Business Proposal Business Proposal ECO/561 August 08‚ 2011 Abstract Will Bury‚ an enterprising inventor‚ is convinced that soon everyone will be reading or listening to everything digitally‚ including books that have been mostly available in hard copy. He knows that there are books on CD‚ but these are relatively expensive and have been recorded using human readers. He also knows that there is technology that can transform the printed word into audio‚ but the sound is somewhat inhuman.
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1. Analyze the fast food industry from the point of view of perfect competition. Include the concepts of elasticity‚ utility‚ costs‚ and market structure to explain the prices charged by fast food retailers. Firms within the fast food industry fall under the market structure of perfect competition. Market structure is a classification system for the key traits of a market. The characteristics of perfect competition include: large number of buyers and sellers‚ easy entry to and exit from the
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Week 2 Learning Team Deliverable - Team B Misty DeMoss‚ Josefina Nowlin‚ Tiffany Richardson ECO/561 - Economics April 27‚ 2015 Dr. Guthlac Anyalezu Week 2 Learning Team Deliverable - Team B This week‚ Learning Team B reflected on the prior week’s assignment. We all agreed that the most significant take-away from the week’s lesson was the total-revenue test. The total-revenue test is a way to determine if a product is elastic (a decrease in price that will increase the total revenue and vice-versa)
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Homework #3: Question 1. Problem and Application 4 on page 285. Please work on a‚ b‚ c‚ d‚ and e only. That is‚ ignore f. When you reconstruct the table in your work‚ please lower the space for Marginal Product and Marginal Cost by a half step. In other words‚ the first entries of Marginal Product and Marginal Cost should be aligned with the second entries of other columns. (50 points) Table of Costs: Worker Output Marginal Product Total Cost Average Total Cost Marginal Cost 0 0 --
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B. Answers to Short-Answer‚ Essays‚ and Problems 1. What are the major features of monopolistic competition compared to pure competition and pure monopoly? In monopolistic competition‚ there are a relatively large number of firms‚ not the thousands of firms as in pure competition. The monopolistically competitive firms produce differentiated products‚ not the standardized products of pure competition. Product differentiation means that monopolistic competitors engage in some price competition
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Chapter 15 Monopoly 1. Monopolies use their market leverage to a. charge prices that equal minimum average total cost. b. attain normal profits in the long run. c. restrict output and increase price. d. dump excess supplies of their product on the market. ANSWER: c restrict output and increase price. SECTION: 1 OBJECTIVE: 1 2. If government officials break a natural monopoly up into several smaller firms‚ then a. competition will force firms to attain
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Perfect competitive is a market structure characterized by many small firms‚ which sells homogeneous product‚ easy entry and exit‚ and perfect knowledge of market. In the long run‚ perfect competitive firms only earn normal profit. This is due to the easy entry and exit of firms into the market. Easy entry is mean that a new firm can easily enter the market if it established supernormal profit in the short run‚ new firms enter the industry and this increase the supply of the product. As result
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1. What is the impact of the December 1993 shipments of conventional lenses to Bausch and Lomb 1993 financial statements? Is the impact significant? The impact was:- i) Increased revenue by $22M ii) Reduced inventory by 1.8 million pair. Based on the COGS of 45%‚ this could mean a reduction in inventory of close to $10M. iii) There is very little increase in SG&A as not much was spend in terms of sales effort. iv) AR increased significantly with some of the promissory notes are payable in
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Discuss the main factors affecting product pricing in the UK Price – the amount of money which costumer pays for product or service to in order to achieve them‚ or the sum of values that one party exchanges with another to have or use products or services. The main factors which determine price are demand and supply. Demand is a desire of customers to own and the ability to pay for products or use services. Supply is quantity of products or services which are available to sell at the given time
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1. What are Banc One’s problems and why is share price decreasing? The problem with Banc One is that their stock price is going down and is hurting their core growth strategy of acquisitions. Compared with the financial results of the country’s largest 25 bank holding companies‚ Banc One has been very successful during the decade since 1982. It has the highest and most consistent ROA‚ ROE and EPS. Its EPS has been consistently growing for the last 24 years which none of the other banks have been
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