Managerial Economics Instructor: Prof.Saina E-Mail: saina.b@sibm.edu.in‚sainabby@gmail.com Telephone No: 9972253101 Objectives: |The course provides a foundation to microeconomics and gives an understanding of the basic principles of microeconomics. It also | |explains analytical tools of economics used to understand business organizations and the dynamics of business. It deals with basic | |dynamics of the market through the analysis of the economics of consumption
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The economic downturn and competition from rival Costa Coffee deepened the UK losses of coffee chain Starbucks to £9.9m in the year to September 2009‚ compared with a pre-tax loss of £1.9m in the previous year. The tough trading climate in Western Europe was predicted last year by Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz‚ who said: "Unemployment‚ the sub-prime mortgage crisis‚ and I think consumer confidence‚ particularly in the UK‚ is very‚ very poor." (Guardian.co.uk‚ 2010) However‚ a spokesperson
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Analysis of The Greed Stricken Monopolies In Jay Stossel’s editorial‚ “Stupid In America” Stossel addresses controversial and serious problems within the American public school system. He states how “school spending has gone through the roof and test scores are flat.” That education has remained the same throughout all these years since we first began measuring it in 1970. Stossel writes that this is “because K-12 education is a government monopoly and monopolies don’t improve.” Stossel explains
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AQA GCSE Science: P1a 1.1 How can science help us see in the dark? AQA Specification Link • Thermal (infra-red) radiation is the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves. • All bodies emit and absorb thermal radiation. • The hotter a body is the more energy it radiates. Learning Objectives Students should learn: • The nature of thermal radiation. • That the amount of thermal radiation emitted increases with the temperature of the object. Teaching / Learning activities (including How
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guidelines for the conduct of regulation‚ namely to allow freedom of entry and exit and to ensure equal access of competitors. An oligopolistic market is a particular market that is controlled by a small number of firms. An oligopoly is much like a monopoly‚ in which only one company exerts control over most of a market‚ however in an oligopoly‚ there are at least two firms controlling the market. A contestable market is one where incumbent firms face real and potential competition. A market with only
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Mankiw’s 10 Principles of Economics: How People Make Decisions 1. People face tradeoffs: To get one thing‚ you have to give up something else. You may have heard economists say “there is no such thing as a free lunch”. What they mean by this is that‚ for example‚ you might get a free bowl of soup at the student co-op‚ but the soup is not free because you have to give up 35-minutes waiting in line to be served. 2. The cost of something is what you give up to get it: Making a decision requires
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Why is it important for the government to regulate natural monopolies? A natural monopoly arises where the largest supplier in an industry‚ often the first supplier in a market‚ has an overwhelming cost advantage over other actual and potential competitors. This tends to be the case in industries where capital costs predominate‚ creating economies of scale that are large in relation to the size of the market‚ and hence high barriers to entry; examples include public utilities such as water services
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fiction and non-fiction from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. They write sixteen in-class essays‚ three out-of-class analysis papers‚ and three out-of-class persuasive arguments with attribution. Most of the rough drafts on the out-of-class persuasive papers are begun in class‚ and the students go through at least two rewrites and peer editing before taking the essays home and typing the final copies. Using a class set of Glencoe’s eleventh grade edition of Grammar and Language
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Profit Maximiser MR = MC An industry can be defined from two criteria: - similarity of products - similarity of economic activities A Sport industry can be defined as a cluster of firms that: - produce sport activities - provide products and services - trade and sell products Meeks ‘3-Sector’ Model of the sport industry: Sector #1: Sports Entertainment Sector #2: Sports Products Sector #3: Sports Support Organisations Li‚ Hofacre and Mahoneys ‘2-Sector’ Model of the sport industry:
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Playing the stock market is like gambling. Such speculative investing has no social value‚ other than the pleasure people get from this form of gambling. On the surface‚ this seems true. Folks are just buying and selling and hoping the difference will end up in their checkbook. They are not improving the lives of others‚ encouraging certain business practices‚ buying and using goods‚ or hiring and training workers. In fact‚ the businesses that they buy and sell may never matter to them and never
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