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What is the impact of technological advances on a market?

Technological advances now mean that firms are able to produce more. This then increases supply, shifting the supply curve on the supply and demand diagram outward (to the right). As a result of this, mar...

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Are taxes an effective way to stop people smoking?

When looking at how taxes impact the demand for any product, it is important to assess how elastic/inelastic consumers are towards price changes. Taxes are a price-changing instrument, and are predominant...

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Explain two ways in which central banks use monetary policy to influence the economy.

Monetary policy, the instruments by which central banks and adjust the value and supply of a currency, most notably take the forms of interest rate changes and credit expansions. Firstly, the lowering of ...

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Is profit maximisation the most important objective of firms?

Usually in traditional Economic theory we assume firms are profit maximising. In reality this may not be the case.Short run firms seek to maximise sales - e.g. Amazon to gain market share (m...

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Using knowledge of PED, when should a firm decrease the price of a good to maximise revenues?

A firm should only decrease the price of a good if the good is price elastic (PED>1). This is because in percent decrease in price will result in a greater percent increase in quantity demanded so reve...

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