Managerial Economics School of Distance Education Bharathiar University‚ Coimbatore - 641 046 Author: Atmanand Copyright © 2007‚ Bharathiar University All Rights Reserved Produced and Printed by EXCEL BOOKS PRIVATE LIMITED A-45‚ Naraina‚ Phase-I‚ New Delhi-110028 for SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION Bharathiar University Coimbatore-641046 CONTENTS Page No. UNIT-I Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Managerial Economics: Definition
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Discussion Questions for the Aluminum Case Group: 1. Conduct a S-C-P analysis for the Aluminum industry. Is primary aluminum production industry an attractive(profitable) industry? Why and why not. 2. Using information in the case and the data from the attached spreadsheet‚ construct the industry supply curve for primary aluminum. Please note the marginal costs are used to derive the supply curve and be careful as to what cost items can be counted as “marginal” costs. DO NOT use regressions
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Chapter 15: Decisions Under Risk and Uncertainty Answers to Applied Problems 1. a. At the maximax rule the firm should operate plants in US‚ Mexico‚ Canada b. At the maximin rule the firm should operate plants in US only c. The potential regret matrix is: OINC Passes OINC Fails OINC Stalls US only 10 million 0 2 million US and Mexico 5 million 3 million 2.5 million US‚ Mexico‚ Canada 0 5 million 0 And the maximum potential regrets are: US only 10 million US and Mexico
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SUPPLY‚ DEMAND AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES When analyzing government policies‚ supply and demand are the first and most useful tools of analysis. Price controls such as‚ price ceiling‚ price floor and tax incidence mentioned in this chapter show how price controls affect economy. Price ceiling is a legal maximum on the price at which a good can be sold and price floor is a legal minimum on the price at which a good can be sold. Evaluating
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Economics Unit 2: How Markets Work Investigating Price Changes Portfolio Project Part 1: Chapter 6 Wall Street Journal Questions 1) Why are sports teams considering switching to a variable–pricing strategy for tickets? Sports teams are switching to a variable-pricing strategy for tickets so that they can get a higher profit on games with record attendance numbers. They feel the need to do so because the marginal costs‚ such as construction payment and players’ salaries‚ did not equal to the marginal
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In the ERPSim game‚ our team (Team G) encountered productivity problems‚ low company valuation‚ and low sales revenue. In fact‚ all of the challenges affected my role as a Sales Manager. Regardless of the problems‚ our objective is to efficiently deliver the products in response to the market demand. Our product mix is consisted of Blueberry‚ Mix Fruit‚ and Raisin Muesli‚ for we were concerned of raw material cost and market trend towards fruits. During the practice game‚ we observed that consumes
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KUMAUN UNIVERSITY NAINITAL ANNUAL EXAMINATION SCHEME 2013 Programme of M. A. (Previous) & M.A. (Final) |Day & Date |SUBJECT |PAPER / TIME | | | |11 AM- 2 PM | |Thursday‚ 18.4.13 |1. English (Previous)
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CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The theoretical framework of the thesis is multidisciplinary in approach. First‚ tourism impacts and tourism in the Gross Domestic Product are pooled into the framework to better understand the impact of tourism in the whole economy. Finally‚ general equilibrium theories and the theoretical structure of an applied CGE model are briefly discussed to better understand the framework under which the tourism sub-sector interacts with the other sectors‚ sub-sectors
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WHAT ARE COSTS AND PROFITS? HUNGRY HELEN’S COOKIE FACTORY • Helen‚ the owner of the cookie factory‚ buys flour‚ sugar‚ flavorings‚ and other cookie ingredients. • She also buys the mixers and the ovens and hires workers to run the equipment. • She then sells the resulting cookies to consumers. 2 TOTAL REVENUE‚ TOTAL COST‚ AND PROFIT • The amount that Helen receives for the sale of its output (cookies) is its total revenue. • The amount that the firm pays to buy inputs (flour‚ sugar‚ workers
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Evaluate the view that‚ because price discrimination enables firms to make more profit‚ firms‚ but not consumers‚ benefit from price discrimination Price discrimination is where a firm changes different consumers different prices for the same service. Consumer Surplus is the difference between what the consumer is willing to pay and the price they actually have to pay. In all three degrees of price discrimination firms are able to make more profit and eliminate any excess capacity they
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