies function. Economics is the study of how to best allocate scarce resources among competing uses. Scarcity in the economy is the main problem. There are not enough resources to keep up with the demand for them. Within the discipline of economics‚ there
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Name Professor Subject Date Global Managerial Economics The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) form a crucial part of the U.S. economy. The SMEs create the most jobs in the country; they target the ordinary Americans for employment thus making them a very important component of the economy. Without the SMEs‚ the economy will bleed millions of jobs‚ adversely affecting the economy. This is the reasoning behind the drive by President Obama to give this sector newly acquired impetus and promote
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and exit Short Run Firm has some market power and faces downward sloping demand curve Price exceeds marginal cost When P>AC firms earn positive economic profits Long Run Positive economic profits in short run attracts new firms Firm’s market share falls and demand curve shifts down P=AC firms earn 0 economic profit P>MC and 0 economic profits deadweight loss Market in which only a few firms compete with one another‚ and entry by new firms is impeded Oligopoly Environment Few
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CHAPTER 9 Three conditions for a market to be perfectly competitive? Many buyers and sellers‚ with all firms selling identical products‚ and no barriers to new firms entering the market. In perfectly competitive markets‚ prices are determined by The interaction of market demand and supply because firms and consumers are price takers. Price taker Buyer or seller that is unable to affect the market price. A buyer or seller that takes the market price as given When are firms likely to be
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4.) A firm contemplating an advertising campaign that promises to yield $120 one year from now for $100 spent now. Explain why the firm should not undertake the advertising campaign. Because of the Time Value of Money; the $120 might have a Present Value that is lower than the $100 spent now‚ therefore the campaign would have a negative Net Present Value and should not be undertaken. 5.) Determine which of two investment projects a manager should choose if the discount rate of the firm is 10
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1) Discuss the owner-manager conflict within the firm. Provide two real world manifestations of the conflict. Owner-manager conflicts finds it basis on the self-interested behaviors of managers‚ owners and shareholders. Firm managers may have personal goals that conflict with the owner’s goals of maximizing shareholder wealth. Potential conflicts occur when managers seek to maximize their own utility at the expense of the firm’s shareholders. Conflict between owners and managers typically arise
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10% (amounts to $95‚000) cause the seller to adjust the price to $1‚005‚000 and $1‚045‚000. This is above the value placed by the buyer. As such‚ the transaction does not go through. | | | | | * Question 3 1 out of 1 points | | | Economic profits are: Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | b. [Total Sales Revenue] - [Market Value of all the Resources Employed in the Production Process] | Correct Answer: | b. [Total Sales Revenue] - [Market Value of all the Resources Employed
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(Prof. Alfred Marshall) We can define Nat ional Income as t he collective achievement of a nat ion. In t his way‚ t he Nat ional Income is t he aggregat e of t he individual incomes. (Prof. Gardner Ackley) Nat ional Income is t he basic concept of economic‚ which refers t o t he market value of t he goods and services produced during a part icular year. (Prof. Richard Lipsy) CONCEPTS OF NATIONAL INCOme ----1.GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUct Total value of output (goods and services) produced by the factors
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transaction cost economics. Some organizations struggle whether or not to outsource the IT division. The company has two choices for any economic activity: going outside to market or perform the activities in-house. In any case‚ the cost of the activity is divided into production costs‚ and transaction costs. Production costs in the case of the in-house division‚ includes hardware and software‚ whereas the transaction cost‚ which are the activities related to implementing the economic activity includes
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