the Mean-Variance World would complete the following process to construct her or his optimal portfolio: 1) The investor would first estimate the various inputs needed to build the Old Efficient Frontier. The inputs that the investor needs to estimate are the expected returns and the variances of all the risky assets‚ and all of the covariance terms across all of the risky assets. 2) Using these estimates‚ the investor would then construct the Old Efficient Frontier. This requires that the investor
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Why do volumes‚ prices‚ and margins vary over the product life cycle? Can you provide an example? The same factors that are the key to reaching maximum market potential Awareness‚ Availability‚ Ability to Use‚ Benefit Deficiency‚ and Affordability. Take the release of both Apples’ iPod and iPhone‚ both of these products had great pre-release awareness‚ during the pre-release a lot of people learned from reading press releases and other media how to use them. When they were finally released
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for $1.99 a pound‚ but when you get home‚ you discover they are mushy. Since you paid top dollar for these apples‚ you decide you have to eat them. 2. Briefly explain why the following statements are either TRUE or FALSE: a. Even though school dormitory rooms are rationed by lottery‚ these rooms are still affected by economic forces. b. Because the U.S. postal service is a monopoly and Congress sets postal prices through legislation‚ market forces do not determine
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CHAPTER 3 3. The Olde Yogurt Factory has reduced the price of its popular Mmmm Sundae from $2.25 to $1.75. As a result‚ the firm’s daily sales of these sundaes have increased from 1‚500/day to 1‚800/day. Compute the arc price elasticity of demand over this price and consumption quantity range. Ey = ((1800 – 1500) / ((1800 + 1500) / 2)) ((1.75 – 2.25) / ((1.75 + 2.25) / 2)) Ey = 300 ($4.00) -$0.50 (300) Ey = -8% 4. The subway fare in your town has just been increased from
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in any bankruptcy‚ receivership or similar proceedings. It was recognized as Reader’s Digest Asia’s Most Trusted Brands in 2008. Also in the same year‚ it launched a new format called “Puregold Jr. Supermarket.” By mid-2009‚ it gained market leadership being the second largest hypermarket and supermarket retailer in the Philippines in terms of net sales. By 2010‚ it opened 62 stores‚ and launched another format called‚ “Puregold Extra.” And by the end of 2011‚ they saw the highest number of store openings
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Activities/Products Impero Escana Driftwood Set up costs: 12‚200 Cost driver: number of set ups. Total number of set ups: 5 (12‚200/5) x 2 = 4‚880 (12‚200/5) x 2 = 4‚880 (12‚200/5) x 1 = 2‚440 Purchasing and checking wood edging costs: 8‚000 Cost driver: wood edging per cabinet Total number of meter per wood edging: 8 meters (8‚000/8) x 4 = 4‚000 (8‚000/8) x 4 = 4‚000 (8‚000/8) x 0 = 0 Purchase of wood costs: 5‚100 Cost driver: wood (meters) per
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There are some reasons that may affect the decrease of price elasticity of supply among the three districts. Theoretically‚ the land restriction and increase in the transaction cost will cause a negative effect on the elasticity through different channels. The insufficient land resources in Hong Kong will physically limit the housing supply‚ but the land sale system makes it even worse. The land sale system in Hong Kong restricted the supply of land by abandoning regular selling after 1998. There
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Price gouging is the practice of rising the price of goods‚ services‚ or commodities‚ to unreasonable or unfair level. This usually occurs when a state or country is in a state of emergency. Many citizens when talking about price they automatically think it is bad and are against it‚ which is not the case in my opinion. In many states it is illegal to price gouge and is considered unfair by many. My belief is that price gouging should be legal for many reasons. In the next paragraphs I will explain
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Rising Prescription Drug Prices: Warranted or Unjustified? U. S. citizens pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world. This is an injustice that must be corrected. The "U.S. forbids the import of prescription drugs by anyone other than the original U.S. manufacturer‚ and even then only when the drugs meet all the approval requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)" (Barlett & Steele‚ 2004). Prescription drug prices are outrageously high in the United States because of
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Demand‚ and Price Elasticity Supply and demand are common terms within economics. This also means that each term is dependent on each other. For example if a price goes up‚ the demand comes down and if the demand goes up the price comes down. Equilibrium occurs when both the demand and supply are equal or are in balance with each other. Price elasticity is the “measure of how much one variable responds to change in another economic variable” (Hubbard & O’Brien‚ 2010‚ p. 168). In this case the
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