Ariel will be opening a boutique and she wants people to know her clothing
store is coming to the area. which form of promotion would be most effective
for her to use?
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a. advertising
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b. merchandising
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c. personal selling
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d. public relations

Suppose that fixed costs for a firm in the automobile industry (start-up costs of factories, capital equipment, and so on) are $5 billion and that variable costs are equal to $17,000 per finished automobile. because more firms increase competition in the market, the market price falls as more firms enter an automobile market, or specifically, , where n represents the number of firms in a market. assume that the initial size of the u. s. and the european automobile markets are 300 million and 533 million people, respectively. a. calculate the equilibrium number of firms in the u. s. and european automobile markets without trade. b. what is the equilibrium price of automobiles in the united states and europe if the automobile industry is closed to foreign trade? c. now suppose that the united states decides on free trade in automobiles with europe. the trade agreement with the europeans adds 533 million consumers to the automobile market, in addition to the 300 million in the united states. how many automobile firms will there be in the united states and europe combined? what will be the new equilibrium price of automobiles? d. why are prices in the united states different in (c) and (b)? are consumers better off with free trade? in what ways?

In a hypothetical economy, a market basket consists of one laptop and two dvd players. in the base year, 2010, the price of a dvd player was $200, and the price of a laptop was $500. in 2015, the price of a dvd player was $380, and the price of a laptop was $750. the cpi for 2010 was

Agency costs do not involve costs that are incurred from managers pursuing their own interests at the expense of shareholder value and do not involve costs that are incurred by shareholders to make sure that managers pursue shareholder value.