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What the American Government can do to Lower Gas Prices

Thus far, there have been attempts to deal with this problem such as recommendations to get rid of gas taxes temporarily in an eff...

How And Why Pricing Affects Access

conditions may worsen and require treatment which will be more costly for the state or healthcare provider. This is unlikely to ha...

The Ethics of Pricing and Access to Health Care: A Social Justice Issue

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...

Progress Comes at a Price: American Civil War

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

Establishing a Price for MRI Use

the area of the country. Medicare pays $650 toward the price of an MRI scan in Sans Roentgens area. The machine cost figure to b...

Article Analysis: Bioethics of Pharmaceutical Pricing.

made available to commercial users, the practiced would "help to reinvigorate the American economy" (Schofield and Rothstein, 2004...

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND PERSONAL IMPACT

those things that people need, but its not something that is a constant "must buy" scenario. But theres been an increase in the ap...

Pricing Parking - Case Study

decks have led to a $100,000 deficit. Even in the most crowded months in the year, the new parking decks are only about half-full....

URBAN OUTFITTERS - PRICING, SALES AND CULTURE ANALYSIS

to customers that Alexandra Biesada (2008) dubs as "metropolitan hipsters." In other words, younger people, typically unmarried, h...

THE ECONOMICS OF ENERGY: FLUCTUATING GAS PRICES

increases in crude oil, rather than the law of supply and demand (Andrews, 2007). Economists point out that gasoline deman...

ARTICLE REVIEW - CONSUMER BEHAVIOR AND PRICING

regardless of price (Thilmany et al, 2008). The authors are onto something here that is quite right - price is not...

SEGWAY, PRICING AND MARKETING

2006). However, at $5,000 the Segway is not a cheap product. Its out of reach of all but the upper middle class to wealthy populat...

PRICE DISCRIMINATION AND THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY

2007). After analyzing the costs and markets, the authors came to the conclusion that there was more of a monopoly effect in the a...

TAXATION AND PRICE CONTROLS ON THE ECONOMY

However, in additional studies Stehr performed, he found that in other situations, women were more tax-sensitive to cigarettes, an...

McDonald's Pricing

of McDonalds and 20) Analyze the pricing strategies and tactics followed by McDonalds Formerly the undisputed leader in the...

Issues Concerning Price Elasticity

and supply side economics. The way in which supply and demand meet can be seen as the determinants of price and the equilibrium th...

Avril Hotel Pricing Strategy Case Study

(this means the percentage change in the number bought if these are from historical figures), which is then divided by the bottom ...

STARBUCKS AND COST ELEMENT OF PRICING DECISION

there is any outstanding debt, the interest on that would also be a fixed expense. The variable costs, on the other hand,...

IMPACT OF OIL PRICES ON THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

One of the culprits of all of this change involved spiking oil prices, which led to an increase in gas prices at the pump. This, i...

DYNAMIC PRICING AND AIRLINES

a date of expiration for the seats (once the airline flies, if a seat is empty, it stays empty). Furthermore, capacity is fixed in...

Wal-Mart and Low Prices

The article discusses a little more regarding the profit numbers, and then illustrates that the year of 2008 was a year where cons...

Knowledge Management, Topps Tiles and the Price of Wheat

This 22 page paper is written in 3 parts. The main part of the paper discusses the concept of knowledge management, looking at wha...

HIGHWAY CAPACITY AND PRICE DEMAND ELASTICITY

of reality. A decrease in the price of elasticity of demand means that more drivers are going to want to clog...

International Trade Increases and Oil Price Impacts

and as such this theory was built upon and developed by theorists such as Ricardo, which helps to explain, to a greater extent, wh...

The Rising and Lowering of Gas Prices

was the largest quarterly profit ever for a U.S. company" (Noe, 2006). Mann (2006) writes: " Despite an 11 percent fall in Florida...

Price of Change/Global Warming

automobile since its invention. However, not only is gasoline a non-renewable resource, but it now appears that it has a potential...

Pricing Strategy for Alma Products Inc.

higher price. However, this may also be difficult, as higher priced products will take longer to establish market share, this is a...

Hopkins V. Price Waterhouse

absolve the firm of any culpability served to secure Hopkins victory. The United States Supreme Court heard the appeal and subseq...

Assessing a Potential Price for an Equities Future Contract

market price is $42.03 at the close of business on the 8th November 2006 (Yahoo Finance, 2006). This would mean a price of $420.30...

Pricing of Books

cost for each book. If we look at the way in which the costs are attributed to it is possible that the profit margin could be re...