Answer: False
Explanation:
Being able to determine the effect on price would have to be circumstantial
Answer:
Flashfone and Pictech
a. If Flashfone prices high, Pictech will make more profit if it chooses a (high,low) __low___ price, and if Flashfone prices low, Pictech will make more profit if it chooses a(high,low)___low____ price.
b. If Pictech prices high, Flashfone will make more profit if it chooses a(high,low)__low____price, and if Pictech prices low, Flashfone will make more profit if it chooses a (high,low) __low____ price.
c. Considering all of the information given, pricing high (is, is not) _is not_ a dominant strategy for both Flashfone and Pictech.
Explanation:
a) Data and Calculations:
Pictech Pricing
High Low
Flashfone Pricing High 11, 11 2, 18
Low 18, 2 10, 10
b) A dominant strategy exists if Pictech or Flashfone would implement a particular strategy that benefits it no matter what the other firm does.
Answer:
wheat, wheat
Explanation:
In the field of economics, absolute advantage may be defined as the ability of a producer to produce a particular goods or services at large amount or quantity at the same price or the same quantity at a very low price as compared to other producers. It means producing goods efficiently.
Whereas a comparative advantage of a product is defined as the ability of a producer to produce more goods and and consumes less of it at a lower opportunity cost when compared to its competitors.
Thus in the context, Country A has both an absolute advantage as well as comparative advantage in production of wheat.
Answer:
It will reduce the amount of dividiends it can pay.
Explanation:
As there is an amount of the retained earnings that is restricted the company cannot use them to pay up neither stock or cash dividends in the future.
The retained earnings are used to pay dividends but also, are part of the equity of the firm thus the RE count to the capital structure of the company . Loans can be obtained with better rates if thecapital structure is more based on equiy than in liabilities thus, the board of directors is planning ahead the future plant exansion avoiding to use cash and deteriorate his capital structure to pay up dividends.
