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S&P 500: The abbreviation for the Standard & Poor's 500, an index of the prices of 500 corporate stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It includes an assortment of stocks for industrial, transportation, and utility companies. It also includes a larger number of stocks than the comparable Dow Jones composite index, which means it's often considered a better measure of the overall performance of the stock market. Less commonly publicized are separate Standard & Poor's indexes for industrial, transportation, utility, and financial stocks.
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Lesson 19: Monopolistic Competition | Unit 4: Analysis
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- Attracting customers is the firm's prime reason for advertising:
- Advertising is information provided by a company about its product or operation, usually through media such as television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet, to promote or maintain sales, revenue, and/or profit.
- Advertising is generally used by monopolistic competition to accomplish two related goals -- product differentiation and market control.
- From a more graphical standpoint, advertising seeks:
- To Increase Demand
- To Reduce Demand Elasticity
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AVERAGE FACTOR COST Total factor cost per unit of factor input employed by a firm in the production of output, found by dividing total factor cost by the quantity of factor input. Average factor cost, abbreviated AFC, is generally equal to the factor price. However, using the longer term average factor cost makes it easier to see the connection to related terms, including total factor cost and marginal factor cost.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time strolling around a discount warehouse buying club wanting to buy either super soft, super cuddly, stuffed animals or a large stuffed brown and white teddy bear. Be on the lookout for pencil sharpeners with an attitude. Your Complete Scope
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Potato chips were invented in 1853 by a irritated chef repeatedly seeking to appease the hard to please Cornelius Vanderbilt who demanded french fried potatoes that were thinner and crisper than normal.
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -- Mark Twain
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LSE London Stock Exchange
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