The Board is aware of your decision to deter new entry and wants to know exactly how you plan to do so. You decide there are two options. One is a price limiting strategy. A lower price will cut margin from the competitors while still gaining considerable profits for Charles Schwab. The next is to make an expensive show using a strategic commitment to bully the new entrants away from investing in the industry. You have a limited budget for this strategic move. Which option should you recommend?

The typical consumer's food basket in the base year 2015 is as follows: 30 chickens at $4 each 10 hams at $5 each 10 steaks at $8 each a chicken feed shortage causes the price of chickens to rise to $5.00 each in the year 2016. hams rise to $7.00 each, and the price of steaks is unchanged. a. calculate the change in the "cost-of-eating" index between 2015 and 2016. year cost of the basket 2015 $ 2016 $ instructions: enter your responses rounded to one decimal place. the official cost-of-eating index has by %. b. suppose that consumers are completely indifferent between two chickens and one ham. for this example, how large is the substitution bias in the official "cost-of-eating" index? the in the cost-of-eating index is %. the of inflation in the cost of eating reflects substitution bias.

Advertisers are usually very conscious of their audience. choose an issue of a popular magazine such as time, sports illustrated, vanity fair, rolling stone, or the like. from that issue select three advertisements to analyze. try to determine the audience being appealed to in each advertisement and analyze the appeals used to persuade buyers. how might the appeals differ is the ads were designed to persuade a different audience.

How much of your paycheck do you have immediate access to once you deposit it into your bank account a. all of it b. a portion of it c. none of it