Explain the optimal strategy that a price discriminating firm would use when pricing in markets with different elasticities

What will be an ideal response?


The optimal strategy for a firm that can sell in more than one market is to charge higher prices in markets with low demand elasticities and vice versa.

Economics

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Open market sales ________ reserves and the monetary base thereby ________ the money supply

A) raise; lowering B) raise; raising C) lower; lowering D) lower; raising

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Assume a simplified banking system subject to a 20 percent required reserve ratio. If there is an initial increase in excess reserves of $100,000, the money supply:

A. increases $100,000. B. increases $500,000. C. increases $600,000. D. decreases $500,000.

Economics

Daily newspapers have been rising in price in recent years because:

A. wages in the newspaper industry have risen dramatically. B. the overhead costs have recently been spread over a shrinking number of buyers. C. capital has replaced virtually all labor used to produce a newspaper. D. long-standing government subsidies have been removed in most major cities.

Economics