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3 years ago

Explain why purely competitive markets tend to benefit consumers over producers.

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marissa [1.9K]3 years ago

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As competitive markets are driven by quantity of product sales and vendors tend to lower prices to ensure sales.

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Price-earnings ratio is 32.54

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Explanation:

1 ) What are dividends per share?

Dividends per share = cash dividends/ number of shares = $183,000/ 110,000 = $1.66

2) What is the book value per share?

Book value per share = total equity/ number of shares = $4,880,000 / 110,000 = $44.36

3) If the stock currently sells for $63 per share, what is the market-to-book ratio?

Market-to-book ratio = $63/ $44.36 = 1.42

4) What is the price-earnings ratio?

The price of Makers Corp. = market price * number of shares = $63* 110,000 = $6,930,000

Price-earnings ratio = $693,000/ $213,000 = 32.54

5) If the company had sales of $3.52 million, what is the price-sales ratio?

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Suppose that France and Austria both produce rye and wine. France's opportunity cost of producing a bottle of wine is 4 bushels

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Answer:

France has comparative advantage in production of wine

Austria has comparative advantage in production of rye.

4 bushels of rye for each bottle of wine

1 bottle of wine for each bushel.

b. 4 bushel of rye per bottle of wine.

Explanation:

France has comparative advantage in producing wine as it has opportunity cost of 4 bushels per bottle of wine. Austria has comparative advantage in producing bushels as it has opportunity cost of 10 bushels per bottle of wine. The both countries can gain advantage if they agree for 4 bushels per wine.

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