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HOSTILE TAKEOVER: In the world of mergers, the acquisition of one company by another against the wishes of the company being acquired. Also termed a hostile acquisition, this is accomplished by purchasing controlling interest in the stock of the acquired company, usually by offering to pay a price exceeding the current market price. A hostile takeover might be motivated to eliminate competition, to sell off the assets of the company for more that the takeover payment, or to temporarily inflate the price of the stock.
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Lesson 5: Market Demand | Unit 1: Buying Basics
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Second, quantity demanded. Quantity demanded is the specific quantity of a good that buyers would be willing and able to buy at a specific price. - Price and quantity demanded are a pair of numbers that go together.
Quantity demanded is not the same as demand.- Demand is the entire range of prices and quantities (all pairs of numbers).
- Quantity demanded is a specific quantity at a specific price (a quantity paired with a price).
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AVERAGE FIXED COST CURVE A curve that graphically represents the relation between average fixed cost incurred by a firm in the short-run product of a good or service and the quantity produced. This curve is constructed to capture the relation between average fixed cost and the level of output, holding other variables, like technology and resource prices, constant. The average fixed cost curve is one of three average curves. The other two are average total cost curve and average variable cost curve. A related curve is the marginal cost curve.
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