Demand‚ Supply‚ Market Equilibrium and Elasticity A. Elasticity of demand is shown when the demands for a service or goods vary according to the price. Cross-price elasticity is shown by a change in the demand for an item relative to the change in the price of another. For substitutes‚ when there is a price increase of an item‚ there is an increase in the demand for another item. When viewing complements‚ if there is an increase in the price of an item‚ the demand
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Evaluating Market Structures Economics 212 Abstract Many types of market structures exist‚ with each market structure proving more effective than the other for certain firms. If a firm choses to enter a different market structure then that firm’s financial success will either diminish or flourish accordingly; the latter is usually the case regarding monopolistic competition market structures in the short run. Firms in this market structure must compete by using strategies‚ hiring skilled labor‚ evaluating
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Session Three Money Demand and Money Supply Demand for Money: Liquidity preference of a particular individual depends upon several considerations. The question is: Why should the people hold their resources liquid or in the form of ready money when they can get interest by lending money or buying bonds (a store value of money)? The desire for liquidity arises because of three motives: (i) The transaction motive; (ii) The precautionary motive; (iii) The speculative motive. The Transaction
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Indian money market The India money market is a monetary system that involves the lending and borrowing of short-term funds. India money market has seen exponential growth just after the globalization initiative in 1992. It has been observed that financial institutions do employ money market instruments for financing short-term monetary requirements of various sectors such as agriculture‚ finance and manufacturing. The performance of the India money market has been outstanding in the past 20 years
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Q. After a few years of using the fiat system‚ the country of Malposneria decides to review its monetary institutions. Its economy has been quite volatile. Inflation has been high and the currency has depreciated. All this has caused foreign investment to drop dramatically. Currently‚ its central bankers are elected every two years. The country is considering a gold standard versus an independent central bank. What’s the best way to go? Why? Answer: Maplosneria should consider independent
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creates shortage or surplus. Price Ceiling – A maximum price at which a good can be sold. Price Floor – Minimum price buyers are required to pay for a good. Elasticity The price elasticity of demand is computed as the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price. That is‚ Price elasticity of demand=ED= Percentage change in quantity demand Percentage change in price Where: %▲D > %▲P (1) = Elastic demand %▲D < %▲P (1) = Inelastic Demand
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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. There are four market structures that businesses fall into; a monopoly‚ an oligopoly‚ a monopolistic competitor‚ and
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competition and oligopoly affect price and output determination in these market structures. Both monopolistic competition (MPC) and oligopoly generally determine price and output based on the profit-maximising condition that marginal cost (MC) equals to marginal revenue (MR). Due to the different features of both monopolistic competition and oligopoly such as the barriers to entry (BTE)‚ which affects the number of sellers as well as market power‚ nature of product and possibility of enjoying economies
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Chapter 3 International Financial Markets South-Western/Thomson Learning © 2006 Chapter Objectives To describe the background and corporate use of the following international financial markets: foreign exchange market‚ international money market‚ international credit market‚ international bond market‚ and international stock markets. 3-2 Motives for Using International Financial Markets • The markets for real or financial assets are prevented from full
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Question 1‚ part (a) What is elasticity? The term elasticity is defined as a way to measure how responsive doe’s quantity demanded or quantity demanded towards its determinants (Mankiw‚ 2008). In this world today‚ every government need revenue or income in order to increase the welfare of citizens and improve the country itself. One of the ways that government use in order to increase their revenue is by taxation. To do so‚ government needs to impose taxes on goods and services. If tax is imposed on a
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