Market Competition Robert McGill BA 201 Microeconomics 4 April 2011 Market Competition 1. Fill in the table below. Assume TC stands for Total Cost‚ TFC as Total Fixed Cost‚ TVC as Total Variable Cost‚ ATC as Average Total Cost‚ AFC as Average Fixed Cost‚ AVC as Average Variable Cost‚ and MC as Marginal Cost. TC TFC TVC ATC AFC AVC MC Units of Output 0 20 20 0 0 0 0 0 1 21 20 1 21 20 1 1 2 24 20 4 12 10 2 3 3 32 20 12 10.67 6.67 4 8 4 48 20 28 12 5 7 16 5 75 20 55 12
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EXERCISES FOR MICROECONOMICS TOPIC 1 Economics: An Introduction (Chapters 1 & 2 in the Textbook) EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWINGTERMS ◎ Average benefit ◎ Average cost ◎ Economic surplus ◎ Economics ◎ Microeconomics ◎ Macroeconomics ◎ Marginal benefit ◎ Marginal cost ◎ Normative economics ◎ Positive economics ◎ Rational person ◎ Sunk cost ◎ Opportunity cost ◎ Absolute advantage ◎ Comparative advantage ◎ Attainable point ◎ Unattainable point ◎ Efficient point ◎ Inefficient
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its relationship to certain microeconomic principles. Thesis: While Starbucks has been an industry leader in the specialty coffee market‚ rapid overexpansion and current economic conditions have caused it to lose its market dominance. Is the company strong enough to recover? I. The origins of Starbucks A. 1971 Beginnings B. Starbucks goes public in 1992 C. Rapid expansion from mid-1990s to mid-2000s II. Starbucks provides microeconomic principles A. Supply and
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Production–possibility frontier In economics‚ a production–possibility frontier (PPF)‚ sometimes called a production–possibility curve‚ production-possibility boundary or product transformation curve‚ is a graph that compares the production rates of two commodities that use the same fixed total of the factors of production. Graphically bounding the production set‚ the PPF curve shows the maximum specified production level of one commodity that results given the production level of the other. By
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Analyzing the Monopolistic Competition of the Retail Industry Understanding the Terms Symbol = a code comprised of letters used as a unique identification of the stock 52 week High = the highest price reached during the last 52 weeks 52 week Low = the lowest price reached during the last 52 weeks Dividend = taxable payment declared by a company’s board of directors & given to its shareholders out of the company’s current/retained earnings Dividend Yield = yield
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Question Examine the possible effects of implementing a minimum wage in Malaysia from a microeconomic perspective. Abstract Minimum wages has always been a worldwide topic that is constantly argued in many countries. It has always been argued that once minimum wages is applied‚ there would not be enough competition among workers in the country. As a result‚ an important question had been brought out; who will benefits when the minimum wage rises? How is the distribution of income for poor
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Microeconomic First Homework Chapter 1 4. You win $100 in a basketball pool. You have a choice between spending the money now or putting it away for a year in a bank account that pays 5 percent interest. What is the opportunity cost of spending the 100$ now? Answer: By spending the money right away the opportunity cost is 5 percent of 100 dollars that is 5 dollars plus the 100$ itself. So the total opportunity cost is $105‚- 5. The company that you manage has invested $5 million in developing
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Microeconomics Essay The supermarket industry in the UK could be described as an Oligopoly Market. Based on your research into supermarkets in the UK‚ discuss whether this market structure creates a situation that is more or less to the benefit of consumers. For many students studying abroad‚ they will go to supermarkets every week. The Supermarkets in the United Kingdom sell many different kinds of products and it is easy to find a large supermarket everywhere. There are four big and
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Chapter 1 Preliminaries Questions for Review 1. It is often said that a good theory is one that can be refuted by an empirical‚ data-oriented study. Explain why a theory that cannot be evaluated empirically is not a good theory. A theory is useful only if it succeeds in explaining and predicting the phenomena it was intended to explain. If a theory cannot be evaluated or tested by comparing its predictions to known facts and data‚ then we have no idea whether the theory is valid. If
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Microeconomics I Undergraduate Programs: Business Administration and Economics 2012-2013 P rofessor : 1st Semester F ernando S. Machado ( fmachado@ucp.pt ) João Pereira de Almeida‚ Eduardo Catroga‚ João Coelho‚ Marta Francisco‚ Mário Meira‚ Francisca Rebelo‚ João Brogueira de Sousa. Basic Analysis of Markets Exercise 1. How important is it for a firm to know that the own price elasticity of the demand is unitary? Exercise 2. Admit that the market demand faced by a company is
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