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Tài liệu Microeconomics for MBAs 17 doc
... departments and, for larger projects, across
departments. However, “teams” also present problems in the form of opportunities for
shirking (which should be self–evident to many MBA students who form their ... the
most common form of business organization and also the form that contributed most to
national production. As it is, while proprietorships outnumber other business forms (for...
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... people. Most
motel operators, for instance, have room for only a very small newsstand, and so they tend to
carry the mass-circulation weeklies and monthlies.
For their own reasons, consumers ... quantity at each price Q
3
instead of Q2 at price P
2
, for
example. They will also accept a lower price for each quantity P
1
instead of P2 for quantity
Q
2
. Conversely, the decr...
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... mathematical formula for computing the present value of future costs or benefits received one year
from now is PV = [1/(1 + r)] f, where PV stands for present value, r for the rater of interest, and f for ... benefits in a graph.
10. Henry Ford more than doubled his workers’ wages. Did worker real income double by
Ford’s pay policy? Reflecting on the general principles behind Ford’...
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... on that
information. People cannot assimilate all the information they need to make
rational choices, however. People do lack information, and they could make
better choices if information ... payments and fringe
benefits for unionized retirees at the same time they negotiate the pay packages for the
current workers. Even when retirement benefits are fixed for retirees’ lives, the...
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... concern for the poor, who
may be unable to afford the information necessary to make an informed choice. The poor
may also be the least capable of understanding technical product information, ... The market demand for information, like the market demand for protective
bumpers, will not fully reflect its social benefits. Because of external benefits, the
quantity of information produc...
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... advantage in pricing
their products.
When Congress forces employers to pay more in money wages, it also forces
them to pay less in other forms, most notably in fringe benefits. If there are ...
9
Ibid.
Chapter 4 Government Controls: How Management
Incentives Are Affected
17
17
the empirical work of Princeton University economists David Card and Alan Krueger
who concluded...
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... tried, which forced the team members to think
competitively, had median initial effort levels on par with the initial effort levels
observed under forcing contracts. However, the effort level ... that the history of the team performance matters: the higher the
team performance at the start, the greater the team performance thereafter (although the
effort level might be declining over ......
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... further removed from the local information available to workers at the bottom of the
pyramid. There is a need to process information up and down the pyramid. When the
information goes up, there are ... business travelers. For example, USAir
announced plans to provide a Business Select class (featuring roomier seats and better meals)
for those business travelers who pay full fare for...
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... uniform amount for each worker and in which the provision of the fringe has no
impact on worker productivity, but increases the value of work and increases the supply of
Chapter 6. Reasons for ...
percentage of monthly sales, for the right to use a brand name and/or trademark for
example, the name “McDonalds” along with the “golden arches.”
Chapter 6. Reasons for Firm Incenti...
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... economic cost of reducing pollution to ten units is $9,300; $1,500 for
firm A. $800 for B, $3,000 each for C and D, and $1,000 for E. This figure is
Chapter 7 Market Failures: External Costs ... a fully
informed buyer would be willing to pay for them is $3,000, with the other 25 percent
worth $5,000. This means that a buyer with no information on the condition of a car for
sa...