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Issue of Controlling Drug Prices in Healthcare

In eleven pages drug price control as it relates to healthcare and specifically HMOs are examined in terms of the impact of health...

Nationwide Prescription Drug Plan Approaches

In a paper consisting of nine pages a nationwide plan for prescription drugs is examined in terms of economic feasibility and the ...

OPEC, Iran, and Saudi Arabia

In twelve pages this paper discusses the validity of OPEC's assessment of 'price hawk' Iran and 'price dove' Saudi Arabia. Nine s...

2003 and 2004 Anheuser Busch and Intel Shares Statistically Analyzed

2,434,020 30.14 45,306,500 02-Feb-04 52 4,078,700 30.88 67,359,301 26-Jan-04 50.72 2,454,440 30.52 60,677,239 20-Jan-04 51.4 3,571...

Government's Role in the Rising of Gas Prices

dedicate their facilities to distilling one kind of gasoline or the other. Its very costly and time-consuming to retool refineries...

Share Prices and Book Values

patents, copyrights and human capital. The intangible assets are difficult to assess and are rarely included in any accounts, so a...

Share Values and Company Assessment

various assets and deduct the liabilities to give us a book value. In this paper we will consider the debentures as liabilities as...

'Elastic' Prices

In five pages this paper discusses the differences between products that have inelastic prices and those with elastic prices, the ...

5 Questions on Supply and Demand Answered

In seven pages this paper asks and answers five questions on price elasticity, equilibrium price, and supply and demand. Three so...

Managerial Economics Questions

able to be increased more as the demand would not decrease proportionally but at a rate less than the increase. If there are even...

Student Submitted Pricing Strategy Case Study

reduction of the overall cost of each car as more are produced as the fixed costs are divided by the number of cars made. For exam...

Pricing the Embers Charcoal Starter

orders. In reality neither of these are likely to be correct, but with the higher cost calculation pricing can ensure all costs ar...

The High Price of Gas in the Third Quarter of 2006

out that while oil prices are rising, the oil companies are profiting a great deal (Noe, 2006). An article appearing on the ABC N...

Economic Profile : Airline Industry

of airline tickets affects the demand. Rubin and Joy (2005) reported that the demand elasticity for leisure travel is 2.4, which i...

/E and Book to Price Ratio Calculations

be seen in companies that are expected to show high growth in the future or those shares which are over priced, so despite the cha...

Alma Charcoal Burners Pricing

the costs per unit. The calculation needs to start by looking at the cost per unit, but for the post and packaging figures have be...

Pricing Strategy of British Gas

a need for a company to understand what the result on any price increase or decrease will on both the sales and the total revenue ...

GEICO Acquisition and Warren Buffett Case Study

there must be a separation of the roles of the CEO and board. In other words, agency theory says that management will not operate ...

VCR Market and Demand Price Elasticity

elasticity is greater than or equal to 1, the curve is considered to be elastic. If it is less than 1, the curve is said to be ine...

Biotechnology Company Genentech DNA

account take up revenue. For Genentech we get the following Gross profit 2002 2003 2004 Revenue (a) 2,719.3 3,300.3 4,621.2 Cost o...

AN EXAMINATION OF COMPETITIVE PRICING THROUGH QUASAR COMPUTERS

the kneejerk reaction of moving pricing in response to competition is a sure way to failure. Price wars, the authors note, benefit...

Risk Assessment Using Options Rather than Ratios?

speculation, as such it is allowing for this extra risk. Where lenders seek to gain security of loans in the form of shares this m...

Vanguard Pricing Decision

closest competitor. This indicates that there are some levels of differentiation which may be able to come on a premium due to the...

Using Elasticity to Set a Price

of a product then the demand will increase (Nellis and Parker, 2006). This is the pattern for most goods, but not all, as some goo...

Analysis of Harley-Davidson

then use that data to consider a marketing approach along with suitable objectives and a budget. 2. The External Environment 2.1...

TOOLS FOR RATE OF RETURN - APPLE INC.

rate of return. The main disadvantage to this type of measurement, however, is the outlier (such as the financial meltdown ...

The Caux Round Table Principle Of Ethics

for the Dallas-based airlines. As a direct result, not only are his passengers happy to fly his airline, but his "passionate, ded...

Wine and Civilization

This paper goes back to ancient times to examine wine as a commodity. There are two sources in the bibliography of this three page...

Kraft Annual Accounts - Hedging

price, or having paid for an option contract that they will not use. Kraft notes that they do not hedge against all commodity pric...

Exchange Process, Money, Commodities, and Karl Marx

In six pages this paper considers the first two chapters of Karl Marx's economic text in a discussion of commodity concepts and la...