MICROECONOMICS CHAPTER 1 The Market Economy What is to be done? —Lenin When future historians look back on the close of the 20th century‚ one of the most sweeping changes they will note is the collapse of centrally planned economies in Eastern Europe. It is not far off to say that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was won not by the armies of the United States and its allies‚ but by the productive power of Western market economies. Mikhail Gorbachev‚ then leader of the Soviet
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retail bank overcomes the limitations of thirty-year-old "legacy" microeconomics systems to launch a high-tech operation that offers its customers a complete range of banking services over the telephone. Another bank is able to roll out‚ within three months of an acquisition‚ information systems that deliver the same level of service to all customers at all branches‚ new and old. (Richard 2002‚ 177) For these companies‚ Microeconomics has genuinely become an enabler of change that boosts competitive
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IB/AP Economics Unit 1 Introduction to Economics Introduction to Economics AP and IB Economics Unit 1 Definitions of social science and economics Definitions of microeconomics and macroeconomics Definitions of growth‚ development and sustainable development Positive and normative concepts Ceteris paribus Scarcity • factors of production: land‚ labor‚ capital and management/entrepreneurship • payments to factors of production: rent‚ wages‚ interest‚ profit Choice Utility: basic definition Opportunity
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[pic] [pic] AirAsia Company 1. Company Background: AirAsia‚ as the second Malaysian National Airline‚ provides a totally different type of service in line with the nation’s aspirations to benefit all citizens and worldwide travellers. Such service takes the form of a no frills - low airfares flight offering‚ 40%-60% lower than what is currently offered in this part of Asia. The story of emergence of AirAsia is similar to Ryanair‚ since both carriers underwent a
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Section A a. Explain the concept of dominant strategy equilibrium. 1. http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~jkchoi/game4.pdf 2. http://econweb.umd.edu/~borowitz/dominant_strategy_equilibrium.pdf b. Discuss the concept of Nash equilibrium. 1.http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/igt/nash.pdf 2. http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/NashEquilibrium.pdf c. Is every dominant strategy equilibrium a Nash equilibrium? 1. http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/game-theory/nash-equilibrium
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Introduction to AirAsia Established in 1993 and officially started its operation on 18 November 1996‚ AirAsia is a low cost carrier (LCC) airline in the aviation industry. On 2 December 2001‚ the heavily-indebted government-linked commercial airline was bought over by the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AirAsia‚ Tony Fernandes. From then‚ AirAsia cleared its former debts which worthed USD 11 million and became a profit-making low cost carrier. The main hub of AirAsia is in Kuala Lumpur
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Chapter -1 1. The study of microeconomics includes the study of - Output and employment growth as markets expand in reaction to a rising price level in the economy. - Business investment and government spending in the marketplace. - The number of new jobs and income created as the economy grows. - How firms‚ workers‚ consumers‚ and investors interact and make decisions in the marketplace. Microeconomics is the study of the behavior of individual economic units: consumers‚ firms‚ workers
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whether each of the following statements applies to microeconomics or macroeconomics‚ and why: 12 Marks Total a. The unemployment rate in Canada was 7.0 percent in January 2010 Answer: This is the macroeconomic statement because it describes the unemployment rate of the whole country. b. A Canadian software firm discharged 15 workers last month and transferred the work to India. Answer: This is the microeconomic statement because it focuses in an individual Canadian
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SUBJECT NAME : MICROECONOMICS SUBJECT CODE : BEC1001 ACADEMIC YEAR : AY 2012/2013‚ OCT SEMESTER “By submitting this work‚ we are declaring that we are the originators of this work and that all other original sources used in this work have been appropriately acknowledged. We understand that plagiarism is the act of taking and using the whole or any part of another person’s work and presenting it as our own without proper acknowledgement. We also
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Oil rises above $103 ahead of Iran nuclear talks Published: Thursday‚ 12 Apr 2012 | 5:43 AM ET SINGAPORE - Oil prices rose above $103 a barrel Thursday in Asia as traders looked to negotiations this weekend over Iran’s nuclear program. Benchmark oil for May delivery was up 42 cents to $103.12 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.68 to settle at $102.70 in New York on Wednesday. Brent crude for May delivery
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