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KINKED-DEMAND CURVE ANALYSIS: An analysis that seeks to explain rigid oligopolistic prices using the kinked-demand curve. The kinked demand curve contains two distinct segments, one for higher prices that is more elastic and one for lower prices that is less elastic. The corresponding marginal revenue curve contains a vertical segment at the existing or initial quantity. Because a profit-maximizing oligopolistic firm equates marginal cost to marginal revenue, marginal cost also can take on a range of values at the existing quantity. In other words, marginal cost can increase or decrease without inducing a profit-maximizing oligopolistic firm to change price or quantity.
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ECONOMIC COST An alternative term for opportunity cost, which is the highest valued alternative foregone in the pursuit of an activity. Opportunity cost, or economic cost, is one of the most fundamental concepts used in the study of economics, hence the reason it is also termed economic cost. Economic, or opportunity cost is also commonly termed just cost.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time lost in your local discount super center wanting to buy either a pair of designer sunglasses or looseleaf notebook paper. Be on the lookout for slow moving vehicles with darkened windows.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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Cost, Insurance, Freight, Commission and Interest
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