Globalization has become a hot-debated issue in the last ten to twenty years. Globalization is affecting the world from different perspectives, such as political perspective, economic perspective, and cultural perspective. Currently, whether globalization can bring more positive effects or negative effects to the modern world is still open to debate. Different scholars around the world hold distinctive views regarding the definition of globalization, but in this article, the following two definitions are used. Globalization refers to the creation and intensification of global linkages. In addition, globalization also refers to the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole. One of the main ideas of globalization is to break the barriers between countries. Everyone can receive information about different events happening in the world instantly. In the era of globalization, breaking barriers between countries is inevitable. Trading, foreign investments, population movements, these activities across Continue reading
Economics Concepts
Economic Tools for Management Decision Making
Managerial decision-making draws on economic concepts as well as tools and techniques of analysis provided by decision sciences. The major categories of these tools and techniques are optimization, statistical estimation and forecasting. Most of these methodologies are technical. These methods are briefly explained below to illustrate how tools of decision sciences are used in managerial decision making. 1. Optimization Optimization techniques are probably the most crucial to managerial decision making. Given that alternative courses of action are available, the manager attempts to produce the most optimal decision, consistent with stated managerial objectives. Thus, an optimization problem can be stated as maximizing an objective (called the objective function by mathematicians) subject to specified constraints. In determining the output level consistent with the maximum profit, the firm maximizes profits, constrained by cost and capacity considerations. While a manager does not resolve the optimization problem, he or she may make use of the Continue reading
Dornbusch Exchange Rate Overshooting Model
The Dornbusch overshooting model, developed by Rudiger Dornbusch in 1976, is a theoretical framework used to explain the dynamics of exchange rates. It suggests that when there is a change in monetary policy or other economic factors, exchange rates overshoot their long-run capital flows before settling back to their equilibrium levels. The model helps explain the short-term volatility of exchange rates, which can have significant implications for international trade, investment, and capital flows. Assumptions of the Model: The Dornbusch overshooting model is based on several key assumptions. First, it assumes that prices and wages are sticky in the short run, meaning that they do not adjust immediately to changes in economic conditions. This is because many contracts, such as labor contracts and long-term supply contracts, are negotiated in advance and do not reflect current market conditions. As a result, changes in the money supply or other economic factors can lead Continue reading
Marginal Cost Pricing
In case of Marginal Cost Pricing we have to consider the incremental cost of production. Fixed cost is not taken into consideration. Marginal cost is the additional cost for producing additional unit of output. In this method the price is related to marginal cost. The main difference between Full Cost Pricing and Marginal Cost Pricing is that in Marginal Cost Pricing the fixed cost component is not included. The Marginal Cost Pricing is useful in the short period whereas Full Cost Pricing is mainly for the long period. As long as the marginal cost is covered there is a sort of guarantee that the firm will not shut down. Advantages of Marginal Cost Pricing Variable cost remains constant per unit of output and fixed costs remain constant in total during short period. Thus control over costs becomes more effective and easier. Standards can be set for variable costs, while Budgets Continue reading
Basic Economic Tools in Managerial Economics for Decision Making
Business decision making is essentially a process of selecting the best out of alternative opportunities open to the firm. The steps below put managers analytical ability to test and determine the appropriateness and validity of decisions in the modern business world. Following are the various steps in decision making process: Establish objectives Specify the decision problem Identify the alternatives Evaluate alternatives Select the best alternatives Implement the decision Monitor the performance Modern business conditions are changing so fast and becoming so competitive and complex that personal business sense, intuition and experience alone are not sufficient to make appropriate business decisions. It is in this area of decision making that economic theories and tools of economic analysis contribute a great deal. Basic Economic Tools in Managerial Economics for Decision Making Economic theory offers a variety of concepts and analytical tools which can be of considerable assistance to the managers in his Continue reading
Demand Curve under Different Market Structures
Firm Demand (company demand) denotes the demand for the product/s of a particular firm. While Industry demand means the demand for the product of a particular industry. An industry comprises all the firms or companies producing similar products which are quite close substitutes to each other irrespective of the differences in their brand names. To understand the relation between company and industry demand necessitates an understanding of different market structures. The demand curve of an individual firm is not the same as the industry or market demand curve except in case of monopoly. Monopoly is that market category in which there is only a single seller and therefore there is no difference between a firm and an industry. The firm is itself an industry and therefore the demand curve of the individual firm as well as the industry demand curve under monopoly will be the same and as we shall Continue reading