ASB-2301 ---- EXERCISES – HANDOUT 1 1. Demand and supply (A) a) Suppose that there is an announcement that chocolate causes cancer. What would happen to equilibrium price and quantity in the market for Godiva chocolate? b) Suppose that the price of Hershey’s chocolate increases. What would happen to equilibrium price and quantity in the market for Godiva chocolate? c) Suppose that the price of sugar increases. What would happen to equilibrium price and quantity in the market for Godiva chocolate
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Market definition plays a key role in competition analysis and has often proved controversial. However‚ it is merely a means to an end‚ the real issue being to establish whether or not firms have significant market power‚ i.e. the power to increase prices. This objective is rather different to the traditional neo-classical economic view of a market. The introduction of the SSNIP test in the US Department of Justice 1982 Merger Guidelines resulted in the development of new methods for defining markets
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Minghao Feng ECO 102 B Assignment #6 03/25/2014 SECTION ONE: 1 point Here you will find questions related to chapter 27. a Assume that employers and workers agree that real wages should rise by 2% next year. If inflation is expected to be 2% next year‚ what will workers ask for in regard to wages next year? From the question we know that employers and workers want to raise real wages by 2%. But inflation will be 2% in next year. Actually‚ the employers and workers do not changer
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along with other harmful substances. Cigarette is a great product to be selling for the firm. As the customers(smokers) are addicted to nicotine ‚ these firms can rely on them for continuous demand and they can easily increase supply. Therefore‚ the firms can easily monopoly the market and fix their own price. One of the reasons for a firm to enter the market of producing cigarettes would be the profit. These giant tobacco companies makes billion yearly profit after tax. However‚ these firm has to
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Assignment Refer to the sets of the aggregate demand‚ short-run aggregate supply‚ and long-run aggregate supply curves. Use the graphs to explain the process and steps by which each of the following economic scenarios will shift the economy from one long-run macroeconomic equilibrium to another equilibrium. Under each scenario‚ elaborate the short-run and long-run effects of the shifts in the aggregate demand and aggregate supply curves on the aggregate price level and aggregate output (real GDP). Suppose
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CHAPTER 2 THE BASICS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND 1. Consider a competitive market for which the quantities demanded and supplied (per year) at various prices are given as follows: Price ($ ) Demand Supply (millions) (millions) 60 22 14 80
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to an increase of 10% in income. Then the income elasticity of demand would be‚ Ey= (20%)/(10%)=2 The amount which the quantity demanded for a good change in response to a change in income depends on the type of goods. We can distinguish the types of goods as following‚ Normal goods - Ey > 0 – positive YED Luxury goods - Ey > 1 Necessities - 0 < Ey < 1 Inferior products - Ey < 0 – negative YED Let’s see how the income elasticity of demand deviates for normal goods and inferior products‚ Normal
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of a product is the price elasticities and how they vary over the product’s life cycle. The PLC can be divided into several stages characterized by the revenue generated by the product. As the product progresses in its life cycle‚ changes in pricing are usually required in each phase‚ in order to adjust to the evolving challenges and opportunities. - During the introduction stage‚ the primary goal is to establish a market and build a primary demand for the product set. Prices are usually high‚ assuming
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effects on he demand and/or supply‚ equilibrium price‚ and equilibrium quantity of chocolate ice cream. * A sever drought in the Midwest causes dairy farmers to reduce the number of milk- producing cows in their herds by a third. These dairy farmers supply cream that is used to manufacture chocolate ice cream? By reducing the number of milk-producing cows in famer’s herds‚ supply will fall. A shortage of cream now exists and the market is no longer in equilibrium. The price of chocolate ice
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Coffee Supply and Demand Besides the high demand and cost for gasoline these days‚ coffee is considered the second most traded commodity on worldwide markets next to oil. "Coffee is grown in more than 50 countries in a band around the equator and provides a living for more than 20 million farmers. Altogether‚ up to 100 million people worldwide are involved in the growing‚ processing‚ trading and retailing of the product" (Spilling the Beans ‚ ). In 2001‚ coffee farmers and plantations produced
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