Oil rises above $103 ahead of Iran nuclear talks Published: Thursday‚ 12 Apr 2012 | 5:43 AM ET SINGAPORE - Oil prices rose above $103 a barrel Thursday in Asia as traders looked to negotiations this weekend over Iran’s nuclear program. Benchmark oil for May delivery was up 42 cents to $103.12 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.68 to settle at $102.70 in New York on Wednesday. Brent crude for May delivery
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Section A a. Explain the concept of dominant strategy equilibrium. 1. http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~jkchoi/game4.pdf 2. http://econweb.umd.edu/~borowitz/dominant_strategy_equilibrium.pdf b. Discuss the concept of Nash equilibrium. 1.http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/igt/nash.pdf 2. http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/NashEquilibrium.pdf c. Is every dominant strategy equilibrium a Nash equilibrium? 1. http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/game-theory/nash-equilibrium
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Chapter -1 1. The study of microeconomics includes the study of - Output and employment growth as markets expand in reaction to a rising price level in the economy. - Business investment and government spending in the marketplace. - The number of new jobs and income created as the economy grows. - How firms‚ workers‚ consumers‚ and investors interact and make decisions in the marketplace. Microeconomics is the study of the behavior of individual economic units: consumers‚ firms‚ workers
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MICROECONOMICS CHAPTER 1 The Market Economy What is to be done? —Lenin When future historians look back on the close of the 20th century‚ one of the most sweeping changes they will note is the collapse of centrally planned economies in Eastern Europe. It is not far off to say that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was won not by the armies of the United States and its allies‚ but by the productive power of Western market economies. Mikhail Gorbachev‚ then leader of the Soviet
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Microeconomics study guide Chapter 6 Notes: Firms and Production A firm converts inputs into outputs What firms want: 1. Profit : π = R - C 2. efficient production to maximize π -efficient production alone is not sufficient to ensure a firm’s π is maximized How they are organized 1. information exchange 2. incentives for workers Production Function q = f(L‚K) relationship b/w quantities of inputs used & max quantity of output that can be produced given current knowledge about
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Limited resourcesTime‚ money. * Inability to satisfy all of our wants * Faced with scarcity we must choose among available alternatives * Trade offs * Incentive: Reward that encourages and action or penalty that discourages * Microeconomics: Choices of: * Individuals * Businesses * The way these choices interact in markets and the influence of the government * Macroeconomics: * Study of the performance of the national economy and the global economy * E.g.
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I. MICROECONOMIC Micro-environment is preferred as ‘the operating system’ which includes the forces that has significant impacts on and can affect the organization’s ability to operate and serve its customer (Chaffey et al‚ 2009). This is influenced by the need of customers and how services are provided to them through the competitors‚ marketing intermediaries‚ and suppliers within the marketplace (Chaffey et al‚ 2009). 1. Customer Airasia provides to its customers the basic flight carrier
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Fundamentals of Microeconomics In the world today product and services are both key to the survival of mankind. Depending on the demand from consumers‚ companies will see an increase or decrease of the items they produce or the service rendered. In the article of trends in US gasoline and ethanol use and petroleum production and imports these items will be looked at; as well as a discussion of the fundamentals of microeconomics. First‚ in order to understand what the fundamentals of microeconomics are
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The notion of “fairness” is often the justification given for the government intervention in the market. Do you agree or disagree. 1.0 Introduction Fairness in the market can be defined as the equally distribution in the proportion of economic pie to every party. In the past‚ the economic prosperity is not uniformly allocated among the members of society. The wealthier will have a larger proportion of the economic pie whereas the poorer parties will only occupy a smaller part of the economic
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