Explain how markets and governments can deal with a lack of rail competition (for example, in Canada where we have two railways serving most urban centres)?
In order to encourage more competition in the market, the government should provide subsidies at entry level for all firms trying to enter the rail industry.
Also, tax benefits can be provided along with various wage regulations and other benefits to encourage firms to enter the market.
Foreign capital investment must also be encouraged to get the firms started with capital requirements.
Explain how markets and governments can deal with a lack of rail competition (for example, in...
Explain how markets and governments can deal with a lack of rail competition (for example, in Canada where we have two railways serving most urban centres)?
. Explain the role of brands in a monopolistic competition market. How can the pricing and profits for a firm in this market structure differ from perfect competition and when will the two market types reach the same outcome? Why does that make it essential for firms to have a strong brand identity? Give an example of a product with this type of market structure and discuss (briefly) how the firms have established their brands.
1.Governments often claim that they impose high taxes on cigarettes because smoking is bad for your health. They claim that the high taxes are intended to discourage your consumption. Use your understanding of the elasticity of demand to dispute this claim, assuming that cigarettes have a very inelastic demand. Illustrate with a graph. Hint: Very inelastic is not the same as inelastic or perfectly inelastic. 2.Supposing that Canada and China were the only two countries in the world, why would...
1.Governments often claim that they impose high taxes on cigarettes because smoking is bad for your health. They claim that the high taxes are intended to discourage your consumption. Use your understanding of the elasticity of demand to dispute this claim, assuming that cigarettes have a very inelastic demand. Illustrate with a graph. Hint: Very inelastic is not the same as inelastic or perfectly inelastic. 2.Supposing that Canada and China were the only two countries in the world, why would...
Explain how a study can be important but lack a diverse, random sample and a real-world setting. What type of study is likely to have neither of these?
In an attempt to curb smoking, governments can use two basic approaches to do so. The first is to reduce the demand for smoking though public education. The second is to do so via legal restrictions or taxes. With the aid of two graphs, explain how each type of policy reduces quantity in the affected markets. What is the result on the price as seen by consumers for each type of policy? Which of these two types of policies is likely to have...
1) Analyze how advertising can impact monopolistic competition. 2) In your own opinion explain the the Benefits and Costs of U.S. Environmental Laws. Give a brief example for each to support your opinion.
Use the Law of Demand to explain why all consumers must receive a surplus whenever they purchase more than one unit of a product but may receive no surplus if only one unit is bought. Make up a numerical example to illustrate. Provide two reasons why consumer surplus must increase when the price of a product falls? Explain fully why taxing a product leads to deadweight loss. Use appropriate graphs to explain why the deadweight loss is greater the more...
1.All types of industry structures – competitive markets, monopolies, oligopolies, monopolistic competition, and cartels all strive to reach the point where MC = MR. This statement is true. This statement is false. We do not have enough information to conclude if this is true or false. MR=MC has no practical applications and is just a theory. 2.Should non-profit firms be concerned with the MC=MR profit maximization formula? Non-profit firms do not need to calculate this formula and it will not...
DQ #4 We can say there are three labor markets. The unskilled labor market (manual laborers) tends to be the most competitive as it has no entry barriers and its wages tend to be the lowest. The semi-skilled labor market (electricians, machinists, assembly line workers) is somewhat less competitive and has some moderate entry barriers (apprenticeships, master's licenses, unions) where its wages tend to be higher than in the unskilled labor market. The highly skilled labor market (doctors, economists, lawyers...