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VERTICAL MERGER: The consolidation under a single ownership of two separately-owned businesses that have an input-output relationship, in which the output of one firm is the input of another. An example of a vertical merger would be a soft drink company merging with a sugar company to form a single firm. A vertical merger should be contrasted with horizontal merger--two competing firms in the same industry that sell the same products; and conglomerate merger--two firms in totally, completely separate industries.
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Lesson 15: Aggregate Market | Unit 2: Equilibrium
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The macroeconomy contains three interrelated aggregate markets--product markets, resource markets, and financial markets. In general, a market is in equilibrium when buyers and sellers come upon a price that generates the same quantity demanded and quantity supplied. Two macroeconomic notions of equilibrium: - Long-run equilibrium: All three aggregate markets achieve equilibrium simultaneously.
- Short-run equilibrium: Price and wage rigidity prevent equilibrium in the resource markets, even though the aggregate product and financial markets are in equilibrium.
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NORMAL GOOD A good for which a change in income causes a comparable change in demand. That is, an increase in income causes an increase in demand and a decrease in income causes a decrease in demand. The income elasticity of demand for a normal good is positive. A normal good is one of two alternatives falling within the buyers' income demand determinant. The other is an inferior good.
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Helping spur the U.S. industrial revolution, Thomas Edison patented nearly 1300 inventions, 300 of which came out of his Menlo Park "invention factory" during a four-year period.
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"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. " -- Steve Jobs, Apple Computer founder
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VIR Variable Interest Rate
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