the market power to set the price of a homogeneous product. Because the conditions for perfect competition are strict‚ there are few if any perfectly competitive markets. Still‚ buyers and sellers in some auction-type markets‚ say for commodities or some financial assets‚ may approximate the concept. Perfect competition serves as a benchmark against which to measure real-life and imperfectly competitive markets. Price Discrimination | | Most businesses charge different prices to different groups
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would always raise prices when facing an inelastic demand curve‚ but might or might not raise prices when facing an elastic demand curve? Explain and justify your answers in detail. Price elasticity of demand is defined as percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price. If the demand is elastic‚ consumer response is large relative to the change in price (e.g.‚ new car‚ airline travel). If demand is inelastic‚ consumers aren’t very responsive to price changes (e.g.‚
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tune into what the dull lady is revealing. She announces that an oil spill has erupted in the Gulf of Mexico and the company “BP” is smothered all over the screen. The child only can only understand one concept: BP was the sole cause of this oil spill. To clarify‚ the child did not learn the real causes for this catastrophic disaster. On April 20‚ 2010‚ the oil rig called Deepwater Horizon exploded‚ causing 3.19 million barrels of oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico (Smithsonian). The causes: the
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gasoline prices for the resent several years. The prices for gasoline had been changed rapidly. Mostly increasing‚ while the demand for it did not. For example‚ gasoline prices by Feb. 2008 rose to an average of $3.13 a gallon‚ that is up to 40% from $2.24 in Jan 2007. ( with the price elasticity 1%/40% = 0‚025)‚ and up to 62% from 2003. (with the price elasticity 1%/62% = 0‚016). Yet‚ demand continued to grow at an average 1.15% a year by 2006. Someone could ask why the rise of price did not
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The Development of Oil Sands in Alberta Instructor: Dan Murray Yifan Wang University of Waterloo 15‚ February‚ 2013 Summary A controversy around the development of oil sands in Alberta is developed in this report. Potential factors of its development‚ including economic‚ social‚ and environmental factors‚ are taken into consideration. All the information contained in this report is retrieved from other materials‚ such as peer review‚ journals‚ government reports‚ and online news. All the
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A Price Theory of Multi-Sided Platforms By E. G LEN W EYL∗ Draft: October 6‚ 2009 I develop a general theory of monopoly pricing of networks. Platforms use insulating tariffs to avoid coordination failure‚ implementing any desired allocation. Profit-maximization distorts in the spirit of Spence (1975) by internalizing only network externalities to marginal users. Thus the empirical and prescriptive content of the popular Rochet and Tirole (2006) model of two-sided markets turns on the nature
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Film: Lorenzo’s Oil – Part One Directions: Answer the following questions based on the information provided in the film‚ Lorenzo’s Oil. Characters: Lorenzo Odone – child Michaela Odone– mother Augusto Odone- father 1. Lorenzo begins to experience problems at school and at home. What symptoms of the disease first appeared? ___________________________________________________________________________ ____ ___________________________________________________________________________ ____ 2
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energy sources primarily comprise oil‚ natural gas‚ hydro power and coal‚ although renewable energy (RE) sources such as solar power and biomass are currently being exploited (Poh and Kong‚ 2002) Fuel is any materials that store potential energy in forms that can be practicably released and used as heat energy. All transportation and machinery require fuels to function such as trucks‚ crane‚ etc. The primary energy demand is highly dependent upon the price of fuels used as well as the technology
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Inaccuracies of the Consumer Price Index(CPI) Aman Aggarwal Sept. 28‚ 1996 The Consumer Price Index is a measure of the prices of a fixed market basket of some 300 consumer goods and services purchased by a "typical" urban consumer. The 1982-1984 period serves as the base period so analysts can compare other year’s changes with this base period. The composition of the market basket is fixed in the base period and is assumed not to change from one period to another. The reason for the assumption
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INTRODUCTION Due to the very nature of oil resources‚ the environment is invariably affected. The first way in which the environment is affected by the oil industry is through both the drilling and the transportation processes. The chemicals used in the drilling can be harmful to the environment‚ drilling itself poses a great danger‚ for instance in case of an oil spill (as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill showed)‚ and as the Exxon Valdez disaster so evidently portrayed‚ transportation can be equally
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