PRICE WARS: THE COST OF A COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOUR Introduction Price wars have racked industry after industry in recent years: from personal computers to mobile phones‚ from fast-food restaurants to airlines‚ from grocery retailing to computer software‚ from beers to frozen diet dinners‚ from automobile tires to disposable diapers‚ from detergents to underwear. All too often‚ there are no winners and few healthy survivors. Price wars indeed represent one of the extreme forms of competitive interplay
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Prices and Markets Questions for Demonstration Lectures QUESTIONS IN RED MUST BE ATTEMPTED BY STUDENTS FIRST. STUDENTS HAVE FIVE (5) MINUTES TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ON THEIR OWN AND FIFTEEN (15) MINUTES TO DISCUSS THEIR ANSWERS IN A GROUP OF 2-4 INDIVIDUALS. Your tutors will be available throughout this period to help you answer any questions. The questions marked with **** will not de discussed in the tutorial and must be attempted by students on their own. If you have any questions please
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HKCEE ECONOMICS | 3.1 Price ceiling | P.1 1. 1992/II/27 The above diagram shows the price and quantity of Good X. The price increases from Pc to Pe after the price ceiling is cancelled. As a result‚ the total expenditure on Good X will A. increase C. remain unchanged B. decrease D. either increase or decrease‚ depending on its price elasticity of demand 2. 1994/II/10 The above diagram shows the supply of and the demand for the tickets of a concert. If the tickets are sold at P2 in stead of
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oil prices are at $126 to a barrel‚ more than double the April 2007 price of $63 a barrel. The future doesn’t look too bright with prophets of doom predicting still higher prices. In India‚ we are yet to feel the real impact of the flaring international oil prices even though over 70 per cent of the country’s requirements are met through imported oil. The oil prices in India and many Asian countries are subsidized by government and controlled through price ceiling rules. High oil prices are here
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listening to it with a realistic synthetic voice (UoP‚ 2011). Carlos business is focused on selling these digital books online and is convinced on the potential success of his business. However‚ he is facing a dilemma concerning how to appropriately price his product. This paper briefly covers certain economic principles and evaluates Carlos ’ dilemma and compares it to this principles. SCARCE RESOURCES The concept or reality of scarce resources is fundamental to economics. Resources include land
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and cross-price elasticities of demand essential to competitor identification and market definition? (2 points possible) The own-price elasticity of demand determines whether a product faces close substitutes‚ but it does not identify what substitutes are available. Economists can identify substitutes by measuring the cross-price elasticity of demand between two products. The higher is the cross-price elasticity‚ the more readily consumers substitute between two goods when the price of one good
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PRICE ELASCITIY OF DEMAND: There are several uses of Price Elasticity of Demand that is why firms gather information about the Price Elasticity of Demand of its products. A firm will know much more about its internal operations and product costs than it will about its external environment. Therefore‚ gathering data on how consumers respond to changes in price can help reduce risk and uncertainly. More specifically‚ knowledge of Price Elasticity of Demand can help the firm forecast its sales and
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The market supply and demand curve above shows the milk price support problem. In order to solve the milk surpluses in the market‚ the government should take the steps to increase the market demand to the milk products by exploring overseas markets. For instance‚ the government should export the milk surpluses abroad. This would cut the cost of storage for milk products and encourages the local dairy farmers continue in dairy business. b. The small dairy farmers would prefer the proposal 4
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different b) will want to trade if they are on the contract curve c) will not want to trade if their consumption bundles are not Pareto-efficient d) will only want to trade if they are not at their endowment e) may want to trade if the price ratio is not equal to one answer a If MRSA is not equal to MRSB‚ the two consumers will be able to arrange a mutually beneficial trade. Mutually beneficial trade will not occur only when the allocation of resources among A and B is already efficient
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STICKY PRICES AND THEIR MACROECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES To understand the economic fluctuations‚ many economists have focused attention on economic coordination problems. Normally‚ the price system efficiently coordinates what goes on in an economy even in a complex economy. The price system provides signals to firms as to who buys what‚ how much to produce‚ what resources to use‚ and from whom to buy. For example‚ if consumers decide to buy fresh fruit rather than chocolate‚ the price of fresh fruit
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