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    Comparative and Absolute advantages: Comparative advantage is the ability to make or produce something at a lower opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is something that we do every single day in the way we live our lives. This is giving up something for something else. If you wanted to buy some new sports gear for your man cave it may cost $100, but if you only make $50 a week. You unfortunately would have to give up spending any of your money for two whole weeks to buy some of this new swag. So you

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    PAPA JOHN’S PIZZA AND ECONOMIES OF SCOPE 1 Papa John’s Pizza and Economies of Scope MGT407, Unit 4 Patten University PAPA JOHN’S PIZZA AND ECONOMIES OF SCOPE 2 Papa John’s Pizza was founded in 1984 by John Schnatter, whose goal was to make high- quality pizzas and deliver them – something unusual back then. This company is typically ranked currently as the third largest national pizza chain, with franchises expanding outside of the United States. When a business is expanding, one thing worthwhile

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    1. Question 1 The short run is when at least one factor of production is in fixed supply. The law of diminishing marginal returns is a law, which state that if one factor of production is increase while other factors are in a fixed number like capital, change in total output will first rise and then fall. This law can impact the marginal cost, which is the change in total costs from increasing output by one extra unit. The formula for MC is 'change in total cost divided by change in quantity’

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    Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________ ID: A CH 12 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ 1. The fundamental goal of a firm is a. different for each firm. b. to make a quality product. c. to maximize profit. d. to gain market share. e. decrease its employment of workers in order to cut its costs. 2. Lauren runs a chili restaurant in San Francisco. Her total revenue last

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    Fixed Cost On the other hand Dr. Pepper-Snapple Group does have a large number of fixed cost. Fixed costs are “cost that are constant and must be paid no matter what level of the activity is chosen.” DP has over 21 manufacturing centers and 115 distribution centers around the world, according to Dr. Pepper Snapple Group ‘s annual report. This means that DP is paying rent on a large number of buildings, leasing our buying equipment that they use at these facilities in order to produce DP. Those are

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    Merger is the combining of two or more firms, generally by offering the stockholders of one company securities in the acquiring company in exchange for the surrender of their stock. Conglomerate is a kind of merger, a combination among two or more different companies, which focus on different business in the different market, as well as having no relationship in the productive process. Vertical Merger is the integration of the business which in the same industry but in the different step of supply

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    Domino’s Pizza Report - Economics project Introduction: Domino’s pizza is a multinational company that operates in many different regions. It was founded in 1960, started by 2 brothers, Tom and James Monaghan, at Michigan, US, although James later left Domino’s after 8 months. Originally known as Dominick, it expanded to 3 stores by 1965, and after some arguments, later changed its name to Domino’s Pizza, Inc. The 3 dots on the logo represent the first 3 stores opened in Michigan. The first Domino’s

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    costs decreases as output increases, there are economies of scale Margincal cost: refers to the rate of change of total cost with respect to output the incremental cost of producing exactly one more unit of output. Margincal cost often depeds on the total volume

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    with R&D visions and in a therapeutic area to build detailed knowledge. 3.1.2. Other Economies of Scale. All the potential economies of scale that can arise is the main advantage of merger. Example: In a horizontal merger, this could be quite extensive, especially if there are high fixed costs in the industry. Note: if the merger was a vertical merger or Conglomerate Merger, the scope for economies of scale would be lower. 3.1.3. Avoid Duplication. In some industries it makes sense to have a merger to

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    firm or leisure industry can be considered to be efficient. First of all they may be productively efficient. This is where they would be operating at their lowest average cost, meaning they are benefiting from all economies of scales and experience no diseconomies of scale. They particularly must avoid any waste of factors of production. Allocative efficiency exists when the firm is operating where Price is equal to Marginal Cost. When a firm or industry is allocatively efficient this means they

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