To patent or not to patent, that is the question is a post on the Economic History Association site that fits our upcoming segment on…
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Economies of scale: a hot dog factory (video)
This term we’ve focused on traditional goods markets, though you may have not noticed that. Here’s a good post on why some services look quite…
Financial Times: The brashness and bravado in big deals: these days, doing the deal is what matters; justification comes afterwards. John Kay, October 16th. A…
The Financial Times reports that France is poised to bail out Peugeot; meanwhile Ford will close its Belgian plant. This will impact suppliers, particularly Lear,…
We’ll see it in our readings on the beer industry — and in other contexts we’ve mentioned it in passing already — but there is…
This is a replication of a post on the Autos and Economics blog. Since we will be discussing economies of scale and numbers of firms…
Find all our relevant metrics for a monopolist when: demand p=a – bq supply cost structure TC = F + cq + ½dq2 That is,…
do the 4 problems at the end of chapter 2 read the two papers on sakai one paper is on (excess) entry in the realtor…