company focuses on technological and competitor as external factors that influencing price setting on matcha collagen biscuits. 4.2.1 Competitor Competition factors can look into three areas which are monopoly competition‚ perfect competition and oligopoly competition. Monopolistic competition is a situation where a single company or group controls the entire output of the market for a given type of product or service with any buyers. Besides‚ a monopoly is protected from competition by high barriers
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there is just one firm in the industry‚ and hence no competition from within the industry. In the middle come monopolistic competition‚ which involves quite a lot of firms competing and where there is freedom for new firms to enter the industry‚ and oligopoly‚ which involves only a few firms and where entry of new firms is restricted. To distinguish more precisely between these four categories‚ the following must be considered: • How freely can firms enter the industry? Is entry free or restricted
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Four-Firm Concentration Ratio Definition of the Four- Firm Concentration Ratio This is one of the most common concentration ratios. The four-firm concentration ratio is commonly used to indicate the degree to which an industry is oligopolistic and the extent of market control held by the four largest firms in the industry. How would you describe an industry with 20 firms and the CR is 20% and its implications?
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Decision making is amongst the main functions of managers within the business world today; even more particularly during these times of economic crises. Decisions such as pricing strategies targeted to particular market models of monopoly‚ oligopoly‚ monopolistic competition‚ and perfect competition‚ may help maximize revenues and profits. Also making the right choice when investing in technology‚ research and development‚ and marketing tactics can deeply impact a business’ profits and ultimately
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03.11 Oligopoly FRQ 1 3/6 points earned a. 2 points; The student stated that the North will be better for Blue Mart‚ and he stated that Blue Mart earns $4‚000 locating North compared to the $1‚000 it earns South. b. 0 points; The student incorrectly claimed that moving South was a dominant market strategy‚ and he did not explain how Red Shop’s best strategy depends on Blue Mart’s move. c. 0 points; incorrectly stated that Red Shop would locate North and Blue Mart would locate South
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buying decisions with varied pricing structures and supply levels due to the nature of the market where such goods and services are being sold. There are generally four market structures‚ namely; perfect competition‚ monopolistic competition‚ oligopoly and monopoly. The latter three structures are also considered as imperfect competition. The type of market structure can be described by the number of sellers or firms‚ the nature of product‚ entry and exit barriers‚ and degree of control over
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Economic condition of Pakistan For the past few years Pakistan has been following the technique of assessment of domestic oil value against the international oil value on a fortnight basis. About 85% of the oil required for domestic uses in Pakistan is imported. Back in the year 2004 various subsidies were given by the government on the oil price as an attempt to protect the citizens from the prospective record fuel costs. It was also an attempt to curb the rate of inflation prevalent in the country
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Alternative Investments: Alternative Energy and Oil: Literature review Kevin Meyer‚ Kevin@meyermail.ch Submitted 12/04/2010 Executive Summary Research Purpose In order to build a financial product on a sound theoretical basis‚ I analysed the literature available on or related to the topic: “Alternative energy and Oil”. The aim is to verify the hypothesis of correlation between the variations of the price of oil and alternative energy companies‟ stock valuation. Research Design I searched
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Why the Oil price crisis in India? Introduction In the last week‚ our finance minister has announced that there may be no subsidy for the diesel prices for cars. It is one of the news among many news which is coming on its way about the fuel prices in India. Especially in India‚ fixing the fuel prices is one of the daunting task for the government. Indian govt. gives explanation to the common man for the reason of price hikes which can be understand only by the experts. There are numerous things
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Fifteen years have passed since the enactment of Republic Act 8479‚ otherwise known as “Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998”‚ but down to this day‚ Oil Deregulation Law remains to be a subject of disputes. The heightening tension is not only based on whether or not we should regulate or deregulate oil industry but is also founded on an important economic question: Should the government intervene in setting oil prices or should they leave the market outcome to market players – producers
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