Microeconomics Introduction : What microeconomics is all about ? Macroeconomics focus on the economy as a whole. In macro‚ you outline relationships between variables ( growth‚ employment rate‚ investment…). Micro : focus on economic agents‚ players‚ and companies. Focus on how consumers and companies are behaving. In micro you look at the economy as being structured‚ divided in several individual markets. It is an important difference in focus : from the overall standpoint to the
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Harrah’s Entertainment Case Questions 1. Discuss briefly the factors that drove Harrah’s customer relationship strategy. 2. Discuss briefly the integration between Harrah’s patron database and the marketing workbench. 3. Discuss briefly whether Harrah’s business and IT strategies were aligned‚ and what factors contributed to or detracted from achieving alignment. 4. Does Harrah’s have a sustainable competitive advantage? Can other companies duplicate what Harrah’s has done? 5. What are
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BEO2264 MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS TUTORIAL QUESTIONS TOPIC 1 Question 1 (a) Discuss how microeconomic theory can help to explain the effects of lowering the minimum wage for teenage employees in the retail industry (b) How is the usefulness of a theory evaluated (c) “Observation without theory and theory without observation are equally useless in explaining the complexities of the real world”. Discuss. Question 2 (a) Distinguish between positive analysis and normative analysis.
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Southwest Airlines and Microeconomics John Divler Rasmussen College Author Note This research is being submitted on June 14‚ 2010‚ for Mr. Bergeen’s Microeconomics course at Rasmen College by John Divler. Southwest Airlines and Microeconomics Southwest Airlines was created in 1967 and is headquartered in Dallas‚ TX. Southwest offers flights to their passengers to get them to their destinations when they want to get there‚ on time‚ at the lowest possible fare. The advantage that Southwest
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selling fruit in Australian market‚ the main producing areas for the banana market which flooded in the Cyclone Yasi‚ has caused the Australian citizens to be concerned about the shortage of bananas. This essay is about discussion of banana market in relationship between supply and demand for bananas after the severe flood from 2010 to 2011 during the summer period. After the flood caused by powerful Cyclone Yasi‚ the fact that the main producing areas were devastated by the flood‚ the production for bananas
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Sample questions for the Microeconomics Midterm Exam Summer 2013 The exam will cover chapters 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5 and 6 There will be 100 minutes allowed to complete the exam. You will have three types of questions: multiple choice‚ true or false and explain‚ and analysis problems. True or False and Explain (Remember that there is one mark for True or False and 4 marks for your explanation) 1. Economics is only interested in fairness not efficiency. 2. If the marginal
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©2005 Pearson Education‚ Inc. & ©Y.E.Riyanto Lecture 1 1 Themes of Microeconomics Microeconomics deals with limits that economic agents (consumers‚ workers‚ firms‚ etc) face: Limited budgets Limited time Limited ability to produce How do we make the most of limits? How do we allocate scarce resources? ©2005 Pearson Education‚ Inc. & ©Y.E.Riyanto Lecture 1 2 Themes of Microeconomics Limited resources (constraints) Choices must be made Unlimited
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Chapter 2 Q5: Explain the term satisfice as it relates to the operations of large corporation. The argument is that today’s large corporations do not aim to maximize profits but instead‚ their aim is to satisfice. The two parts of this idea that we must consider are the following: The position and power of stockholders in today’s corporation as opposed to the position and power of professional management in today’s corporation. Large corporations today are not managed by the owners or the shareholders
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Between microeconomics and macroeconomics. Identify each of the following topics as being part of microeconomics or macroeconomics‚ and state your reason why: 20 Marks (2 Marks each) a. the impact of an increase in consumer income on the purchase of luxury automobiles Answer to A. Microeconomics because it looks at economic problems faced by individual within the overall economy. b. the effect of a change in the price of Coke on the purchase of Pepsi Answer to B. Microeconomics because
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comparing their main features. As the terms suggest‚ macroeconomics deals with the market on a large-scale and its aggregate problems‚ while microeconomics concerns markets on a small-scale and individual aspects of the problems. There are six distinct aspects of the two approaches that are shown as in the following table: Microeconomics Macroeconomics (a) Units of the study Individual consumers‚ producers workers‚ traders‚ etc. Aggregate units such
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