Based on the book when there are competitive markets such as airlines, a company certainly needs to look at costs and revenue very closely. (Brickley, Smith, & Zimmerman, 2009, p. 180) In this case I believe that the flights from San Francisco t Washington DC should be discontinued. Even though United Airlines is a large company and profitable if they continue these flights in the long run they will lose money. The other option that they would have would be to increase the fares to cover those costs, but since the airline industry is a competitive market people are more likely to go with a lower cost airline. The first thing the airline must do is look at the firm supply.
Economic costs of inflation- Inflations economic costs would include damage to competitiveness as high inflation could cause spiralling price multiplier effect; as prices go up workers would demand higher wages so increasing business costs and another round of price rises to maintain business profits- making exports for expensive, thus reducing the demand for them causing a decrease and AD domestically. Additionally this may lead to unemployment as more costs to the firm i.e. menu costs. Change in inflation could also cause uncertainty to consumers/businesses to spend and invest as they don’t know what the future holds, this can decrease confidence in the market and potentially, in the longer term, cause and reduction in AD. Economic costs of deflation- deflation has proved to have several economic costs, the main cost is that it encourages differed expenditure where people’s expectations change and they delay spending in the hope of getting a better deal.
(Hayek, 2008) When wages go up so does the cost of the production, which increases the cost of the consumer goods, and inflation goes up. The only way to sustain this is to have a high money supply. This will cause interest rates to decrease, according to Hayek; if they decrease it can cause investments to be insecurely high, leading to an economic bust-which is how the business cycles work. If a centralized planner is created to watch the industries and when they start failing, a stimulus package will have to be made to support and pick it back up. If the necessary data to watch the
As stated in extract 1, it tells us that the goods we import are not made in the UK and so makes it impossible to replace the imports, therefore meaning that we still have to import goods, despite the high prices due to the low exchange rate of sterling. This is partnered with the fact that some suppliers (shown in extract 1) have agreed long term supply contract with cheaper overseas suppliers before the depreciation of the sterling and so they are now paying high prices. This may mean that these suppliers may have to increase the prices of these goods, therefore leading to cost push inflation due to trying to maintain a decent profit margin in the hope the demand for the good does not drop dramatically. However, it is stated that there still may be a large price differential with countries such as China and India, even after sterling's depreciation. On the other hand however, as stated in extract 1, line 8, volume of good imported has also increased by 16% and inflation has continued well above target.
In JetBlue case, the current economy situation creates high market entry barriers, which consists extremely high fixed cost and numerous capital requirement. Moreover, the potential and existing competitors affect the industry has a low profit margin, and it is difficult for new entrances to differentiate their products and services from competitors. The bargaining power of supplier is high. The key inputs for the airline industry are the fuel and aircrafts. Boeing and Airbus dominate the aircraft manufacturing industry.
This causes people to have to pay more for products. Stealing affects the economy because it causes the prices of products to rise. Stolen items are lost revenue. Businesses then have to raise the prices to recoup or make up for the loss of products that aren't available for sale, but have been purchased by the business for resale Who Pays the Price Retailers know when the economy plummets, shoplifting does the exact opposite. And when the holidays approach, they also have to brace themselves for the swell in retail theft.
Off-the-shelf software is cheaper than developing custom software. Conversely, due to Boeing’s massive scope and size, outsourcing certain elements would be inefficient. Outsourcing payroll or sales force management with 158,000 employees in 70 countries would be an extremely difficult, let alone expensive, task. Processes like payroll and sales force management often require much human interaction in order to work properly, so outsourcing these elements could create major roadblocks for employees and employers alike. On the other hand, why would Boeing develop in-house some of the software applications used in conjunction with its products?
International Trade ECO 372 University of Phoenix There are many contributing factors to the stabilization and prosperity of our global market. We, the United States, are living in a time of severe trade deficit, meaning that we are importing many more goods than we are exporting. While it is nice to be able to buy foreign products at a lower price, there is risk in doing so. When we purchase foreign goods over domestic at lower prices it forces our domestic companies to sell their goods at lower prices to remain competitive. These lower prices may lend to making enough profit to sustain the current workforce.
NASCAR has such a huge fan base you could market almost anything and find people that it would apply to but some companies target market might match better to who watches NASCAR. So out of NASCAR’s 75 million fans 60 percent of those are male and of course the other 40 percent is females. 32 percent are between the ages 18-34, 43 percent are 35-44, and the other 43 percent are 45 or older. 42 percent of NASCAR’s fan base makes 50,000 dollars or more every year, which happens to be more affluent than the US population. The complete income distribution is 29 percent make 30-50,000 dollars, 22 percent make 50-75,000 dollars, 12 percent make 75-100,000 dollars, and 8 percent make over 100,000 dollars every year.
1. From your understanding of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, explain how you feel it may negatively affect America’s stock exchanges. The higher than expected costs for many public companies caused some companies to abandon their public status. The costs of SOX compliance negatively affect companies, markets, investors, and economic growth. Fewer companies are willing to enter the market because of the SOX requirements that make going public too costly.