Price fixing assignment: 1. Why is price fixing an offense? Price fixing my cause market failures and distortions as it harms competition in a free market. This in turn adversely affects economic efficiency and consumer welfare. In India‚ price fixing and other such activities that have an adverse effect on competition are offense under Competition Act‚2002. In US‚ price fixing can be prosecuted as a criminal federal offense under section 1 of Sherman Antitrust Act. 2. What are the implications
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Price Elasticity of Supply * Price Elasticity of Supply: * The degree of price elasticity of supply depends on how easily - and therefore quickly - producers can shift resources between alternative uses. Unlike PED‚ there is no Total Revenue Test for Price Elasticity of Supply. * Because there is a direct relationship between Price & Total revenue‚ they always move together. DETERMINANT OF PRICE ELASTICITY OF SUPPLY: TIME! THREE PERIODS: Market period--> short run --> long
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Intermediate Price Theory Problem Set 1 -- Supply and Demand 1. Assume that the United States demand curve for corn is QD = 80 - 2P where P is the price of corn (in dollars per bushels) and QD is the quantity of demanded of corn ( in billions of bushels) and that QS = 20 + 4P is the supply curve for corn where QS is the quantity of corn supplied (in billions of bushels). a. What are the equilibrium price and quantity? At equilibrium‚
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he government on Wednesday decided to raise petrol prices by Rs 5 per litre and diesel by Rs 3 per litre that will result in freight charges going up. Currently‚ freight charges are about Rs 1.40 per tonne per km with an average of about 450-500 km for a company normally. “The fuel price hike will have a cascading impact on all input costs. Cement prices will be impacted by about Rs 3-4 per 50 kg bag‚ and if we are not able to pass on the hike‚ it will definitely impact our margins‚” said KC Birla
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Price Elasticity of Demand T ’s Jean Shop sells designer jeans. The latest trend setter has been Capri cuffed blue jeans. The demand for the Capri jeans has been very high with teenagers and young women. The business has increased its supply of Capri jeans due to the high demand. The owner‚ Terri Johnson‚ contemplates increasing the price from $9.00 to $10.00. Ms. Johnson needs to know the response of the consumers to the increased price. According to McConnell and Brue (2004)‚ the Price Elasticity
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Price rise is the bane of modern world. Price of essential commodities go on rising every day despite the professed and genuine efforts of the government. The main reason of rising the price as the sky rocket is the im-maturity of the government plan and the unabated raise on the population at the alarming rate. As compared to china and other developed European countries most of the south Asian countries even India had failed miserably in controlling its population. In context of Nepal the
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Price Variation of Rice in West Bengal Abstract There is a saying that goes: rice and fish make a Bengali. West Bengal is a predominantly paddy growing state where 5‚719‚800 hectare of land is under paddy cultivation. The state of West Bengal has always contributed nearly 14-16 per cent of the all India production of rice and productivity of rice in West Bengal has always been higher than the all India average. Significant variation in the price of rice has being observed across the state
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FELTMAN Key success factors for the low-cost airline industry Figure 1 illustrates the process followed to determine the key success factors (KSF) in the low-cost airline industry. It is adapted from the process developed by Grant (2005: 93). The texts highlighted in red are the responses to the questions posed in the model and serves as the inputs to the discussion on the KSFs for the low-cost airline industry. Figure 1. Identifying key success factors in the low-cost airline industry. Cost
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The consumer price index or CPI is a more direct measure than per capita GDP of the standard of living in a country. It is based on the overall cost of a fixed basket of goods and services bought by a typical consumer‚ relative to price of the same basket in some base year. By including a broad range of thousands of goods and services with the fixed basket‚ the CPI can obtain an accurate estimate of the cost of living. It is important to remember that the CPI is not a dollar value like GDP‚ but instead
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UNILEVER MEMO In order to gain market shares through the low-income segment of the Brazilian market‚ Unilever should launch a new Detergent Powder brand at an affordable price‚ which could replace in the long-run Campeiro‚ its cheapest brand. However this strategy is not without any risks‚ since it can lead to the cannibalization of Minerva. With 81% of market shares in Brazil‚ Unilever is the leader of the Detergent Powder market. It owns three brands in Brazil: Omo‚ Minerva and Campeiro. Omo
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