Throughout the years electric cars have always been behind gas powered vehicles. They have always been short on the side of performance and range. And most people want a vehicle that has lots of performance. America has opted for the more sporty and luxurious SUVs and trucks. These vehicles use a lot of gas to run‚ but are a way of American life. Electric cars did not start to become popular until the late 90’s‚ when the price of gas began to rise. In the beginning‚ electric cars were very slow.
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in the price of Good 1 will not change the horizontal intercept of the budget line. 2. Henrietta’s utility function is U(x1‚ x2) = x1x2. She has diminishing marginal rate of substitution between goods 1 and 2. 3. Other things being equal‚ a lump sum tax is at least as good for a consumer as a sales tax that collects the same revenue from him. 4. Sharon spends all of her income on peaches and strawberries. Peaches are a normal good for her. Her income increased by 20 percent and prices did not
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ECON 281 Fall Term Intermediate Microeconomic theory I University of Alberta XiaoGang Che Chapter One Overview 1. Defining Microeconomics and Macroeconomics 2. Microeconomic Modeling Tools • Constrained Optimization • Equilibrium Analysis • Comparative Statics 3. The Types of Microeconomic Analysis • Positive Analysis • Normative Analysis Chapter One 2 Microeconomics Defined Microeconomics is the study of how individual economic decision-makers such as consumers‚ workers‚ firms
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must meet two basic concepts of economics these are Microeconomics and Macroeconomics and to get to know these concepts is necessary to know which is the economy and economics is the science that studies human behavior and trade ‚ sales tax‚ receipt of wages‚ credit‚ is the science of the usual business of the above are some definitions that can be found in the economy as such. In this research we can differentiate macroeconomics microeconomics its relationship to the economy to serve both‚ we can
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“the Cap and- trade Bill issue the main goal of the government is to propose a law to reduce the level of harmful greenhouse gas emission by trying to help the economy go green in a cost-effective manner”. Many people think that Cap and Trade is just another tax source for the government to grow itself and waste money. Moreover‚ increasing taxes to business will bring price increment of its services; in order to offset the increment cost. However‚ these financial resources could be used to achieve
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research showed that while sugar cane industry is a critical sector to the economy‚ its productivity is going down. It was discovered that the low productivity is largely due to failure to plough out old cane‚ lack of equipment for operations‚ low prices paid for the harvested cane‚ high transport and haulage charges‚ limited training and unavailability of inputs. This is largely due to limited access to cheap finance and credit. The research recommends that farmers be given cheap finance and easily
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Supply and Demand Simulation Michael Roach ECO/365 March 17‚ 2014 Tim Randolph Supply and Demand Simulation This simulation of “Applying Supply and Demand Concepts” gave me a true understanding of how things work in the market place. We go through life dealing with these situations‚ but not knowing how they really affect us and the world around us. I had some ideas of how these principles worked‚ but was I taken for a loop when I tried to balance out the equations. This is what I learned
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relative to the market and they interdependence in making decision. The number of competitor is less and any oligopoly firms changes in the price and other economic factors or marketing strategy ‚it will affect the change in competitor firm. So the firms must attention about the other competitor change in the industry and also need to think over the market demand and cost of its product. In oligopoly market no one can ignore the reaction of another firms so they must be interdependences. For Instance
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I. MICROECONOMIC Micro-environment is preferred as ‘the operating system’ which includes the forces that has significant impacts on and can affect the organization’s ability to operate and serve its customer (Chaffey et al‚ 2009). This is influenced by the need of customers and how services are provided to them through the competitors‚ marketing intermediaries‚ and suppliers within the marketplace (Chaffey et al‚ 2009). 1. Customer Airasia provides to its customers the basic flight carrier
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their inefficiency in the market by providing services and products at higher prices because they set prices. Given there is no competition‚ monopolists tend to provide low quality products and services. Therefore the government regulates a monopoly-operating firm economically from their pricing behavior. This involves setting prices in order to control the profits level earned by such firms. This setting of air prices under Australia under the now redundant two-airline policy. Economic efficiency
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