You just bought a regional commercial airline that operates with a fleet of 5 planes. Because you are still relatively new, your flights usually take off at 60% capacity. Unlike tangible products, the seats that are unoccupied on each flight cannot be stored to be used or sold on a later flight. What service characteristic does this example fall under?

You just bought a regional commercial airline that operates with a fleet of 5 planes. Because you are still relatively new, your flights usually take off at 60% capacity. Unlike tangible products, the seats that are unoccupied on each flight cannot be stored to be used or sold on a later flight. What service characteristic does this example fall under?

Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach

5th Edition

ISBN:9781337106665

Author:Luke M. Froeb, Brian T. McCann, Michael R. Ward, Mike Shor

Publisher:Luke M. Froeb, Brian T. McCann, Michael R. Ward, Mike Shor

Chapter20: The Problem Of Adverse Selection Moral Hazard

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 3MC

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

Energy entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens has proposed converting the trucking fleet in the United States to liquefied natural gas (LNG) and using wind power to replace the missing LNG in electric power production. What infrastructure issues do you see that must be resolved before the Pickens plan could be adopted?
What life cycle cost concept begins raising concerns by year 5 with any electric vehicle (EV)? If that issue affected resale value at year 5, would that affect perceived value-in-use? How exactly?
During your first month as an employee atGreenfield Industries (a large drill-bit manufacturer),you are asked to evaluate alternatives forproducing a newly designed drill bit on a turningmachine. Your boss’ memorandum to you haspractically no information about what the alternativesare and what criteria should be used. The same taskwas posed to a previous employee who could notfinish the analysis, but she has given you the followinginformation: An old turning machine valued at $350,000exists (in the warehouse) that can be modified for thenew drill bit. The in-house technicians have givenan estimate of $40,000 to modify this machine, andthey assure you that they will have the machine readybefore the projected start date (although they havenever done any modifications of this type). It is hopedthat the old turning machine will be able to meetproduction requirements at full capacity. An outsidecompany, McDonald Inc., made the machine sevenyears ago and can easily do the same…
Tennis Products, Inc., produces three models of high-quality tennis rackets. The following table contains recent information on the sales, costs, and profitability of the three models: MODEL AVERAGEQUANTITYSOLD (UNITS/MONTH) CURRENTPRICE TOTALREVENUE VARIABLECOST PERUNIT CONTRIBUTIONMARGIN PERUNIT CONTRIBUTIONMARGIN* A B C Total 15,000 5,000 10,000 $30 35 45 $450,000 175,000 450,000 $1,075,000 $15.00 18.00 20.00 $15 17 25 $225,000 85,000 250,000 $560,000 *Contribution to fixed costs and profits.The company is considering lowering the price of Model A to $27 in an effort to increase the number of units sold. Based on the results of price changes that have been instituted in the past, Tennis Products’ chief economist estimates the arc price elasticity of demand to be –2.5. Furthermore, she estimates the arc cross elasticity of demand between Model A and Model B to be approximately 0.5 and between Model A and Model C to be approximately 0.2. Variable costs…
Problem 6Cannes Croissants (not a real company) wishes to determine the optimum production quantity for its topselling product, almond croissants. The annual demandfor almond croissants is 12,000 units. The setup costs fora production run of the croissants is US$15. The holdingcost per unit per year is US$0.50. Production is mostefficient when 80 croissants are produced per day. Thecompany operates 300 days during a year.a What is the economic production quantity (EPQ)?b How many production runs will there by per year?c What is the maximum inventory level?d What is the total annual cost (in US dollars)?e What is the length of a production run in days?
