ECO 550: Managerial Economics and Globalization Assignment #2 1. Office building maintenance plans call for the stripping‚ waxing‚ and buffing of ceramic floor tiles. This work is contracted out to office maintenance firms‚ and both technology and labor requirements are very basic. Supply and demand conditions in this perfectly competitive service market are: QS = 2P - 20 | (Supply) | QD = 80 - 2P | (Demand) | Where Q is thousands of hours of floor reconditioning per month and
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Monopolistic Competition and Efficiency Recall that: • productive efficiency is P= min ATC • Allocative efficiency is P= MC I. A monopolistic competition industry has neither productive nor allocative efficiency A. Marginal revenue curve will never coincide with D=AR=P • in monopolistically competitive market‚ Demand is relatively elastic. Products are somewhat substitutable. B. Firms produce at a point where P>MC‚ meaning that resources are underallocated; not allocatively efficient
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PUTTING THE SERVICE – PROFIT CHAIN TO WORK Group - 5 Introduction: Factors that drives profitability Investment in people Leadership Vision – Patina of spirituality‚ importance of mundane Profitability Technology supporting frontline workers Successful service companies: Banc One‚ Intuit‚ Southwest Airlines‚ Service Master‚ USAA‚ Taco Bell‚ and MCI Compensation linked to performance Recruiting and training practices The Service - Profit Chain • Establishes relationships
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Vimal Kumar Rai A0067543B BMU5003 Economic Analysis For Managers Dr. Ivan Png Individual Assignment 21 April 2010 1. Fertility (D12010‚ #1) a. Referring to the linear trend : (i) If the literacy rate is 60%‚ what is the fertility rate? (ii) If the literacy rate is 100%‚ what is the fertility rate? Answer (i) : 7.8 Answer (ii) : 1.4 b. A large cost of having a baby is the time that a mother must invest to bear and rear the child. For a more educated
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Revenue Management WorkShop 1 Module Name: Planning 2011-2012 WS Objective After attending workshop 1 you should be able to: Provide examples of market segments and sub segments; Explain the relation between segmentation and revenue management; Describe the role of price fencing within revenue management; Describe various terms & conditions used within revenue management; Explain the relation between price‚ purchase conditions & availability; Explain the factors that influence
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Why might a business firm pursue other objectives besides the objective of maximum profits? What objectives other than profit maximisation might a firm pursue? Is this possible in a competitive world? The traditional theory of business behaviour tends to make a general assumption that businesses possess the information‚ market power and motivation to set a price and output that maximises profits. Profits being defined as the difference between the total revenue received by a firm and the total
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Tutorial 1: Markets and Organizations Q1. Case Study [pic] Managing external influences First Group (First) is the UK’s largest transport operator‚ employing more than 137‚000 people in the UK and the USA. In the UK‚ it runs rail services carrying around 275 million passengers a year. It is the UK’s largest bus operator and also runs a rail freight business. In the US‚ it operates school transport for nearly four million students a day. The company is seeking to extend it operation in UK
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Companies should strive to develop unique resources in order to gain a lasting competitive advantage. Competitive advantage‚ whatever is source‚ can ultimately be attributed to the ownership of valuable resources that enable the company to perform activities efficiently at comparatively lower costs than its competitors. Superior performance will therefore be based on developing a competitively distinct set of resources and deploying them in a well-conceived strategy. Companies should abandon the
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Economics is the social science that deals with the production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems. All economists agree on one thing‚ the economy is large and it is unpredictable. However‚ throughout the years economists have developed some simple but widely applicable principles that are useful when trying to understand decisions that are made by everyday people to the workings of highly complex markets. There
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Profits Katherine Carpenter Liberty University Econ 213 Gwartney states that profits are; “An excess of sales revenue relative to the opportunity cost of production. The cost component includes the opportunity cost of all resources‚ including those owned by the firm. Therefore‚ profit accrues only when the value of the good produced is greater than the value of the resources used for its production.” An example of a profit would be bakery offers a cheesecake for $20 and the total cost to make
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