BUS400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Capitalism, Tim Hortons, Kraft Dinner

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The market process in chapter 2, we defined a market as a mechanism that facilitates the exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers. For a market to exist, the following must be present: at least one buyer o at least one seller. O a product (good or service: a price. Buyers and sellers are players in the market. The buying and selling decisions of the players are reflected in their behavior in the market. This chapter discusses behavior in markets that are competitive; these markets have so many buyers and sellers that no one can individually exert any influence on the price. The market process is the process by which buyers and sellers exchange goods and services. In a free enterprise system, such as ours, prices play a crucial role in determining the flow of goods and services between buyers and sellers. You will see shortly that demand and supply are at the heart of the market process.

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1. Characteristics of competitive markets

The model of competitive markets relies on these three core assumptions:

1.	There must be many buyers and sellers a few players can't dominate the market.
2.	Firms must produce identical products buyers must regard all sellers' products as equivalent.
3.	Firms and resources must be fully mobile, allowing free entry into and exit from the industry.

The first two conditions imply that all consumers and firms are price takers. While the third is not necessary for price-taking behavior, assume for this problem that a market cannot maintain competition in the long run without free entry.

Identify whether or not each of the following scenarios describes a competitive market, along with the correct explanation of why or why not.

Scenario	Competitive?
The government has granted the U.S. Postal Service the exclusive right to deliver mail.	________________
Several stores in the mall sell hooded sweatshirts. Each store's sweatshirts reflect the style of that particular store. Additionally, some makers use higher-quality cotton than others, which is reflected in the apparel's prices.
Two taxi companies serve most of the market in a big city. Consumers don't care about which taxi company they take if they decide it's worth taking a taxi, they flag down the nearest one.	_________________
There are dozens of pasta producers that sell pasta to hundreds of Italian restaurants nationwide. The restaurant owners buy from the cheapest pasta producer available to

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1. In the formula for Bayes theorem if the w-probability is greater than the zero than the a-probably is less than the b-probability

2. posted offer markets with at least two sellers will generate prices that remain a little above prices from double auction markets

3. running the price clock in a dutch auction once will produce higher observed prices compared to running the clock twice

4. if losers pay winners in a sealed bid auction then they will eventually be willing to bid up to 75 percent more than the winning prize

5. with only one seller in a posted offer market prices willl tend to move upward toward the monopoly price

6. adjusting the concentration of sweet versus sour enabled rats to have a large negative income effect for sour water

7. a sales tax on large luxury boats will impact the buyers more than the sellers of these boats causing the buyers to pay more than half the cost of the sales tax

8. if each seller knew all of the sellers unit costs and the buyers knew all of the buyers unit values a buyer or seller would be able to calculate the competitive equilibrium price before an experiment began

9. suppose your income taxes rise only on incomes over 250,000 annualkly then your after tax income will be unafftected if your annual income is 100,000

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1. Recall the loser pay winner auction experiment done in class.

a. Discuss how these experiments explain why the bidder changed their minds toward wanting to bid well above the value of the prize, even though they refused to do so at the beginning

b. Discuss how the experiment explains why George Bush and many citizens changed their minds about a

1. In the formula for Bayes theorem if the w-probability is greater than the zero than the a-probably is less than the b-probability

true or false

2. posted offer markets with at least two sellers will generate prices that remain a little above prices from double auction markets

3. running the price clock in a dutch auction once will produce higher observed prices compared to running the clock twice

4. if losers pay winners in a sealed bid auction then they will eventually be willing to bid up to 50 percent more than the winning prize

5. with only one seller in a posted offer market prices willl tend to move upward toward the monopoly price

6. adjusting the concentration of sweet versus sour enabled rats to have a large negative income effect for sour water

7. a sales tax on large luxury boats will impact the buyers more than the sellers of these boats causing the buyers to pay more than half the cost of the sales tax

9. suppose your income taxes rise only on incomes over 250,000 annualkly then your after tax income will be unafftected if your annual income is 100,000

those first nine are true and false

these are short answer

1. explain the logical steps to explain how negative price effects can reult from the negative income effects

2.what happens to observed prices inposted offer and double auction markets as the number of sellers drops to 2. what happens when these two markets sellers drops to 1

3. in a looser pay winner auction. why do bidders change their minds toward wanting to bid well above the value of the price even though they refused to do so at the beginning. how does this experiment explain why george bush and citizens changed their minds about preemptive attack on iraq. how do these experiments explain why england wanted to tax trade in the american colonies which led to rebellion and the formation of the us.

if you could help with any of these thatd be great

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