The ridiculous land price in HK Hong Kong is an amazing place. Due to its unique history and location‚ Hong Kong became an international city. Most of the rich companies in Hong Kong rely on the estate’s business. The fact is that Hong Kong is just a small place‚ land supply is extremely limited. But the population never stops growing. In this situation‚ businessmen keep rising the land price or the rent. As government needs more income to enrich the reserve and keeps providing land piece to the
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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 are other problems such as the lack of
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gasoline prices for the resent several years. The prices for gasoline had been changed rapidly. Mostly increasing‚ while the demand for it did not. For example‚ gasoline prices by Feb. 2008 rose to an average of $3.13 a gallon‚ that is up to 40% from $2.24 in Jan 2007. ( with the price elasticity 1%/40% = 0‚025)‚ and up to 62% from 2003. (with the price elasticity 1%/62% = 0‚016). Yet‚ demand continued to grow at an average 1.15% a year by 2006. Someone could ask why the rise of price did not
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enjoyment. But on a darker note it is a depressant and can lead to cancer and death if not drank sensibly. So the government has come up with a plan of minimum alcohol pricing. But will this really work? In the U.K studies show that placing a minimum price of 50 pence per unit would save up to 3000 lives per year and would result in 41000 fewer cases of chronic illnesses. People’s health comes before anything shouldn’t it? The government has realised the effect this has on people and are attempting to
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Stephany Coffman United States: 1919-1945 Historical Problems Paper #1 Woodrow Wilson has been described as “cold‚ aloof and often arrogant‚ but he was not all intellect.” By the time Wilson was elected governor of New Jersey he had never held a political office‚ and had never taken more than a theorist’s interest in politics. Wilson’s personal view on how the Presidential office should be run is to lead a country rather than to be lead. He believed that a president should act like a prime
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6.5 Step 1: Pick a friend or family member to be the character of your word problem. This friend or family member may do one of the following: * Drive a boat * Drive a jet ski Step 2: Select a current speed of the water in mph. Step 3: Select the number of hours (be reasonable please) that your friend or family member drove the boat or jets ski against the current speed you chose in step 2. Step 4: Select the number of hours that your friend or family member made the same trip
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Economic: Money and prices played an important part in this time era. Even thou at this time period people were having challenges it has shaped who America is today. In 1836 “Jackson’s decision to remove funds from the bank and deposit them in state banks damaged the economy” (Keene 242). As a result of the damaging economy prices went up. “To slow down the overheated economy‚ Jackson adopted a hard money policy‚ The Specie Circular‚ which required that land purchased from the government be paid
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High Price of Higher Education In America’s society today‚ students are expected to follow the path of day care‚ grade school‚ middle school‚ high school and hopefully college. Growing up in America today‚ the importance of education is stressed starting at the earliest stages of development. In a world with a competitive job market and with citizens who want to make the most money that they can‚ a college education is key in success. For some students‚ financing college is not a problem. Money
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business operations‚ from the design of a product to the setting of its price. Product-design issues and pricing considerations are interrelated‚ so they must be examined simultaneously. For example‚ for a higher quality product; you need higher quality materials which will affect a higher cost and needs more time and this will lead to a higher pricing on a product. Also‚ a manager must not price its product out of the market price range. Actions of Competitors: companies must keep an eye on its competitors
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Apple Price Cut Case 1. To what extent the iPhone pricing strategy is similar to the iPod pricing strategy? How do you explain that the iPod price cut did not lead to such a level of customers’ protest? Answer: Both iPhone and iPod have experienced a large amount of price cut in their product lifecycle. In this document‚ we can find that iPod was launched in October 2001. Tough relatively high priced for an MP3 player‚ it was hugely demanded and remains popular till date though there was
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