Problem 1. During your first month as an employee at Greenfield Industries (a large drill-bitmanufacturer), you are asked to evaluate alternatives for producing a newly designed drill bit on aturning machine. Your boss’ memorandum to you has practically no information about what thealternatives are and what criteria should be used. The same task was posed to a previous employeewho could not finish the analysis, but she has given you the following information: An old turningmachine valued at $350,000 exists (in the warehouse) that can be modified for the new drill bit.The in-house technicians have given an estimate of $40,000 to modify this machine, and they assureyou that they will have the machine ready before the projected start date (although they havenever done any modifications of this type). It is hoped that the old turning machine will be able tomeet production requirements at full capacity. An outside company, McDonald Inc., made themachine seven years ago and can easily do the…
A European consortium has spent a considerable amount of time andmoney developing a new supersonic aircraft. The aircraft gets high markson all performance measures except noise. In fact, because of the noise,the consortium’s management is concerned that the U.S. government mayimpose restrictions on some of the American airports where the aircraftcan land. Management judges a 50–50 chance that there will be somerestrictions. Without restrictions, management estimates its (presentdiscounted) profit at $125 million; with restrictions, its profit would beonly $25 million. Management must decide now, before knowing thegovernment’s decision, whether to redesign parts of the aircraft to solvethe noise problem. The cost of the redesign program is $25 million. Thereis a .6 chance that the redesign program will solve the noise problem (inwhich case, full landing rights are a certainty) and a .4 chance it will fail. Using a decision tree, determine the consortium’s best course ofaction, assuming…
1. Direct laborrate: $15.00perhour Production material: $375 per 100 items Factory overhead: 125% of direct labor Packing costs: 75%ofdirectlabor Desiredproﬁt: 20%oftotalmanufacturing cost use the above information to answer how many units must be sold to achieve a proﬁt of $25,000? [Note that the units sold must account for total production costs (direct and overhead) plus desired proﬁt. 2. A small textile plant was constructed in 2004. The major equipment, costs, and factors are shown below. Estimate the cost to build a new plant in 2014 if the index for this type of equipment has increased at an average rate of 12% per year for the past 10 years. Show work and Select the closest answer. a) $4,618,000 b) $10,623,000 c) $14,342,000 d) $ 14,891,000
An entrepreneur named Khadijah has total revenue shown by the equation TR = 150Q - 5Q² and total costs shown by the equation TC = 20 - 10Q. Determine the amount of output that must be produced by Khadijah to get the maximum profit and what is the maximum profit from that amount of output. Prove that the value obtained is the maximum!
Answer the following question with (True) if the statement is correct and with(False) if the statement is wrong 1. Project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product only ( __ )Justify:2. Time, budget, resources and customer specifications are the project limitations( __ )Justify:3. Adding working shifts to a late project will help crashing the project towards thedeadline( __ )Justify:4. Finish-to-start (FS) is a logical relationship in which a predecessor activity cannot startuntil a successor activity has finished. ( __ )Justify:5. The project customer/user not considered as a project stakeholder. ( __ )Justify:
Johnson Controls spent more than $2.5 millionretrofitting a government complex and installing acomputerized energy-management system for theState of Massachusetts. As a result, the state’s energybill dropped from an average of $6 million a yearto $3.5 million. Moreover, both parties will benefitfrom the 10-year life of the contract. Johnson recovers half the money it saved in reduced utility costs(about $1.2 million a year over 10 years); Massachusetts has more money to spend on other things. Whatis the rate of return realized by Johnson Controls inthis energy-control system?
Metters Cabinets, Inc., needs to choose a productionmethod for its new office shelf, the Maxistand. To help accomplishthis, the firm has gathered the following production cost data: PROCESS TYPE ANNUALIZEDFIXED COST OFPLANT & EQUIP. VARIABLE COSTS (PER UNIT) ($)LABOR MATERIAL ENERGY MassCustomization $1,260,000 30 18 12Intermittent $1,000,000 24 26 20Repetitive $1,625,000 28 15 12Continuous $1,960,000 25 15 10Metters Cabinets projects an annual demand of 24,000 units forthe Maxistand. The Maxistand will sell for $120 per unit. a) Which process type will maximize the annual profit from pro-ducing the Maxistand? b) What is the value of this annual profit?