Prices & Markets Lecture 1: Demand & Supply © Martin Byford 2012 Definition: Economics /iːkəәˈnɒmɪks‚ ɛk-/ noun The social science that analyses the production‚ distribution and consumption of goods and services given unlimited wants and scarce resources. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (denoting the science of household management): from ta oikonomika‚ the name of a treatise by Aristotle (or his student Theophrastus). Definition: Microeconomics /ˌmʌɪkrəәʊ-/ noun That part of economics concerned
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Assume you will only be allowed to use one (1) method for performing price analysis for the duration of your career. Write a 1-2 page paper in which you determine which method is best in the widest variety of situations and explain your rationale. Price analysis is the investigation and appraisal of a price that is planned for a particular good without considering the expenses incurred for each component that the product consists of and without looking at the revenue that it can generate. There
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Many people dream of fame and popularity‚ they are often jealous of celebrities whose pictures appear on the covers of magazines and newspapers. However they do not realize that famous people who are always in the public eye do not have easy lives. There is a price to pay for fame. First of all‚ I would like to say that when a person becomes famous‚ he or she does not have much freedom. Normally‚ a celebrity is being managed by an agent. Celebrities have to follow what the agent has arranged for
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Analysts expect gas prices to decrease or remain mostly flat not only in 2014‚ but for years to come. Nonetheless‚ drivers in some states will see higher prices at the pump‚ starting January 1. Gas prices may not have seemed all that cheap in 2013. But in fact‚ prices for the year as a whole were less expensive than they have been. According toAAA’s year-end report‚ American drivers paid $3.49 per gallon of regular‚ on average for 2013. That’s the cheapest per-gallon average since 2010; the national
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A price ceiling is a government-imposed limit on the price charged for a product. Governments intend price ceilings to protect consumers from conditions that could make necessary commodities unattainable. However‚ a price ceiling can cause problems if imposed for a long period without controlled rationing. Price ceilings can produce negative results when the correct solution would have been to increase supply. Misuse occurs when a government misdiagnoses a price as too high when the real problem
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assignment Take a brand study its price elasticity of demand and relate it to revenue. Say how the REVENUE of the product increases or decreases because of the ELASTICITY. The elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a good‚ to change in its price‚ price of other goods and change in consumer’s income. Accordingly elasticity of demand is of three types: Price elasticity of demand Income elasticity of demand Cross elasticity of demand Price elasticity of demand: it
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Price FloorsA price floor is the lowest legal price a commodity can be sold at. Price floors are used by the government to prevent prices from being too low. The most common price floor is the minimum wage--the minimum price that can be payed for labor. Price floors are also used often in agriculture to try to protect farmers. For a price floor to be effective‚ it must be set above the equilibrium price. If it’s not above equilibrium‚ then the market won’t sell below equilibrium and the price floor
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Price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) is often used for assessing the company’s stock price. P/E is determined by first calculating the earnings per shares (EPS)‚ which is the post-tax profits divides by the number of shares (Figure 1). Trailing P/E is equal to current market share price divided by trailing earnings per share for the past 12 months‚ whereas forward P/E is equal to current share price divided by expected earnings per shares for the next 12 months or next full-year fiscal period (http://www
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Unit 4: Seminar – Price Controls Unit 4: Seminar – Price Controls Juan Ujueta Kaplan University BU224: Microeconomics Professor: Vilma Vallillee August 1‚ 2012. Price Controls Despite the fact that all markets tend to move into equilibrium‚ there might be occasions when neither buyers‚ nor sellers are satisfied with that equilibrium. Even at an equilibrium point buyers will contest their cases that prices should be go down‚ and sellers contest their
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“This year the weather smiled on us‚ and we made a crop‚” says a wheat farmer near Minnedosa in Manitoba. “But just as we made a crop‚ the economic situation changed.” This quotation brings to mind the old saying‚ “If you are a farmer‚ the weather is always bad.” Discuss the sense in which this saying might be true. (Hint: What happens to price if there is a bumper crop? What is the price elasticity of demand for wheat? Is it inelastic or elastic? What happens to total revenue if there is an increase
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