In this case‚ Qantas is the monopolist in the markets thus it role of ‘price maker’ can be explained as Qantas would adjust the price by varying the quantity sells. Under this background‚ Qantas may use price discrimination to achieve high profit. As it knows the exact willingness to pay for each customer‚ Qantas would charge different customers accurately based on their different price elasticity of demand which is perfect price discrimination strategy. As a result‚ Qantas wins the total producer
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Set-I Q1. Price elasticity of demand depends on various factors. Explain each factor with the help of an example. Answer. Elasticity of Demand: Earlier we have discussed the law of demand and its determinants. It tells us only the direction of change in price and quantity demanded. But it does not specify how much more is purchased when price falls or how much less is bought when price rises. In order to understand the quantitative changes or rate of changes in price and demand‚ we have to
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Problem Based Learning (PBL) project for MS1381 – Part 1 ________________________________________________________________________ Instructions to Students (a) Please form groups of 2 or 3. (b) There are 2 parts to this project. This is part 1. Part 2 will be released later. (b) The PBL project constitutes 10% of your overall assessment. (c) Analyze and work out the whole problem together as a group. (d) Each group must submit 1 written group report and 1 progress report for part 1 of this project
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MBA Managerial Economics Review Questions for the Final Exam (Illustrative Answers) PRICE IS LOWER IN A MORE ELASCTIC MARKET!!!!!!!!!! 0.1-1 Introduction:Managerial Decision-Making and Market Processes (a) How does operational effectiveness differ from organizational strategy? Operational effectiveness is achieving excellence in individual activities while organizational strategy is about combining these activities to fit and reinforce one another and create competitive advantage and
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decrease in the cost of labor for producing bicycles. (4 pts.) What happens to bicycle supply? (6 pts.) What happens to bicycle demand? Student Answer: When there is an increase in the price of labor for making bicycles the supply would decrease because it would cost more to make the bikes and the supply curve would shift to the left. There would be no change in the demand for the bicycles. Instructor Explanation: Since a change in costs to produce the product is a supply factor‚ a decrease
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profit margin or maintaining the U.S. dollar price? To answer this question‚ the price elasticity of demand must be known for the Porsche Carrera. If the car is relatively inelastic‚ the company can count on high exchange rate pass-through. Meaning‚ that the Porsche may keep the profit margin by increasing the price of the car as the U.S. dollar weakens in relationship to the Euro. If the car has elastic demand‚ meaning that price elasticity is less than 1‚ the car maker will have
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sellers‚ an easy entry and exit from the market‚ homogenous products‚ and price takers. Having no control over the product’s price‚ a price taker is a buyer or seller that possess minimum market power and must “take” or accept the ongoing price. Based on the price determined in the market‚ a perfect competition sets a production level. Market supply and demand conditions as well as the competition within the industry set the price of the goods sold. This causes a perfectly competitive firm to face a
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Q2: Problem 3 (Chapter 1 Appendix) on textbook pp. 34 (10%) Victor Fuchs (1996) lists the following questions in an article in The Wall Street Journal. Identify whether the following questions involve positive or normative analysis. All the questions deal with a Republican plan to reform Medicare‚ the public health insurance program for the elderly. A. How many Medicare beneficiaries will switch to managed care? B. How much should the younger generation be taxed to pay for the elderly? C. Should
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service and due to unforeseen circumstances the demand increases? What happens if the price increases? How does this change affect your goods and or services? The Price of Elasticity of Demand can help determine each of these situations and calculate whether the price should be raised or dropped due to cost and demand of a product. Explanation is key; we will use these examples and explain how Price of Elasticity of Demand is used: If the demand for corn increases due to its use as an alternative
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of the model. According to this theory‚ modern firms are managed by both the manager and the shareholders. A manager aims to maximize the rate of growth of the firm and the shareholders will try to maximize the dividend and the increase the share price. Sales Maximization Model: This is alternative model for profit maximization model. The model has been propounded by W.J. Baumol who was an
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