Managerial Economics Home Work-I Solutions 1. The Potomac Range Corporation manufactures a line of microwave ovens costing $500 each. Its sales have averaged about 6‚000 units per month during the past year. In August‚ Potomac’s closest competitor‚ Spring City Stove Works‚ cut its price for a closely competitive model from $600 to $450. Potomac noticed that its sales volume declined to 4‚500 units per month after Spring City announced its price cut. a. What is the arc cross elasticity of demand between
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MBA 640 (Summer IS 2010) MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS EXAM #1 STUDENT NAME: Exam is open book and open material. 1. Explain the interaction of Managerial Economics with other business disciplines‚ giving specific examples. Managerial economics has been defined by conventional theorists as a science that "is all about how people make choices" After you’ve defined managerial economics and it’s relationship to its economic theory. Managerial economics will interact with each of these business’s
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1 FIRST SEMESTER Managerial Economics Subject Code:1001 Contact Hours: 60 Work Load: 4hrs/week Credit Points: 04 Semester End Exam Marks: 80 Internal Marks: 20 OBJECTIVES: 1. To familiarize students with Micro Economic Concepts used in Decision Making. 2. To develop application and analytical skills by using these concepts to make managers effective in economic decision making. Module: 1 (10 Hours) Introduction to Economics - Introduction to Managerial Economics- concept‚ Nature‚ Scope
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Barriers to entry: In theories of competition in economics‚ barriers to entry are the obstacles and hindrances that make it difficult for a company to enter a given market or industry. The most common barriers to entry include government regulation and economies of scale‚ but nowadays it is increasing for entry barriers to be viewed as a cost. Stigler defined barriers to entry as “A cost of producing which must be borne by a firm which seeks to enter an industry but is not borne by firms already
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Managerial Economics HW #4 (Chapter 5) 1.A firm can manufacture a product according to the production function Q F(K‚ L) K3/4L1/4 a. Calculate the average product of labor‚ APL‚ when the level of capital is fixed at 16 units and the firm uses 16 units of labor. How does the average product of labor change when the firm uses 81 units of labor? Saat (Capital) K = 16 (Labour) L = 16 Q = (16)0‚75(16)0‚25 Q = (8)(2) = 16 APL =Q/L =16/16=1. Saat K= 16 Q= 81 Q = (16)0‚75(81)0‚25 Q = (8)(3)
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Chief Characteristics Of Managerial Economics It would be useful to point out certain chief characteristics of Managerial Economics‚ inasmuch it’s they throw further light on the nature of the subject matter and help in a clearer understanding thereof. 1. Managerial Economics micro-economic in character. 2. Managerial Economics largely uses that body of economic concepts and principles‚ which is known as ‘Theory of the firm’ or ‘Economics of the firm’. In addition‚ it also seeks to apply
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MEANING SCOPE AND METHODS OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS INTRODUCTION Emergence of managerial economics as a separate course of management studies can be attributed to at least three factors.: (a) growing complexity of business decision making process due to changing market conditions and business environment (b) consequent upon‚ the increasing use of economic logic ‚ concepts theories and tools o economic analysis in the process of business decision making (c) Rapid increase in demand for professionally
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Managerial Economics & Business Strategy Chapter 4 The Theory of Individual Behavior McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2010 by the McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Overview I. Consumer Behavior – Indifference Curve Analysis. – Consumer Preference Ordering. II. Constraints – The Budget Constraint. – Changes in Income. – Changes in Prices. III. Consumer Equilibrium IV. Indifference Curve Analysis & Demand Curves – Individual Demand. – Market Demand. 4-2 Consumer
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MB0042 – Managerial Economics Semester - I Assignment 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
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MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS ECO 556 BM221 4c “DEMAND FOR VE MICROWAVE OVEN” TABLE OF CONTACT 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2.0 METHODOLOGY 3.0 DATA DEMAND FOR VE MICROWAVE OVEN 4.0 EQUATION 5.0 FINDINGS AND INTERPRETATION 5.1 Evaluation of Statically Significant At 95% Or Significant Level for Each Independent Variable. 5.2 Interpretation Coefficient of Determination 5.3 Interpretation of F-Test 5.4 Interpretation of Standard Error of Estimate 5.5 Derivation of Demand Curve 5.6 Elasticity of Demand
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