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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Cooperative A cooperative (also co-operative; often referred to as a co-op) is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. Cooperatives are defined by the International Co-operative Alliance’s Statement on the Co-operative Identity as autonomous associations of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic‚ social‚ and cultural needs and aspirations through jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprises. A cooperative may also
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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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What Will Ender Do? Ender faces a serious dilemma in the book‚ Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. He is staying at the new bugger planet and is searching the planet; during his search he encounters a familiar structure‚ only to realize that it is the structure from his fantasy game. Upon further examination‚ he finds a cocoon and realizes it can bring back the buggers. Ender must decide whether he wants to help bring back the bugger race‚ or whether he wants to end their existence forever‚ thus
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AC 525‚ 6:30-7:30‚ MWF Cooperatives According to Article 3‚ Chapter 1 of Republic Act (R.A.) 9520‚ also known as the Philippine Cooperative Code of 2008 (hereafter referred to as the Code)‚ a cooperative is “an autonomous and duly registered association of persons‚ with a common bond of interest‚ who have voluntarily joined together to achieve their social‚ economic‚ and cultural needs and aspirations by making equitable contributions to the capital required‚ patronizing their products and
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motivators which can encourage unethical decisions that can mar a firm’s reputation. 3) Define the Nash equilibrium. Why is this concept applicable to many oligopoly industries? Nash equilibrium is a set of mixed strategies for limited and non-cooperative match between two or more firms in which no firm can improve its payoff by switching strategy. Nash equilibrium maintains focus on rivalries with mutual gain. Oligopolistic firms chooses prices and inputs to maximize profits‚ however‚ firms
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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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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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Managerial Economics and Business Strategy 3551 #6 Answers – Summer 2012 1. What type of evidence did Dupont introduce in its plastic wrap trial that proved decisive in its acquittal? __ It brought in cross elasticities to show that there were many substitutes for plastic wrap. It then argued that the market had to be defined to include all substitutes. This broadened the definition of the market to the point where DuPont’s market share was small.___ 2. What had Alcoa done
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WSGPR 7/7/03 4:33 PM Page i Managerial Economics: Theory and Practice WSGPR 7/7/03 4:33 PM Page ii WSGPR 7/7/03 4:33 PM Page iii Managerial Economics: Theory and Practice Edited by Thomas J. Webster Department of Finance & Economics Lubin School of Business Pace University Study Guide Amsterdam Boston Heidelberg London New York Oxford San Diego San Francisco Singapore Sydney Tokyo Paris WSGPR 7/7/03 4:33 PM Page iv WSGPR 7/7/03 4:33 PM Page v Table of Contents
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