Tài liệu Microeconomics for MBAs 40 ppt

... shows, however, you are actually willing to pay more for the first can $0.30—than for the second. If the store offers one can for $0.30 and two cans for $0.55, you will still buy two cans, but its ... one for $0.30, two for $0.55, and three for $0.75, and its profits will rise further. 6 The deal does not change the marginal cost of providing each can, which is below the se...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 18:20

... four- function model for $ 240. The next year, in an attempt to maintain its high prices, Hewlett- Packard introduced a sophisticated model that could perform many more functions, still for $395. By ... to look for other reasons, mainly as a means of improving incentives for workers to do as the employer wants. As it turns out, Henry Ford was not offering his workers something ext...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... Intuit, Inc., which was courted for a buyout in 1994 by Microsoft. Cook eventually agreed to sell Intuit to Microsoft for $1.5 billion in Microsoft stock, 40 percent above Intuit’s market price ... edict specifying maximum prices for everything from poultry to gold, and maximum wages for everyone from lawyers to the cleaners of sewer systems. The penalty for violating the edic...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... effectively for the “public interest,” and several of the possible explanations for this observed behavior force us to step outside the scope of the public goods theory. Why may people work for the ... good, individuals who try to organize people for that purpose may go through a learning experience before they conclude that it is too costly a venture for them. Even if the or...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... ways, and many of their differences have important implications for the type of productive efforts for which they are best suited. For example, both of the authors would have liked to have been ... absence of direct, close-at-hand residual claimants. 30 If, for example, a public agency managed to perform the same service for a hundred thousand dollars a year less than in previ...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... of 2 beef for 1 textile, United States and Japan agree to trade 40 beef for 20 textiles. Consumption levels after international trade 20 textiles 50 beef 5 textiles 40 beef ... quotas is that quotas are typically specified for each important foreign producer. Otherwise, all foreign producers would rush to sell their goods before the quota was reached. When quotas...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... dollar holdings of foreign banks. So will American expenditures abroad whether for tours or for foreign stocks and bonds. Americans must have francs for such transactions; therefore, they must ... national defense, have lobbied for protection from foreign oil in wartime, the effects of a tariff are not entirely straightforward as might be thought. By making foreign oil more expens...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 10:15

... would measure the effort expended. Total effort for all workers combined increased as workers were added to the group doing the pulling at the same time that the individual efforts of the workers ... the rope, the individual effort averaged 84 percent of the effort expended by one worker. With eight workers pulling, the average individual effort was one-half the effort of the one worker...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 17:15

... rather than be forced to pay a higher than expected price for the input. This is exactly the arrangement that automobile companies have with some of their suppliers. Ford, for example, buys ... percent of its parts in-house in the mid 1990s, versus 50 percent for Ford (the second lowest-cost American producer) and 70 percent for General Motors. Toyota produces only 25 percent of i...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 17:15

... of being around for a number of years. Financially shaky firms in highly unstable markets are going to be reluctant to pay for the cost of their workers’ MBAs. Credit will, for them, be hard ... income in deferred forms and will not likely have strong expectations of a long career with their companies, factors that reinforce the tendency of workers to pay for their own MBAs....

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 17:15