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Price theory is concerned with explaining economic activity in terms of the creation and transfer of value, which includes the trade of goods and services between difierent economic agents. A puzzling question addressed by price theory is, for example: why is water so cheap and diamonds
At its most basic, a price is the amount of money that a buyer gives to a seller in exchange for a good or a service. When someone hands over $2.00 and receives a pound of tomatoes, the price is straightforward observation: $2.00 a pound.
European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention. On the empirical regularities of Sraffa prices
chapter 1 - what is economics? pa rt i: - p r ic e s a n d m a r k e t s chapter 2 - the role of prices prices and costs supply, demand and “need” chapter 3 - price controls price ceilings and shortages price floors and surpluses the politics of price controls chapter 4 - an overview cause and effect incentives versus goals scarcity and ...
price theory--the analysis of why things cost what they do and of how prices function to coordinate economic activity. This book is organized into six sections.
1 Introduction. Consumer retail prices exhibit a systematic combination of stickiness and exibility. The stickiness of prices|that they can remain unchanged for many months despite changing cost or demand circumstances|has long been considered a stylized fact in industrial organization.
22 lis 2010 · PDF | We study the properties of a profit-maximizing monopolist's optimal price distribution when selling to a loss-averse consumer, where (following... | Find, read and cite all the research...