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Exercise 1 Geographical pricing [included in 2nd edition of the book] "Purple Dream"has the monopoly on the production of purple light-emitting diodes (LEDs). It faces geographically separated markets, market 1 and 2. The demands are qA = 1 pA and qB = 1=2 pB, respectively. The transport and production costs are set to zero. 1. Assume that the Örm chooses to set a uniform price across the two markets. What is the proÖt maximizing uniform price? What are the quantities sold on the tw...

Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies Paul Belleáamme and Martin Peitz published by Cambridge University Press Part IV. Pricing strategies and market segmentation Exercises Exercise 1 Geographical pricing [included in 2nd edition of the book] "Purple Dream"has the monopoly on the production of purple light-emitting diodes (LEDs). It faces geographically separated markets, market 1 and 2. The demands are qA = 1 pA and qB = 1=2 pB, respectively. The transport and production...

Consider the following version of the lemons problem. There is a continuum of buyers and sellers in the market; the total mass of each group is 1. Each seller has one car to sell and each buyer wishes to buy at most one car, but only sellers know the quality of their cars before trading. It is common knowledge however that the quality of cars, denoted s, is drawn from a uniform distribution on the interval [0; 1] (hence, the probability that a carís quality is below some number x is equal...

Exercise 1 Industries with cartels Brieáy describe and analyze a case of your choice concerning a price- or quantity-Öxing cartel (please not OPEC). The following questions may be useful to bear in mind: What are the relevant characteristics of the industry? What was the scope of the cartel? How was the cartel enforced? What were the e§ects of the cartels? How did the competition authority or court argue and what was the decision, if any? Exercise 2 Collusion and pricing Two (advertis...

Full summary of all articles, videos, lectures, and book chapters for the course Corporate Strategy and Growth (BMSM03) for the MSc Strategic Management at the Rotterdam School of Management. Includes: Bowman, C. and V. Ambrosini (2003). How the resource-based and dynamic capability views of the firm inform corporate-level strategy. British Journal of Management, 14 (4): 289-303.Collis, D.J. and C.A. Montgomery (1998). Creating corporate advantage. Harvard Business Review, 76 (3):70-83.Puranam,...

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY FINMAN 3E TEST BANK MODULE 14 FINANCIAL LITERACy Topic: Cost Behavior Pattern LO: 1 1. Mixed cost behavior pattern is unrelated to unit activity level. Answer: False Rationale: The variable portion of a mixed cost is related to the unit activity level, because this portion of the mixed cost will increase as activity level increases. The fixed portion of the mixed cost, however, does not vary with the activity level. Topic: Variable Costs LO: 1 2. The wheels on an a...

Includes a summary of the following articles: Locke, E.A. & Latham, G.P. (2002). Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation. American Psychologist, 57, 9, 705-717. DeNisi, A., & Kluger, A. (2000). Feedback effectiveness: Can 360-degree appraisals be improved? Academy of Management Executive, 14(1), 129-139. CIPD (2016). Could do better? Assessing what works in performance management. Research report. Katz, I. M., Rauvola, R. S., & Rudolph, C. W. (2021). F...