to entry dissuade potential entrants? 4 How do information asymmetries (adverse selection and moral hazard) affect consumers/producers? 5 What is likely to be the price and income elasticity of demand for its main products? 6 If the firm is operating in an imperfect market‚ and it’s very likely to be‚ which type is it and why‚ and what are the implications for the consumer? 7 What are the characteristics of the firm’s labour markets in both economies and how have these affected its
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Wage determination in perfect and imperfect markets Perfect competition In perfect labor markets‚ everyone is wage taker – both the employee and the employer. On the one hand‚ the employer and his firm cannot control the market as there are too numerous firms and the firm is price taker on the product market and labor market. On the other hand‚ the workers cannot control their wage as they have no economic power to do so or they are of a clearly definite type. In perfect competition there is
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Regulating the Philippine stock market: the Securities Regulation Code and the information efficiency of Philippine stock prices Noel B. Del Castillo* Miriam College‚ nbdelcastillo@gmail.com ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC) on the information efficiency of the Philippine stock prices. Research in other countries has shown that new regulation has had a long-term effect in improving the information efficiency of stock prices. The
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will discuss the difference between perfect and imperfect competition‚ and explain how imperfect competition may have affected the growth and development of the telecommunications sector in Malaysia. 3.1 The difference between perfect and imperfect competition It is traditional to divide industries into categories according to the degree of competition that exists between the firms within the industry. There are four such categories. At one extreme is perfect competition‚ where there are very many
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Perfect Labor Markets When looking at the market for labor‚ it is useful to make a similar distinction to that made in the theory of the firm: the distinction between perfect and imperfect markets. Although in practice few labor markets are totally perfect‚ many do at least approximate to it. The assumptions of perfect labor markets are similar to those of perfect goods markets. The main one is that everyone is a wage taker. In other words‚ neither employers nor employees have any economic
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1. Consider a personal computer market with two firms‚ X and Y. Suppose that Firm X and Y have the following total cost function: TCX=10QXTCY=10QY . The market is given by P=100-QX-QY. (a) Calculate the Cournot equilibrium outputs of firm X and Y in this market. (b) Calculate their market price in the Cournot equilibrium. (c) Calculate their profits in the Cournot equilibrium. (d) Suppose that firm X is considering implementing a proprietary technology they have developed. The onetime sunk cost
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Interpretation of Primary Market research information During my questionnaire I asked questions that would provide me with good information from the answers. I asked people face to face to increase the validity of responses I received. Validity would be increased as people are less likely to give you a false answer if you are asking them face to face. I asked a range of questions in my questionnaire like which geographical area do you live in and the income they receive. After a certain amount of
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perfectly competitive markets where there are many sellers who are price takers to a pure monopoly where one single supplier dominates an industry and sets price. We start our analysis of market structures by looking at perfect competition. Firms operate within their market‚ which consists of: Supply side: all of the firms producing similar products Demand side: all buyers willing to purchase the products Markets differ; the auto market is far different from the tomato market‚ for example.
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a few categories that are considered‚ in the BCG matrix‚ as Dogs‚ being these areas that have a low relative market share and a low growth rate. These are the following: Normal; Antidandruff; and Greasy. Dogs are normally considered unattractive‚ but there are exceptions‚ when the size of these markets is still a great volume of the company’s sales‚ as we may see in this case. For the Normal market‚ the company should maintain or increase its investment‚ as it represents a big slice of their sales
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discussion will define the perfect competition market model‚ address the model’s critiques‚ and touch upon the model’s implications. Perfect Competition Market Model Perfect competition (PC) is one of several models used to explain the nature of competition among companies. PC represents an ideal case in which competition leads to the most beneficial outcome for consumers (Block‚ Barnett & Wood‚ 2002‚ p. 51). PC is known as pure competition‚ and describes a hypothetical market in which no producer or
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