4.4ai. The price elasticity of demand is given to calculate the new price. The fruit stall has 100 peaches initially but 10 peaches are rotten. It means the number of remaining peaches is 90 units. Therefore‚ the question provides the factors such as initial quantity‚ new quantity‚ initial price which are 100‚ 90‚ 1 respectively. Let the new price be x. Therefore‚ we will choose $1.2 per unit as the new price to sell the remaining peaches. 4.4aii. Case 1: If I do not discover the
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Price discrimination in practice First and third degree discrimination in the train tariffs‚ etc. Price discrimination basically involves charging a different price to different groups of people for the same good. It needs some conditions. First of all‚ the firm must operate in an imperfect competition‚ it must be a price maker with a negative sloping demand curve. Second‚ the firm must be able to separate markets and prevent black market. Third‚ there would exist different consumer groups who
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12.1 Suppose your elasticity of demand for your parking lot spaces is -2‚ and price is $8 per day. If your MC is zero‚ and your capacity is 80% full at 9 A.M. over the last month‚ are you optimizing? We are clearly not optimizing because we are only optimized when marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Because our costs are sunk we should lower our prices so that we can fill to capacity. 14.4 A manufacturer of microwaves has discovered that male shoppers have little value for microwaves and
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Oil Price Analysis: The Impact Of Supply & Demand By Greg McFarlane It’s easy to curse and moan when gas seems expensive. The oil companies are abusing the helpless customers who are effectively indentured to them‚ and can name their own prices thanks to a system of collusion and profiteering. Something‚ probably involving legislation‚ ought to be done. Except the truth lies elsewhere. In the long run‚ oil is about as purely elastic a commodity as there is‚ every movement on the production and consumption
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Intermediate Price Theory Problem Set 1 -- Supply and Demand 1. Assume that the United States demand curve for corn is QD = 80 - 2P where P is the price of corn (in dollars per bushels) and QD is the quantity of demanded of corn ( in billions of bushels) and that QS = 20 + 4P is the supply curve for corn where QS is the quantity of corn supplied (in billions of bushels). a. What are the equilibrium price and quantity? At equilibrium‚
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OWOYOMI OLUWATOSIN ADEDAPO 1/16/2013 | ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS | AN ESSAY OF THE EVALUATION OF FACTOR PRICE EQUALIZATION THEORY. | MAT NO: SSC0905121 | INTRODUCTION Factor price equalization is an economic theory‚ by Paul A. Samuelson (1948)‚ which states that the prices of identical factors of production‚ such as the wage rate‚ or the return to capital‚ will be equalized across countries as a result of international trade in commodities. The theorem assumes that there are two goods
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GASOLINE According to the law of demand‚ when the price of a good and the quantity demanded have an inverse relationship. When the price of a good increases‚ the quantity demanded decreases. There are various factors affecting the demand for gasoline. These include: 1. The availability and prices of substitutes and complements: A good is referred to as a substitute for another good‚ when it can be used as a replacement for the good. When the price of one good goes up‚ the demand for the substitute
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THE ETHICS OF PRICE GOUGING Matt Zwolinski Abstract: Price gouging occurs when‚ in the wake of an emergency‚ sellers of a certain necessary goods sharply raise their prices beyond the level needed to cover increased costs. Most people think that price gouging is immoral‚ and most states have laws rendering the practice a civil or criminal offense. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the philosophic issues surrounding price gouging‚ and to argue that the common moral condemnation
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L. Cox The Price Is Unfair! A Conceptual Framework of Price Fairness Perceptions Recent news coverage on pricing portrays the importance of price fairness. This article conceptually integrates the theoretical foundations of fairness perceptions and summarizes empirical findings on price fairness. The authors identify research issues and gaps in existing knowledge on buyers’ perceptions of price fairness. The article concludes with guidelines for managerial practice. he issue of price fairness has
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The importance of price in the modern economic system not be overemphasized. However‚ to set the right price for any commodity or service‚ some parameters or determinants come to play. Among the determinants of factoring price are:- • Tender • Sales by Auction • Haggling etc‚ and these are discussed below. 1. Interaction of the forces of Demand and Supply:- In a perfectly competitive market or what is sometimes referred to as a free market economy‚ prices are determined by
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