SBS BWE Assignment-AUH PDF
SBS BWE Assignment-AUH PDF
SBS BWE Assignment-AUH PDF
BBA-ACC
Assignment – AUH-2020
STUDENT ID
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Plagiarism occurs whenever you do any of the following things without acknowledging
the original source:
Copy information from any source (including the study guide, books, newspapers, the
internet)
Use another person's concepts or ideas
Summarise or paraphrase another person's work.
Please note: claiming that you were not aware of need to reference is no excuse.
PART A
1. A market failure occurs when the supply of a good or service is insufficient to meet
demand. This results in an inefficient distribution of resources among market
participants. Hence government need to intervene to bring efficiencies.
Explain any four tools available for government interventions to deal with the market
failures with suitable examples.
3. Explain graphically, at what point the firm should stop hiring worker in a perfect
competitive market form. Also, list down some of the characteristics of the market form.
4. What is cost and explain the different types of costs with examples.
5. Define ‘Demand’ and ‘Supply’. Explain what the determinants are of demand and supply.
PART B
1. a. Discuss briefly the supply schedule and the various factors affecting the supply in the
market.
b. Assume the demand being perfectly inelastic and supply suddenly doubles due to
innovative technique of production. Explain the changes in the equilibrium price, and
quantity, and also is it advisable to do so from supplier point of view.
2. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is the UAE’s independent industry
regulator. Since its launch in 1976, Etisalat has held a monopoly in the market. That
changed in 2006 with the emergence of du, which was awarded a 20-year concession to
operate fixed-line, wireless, internet and international telecoms services. UAE-based
telecom operator recently announced that it was launching Virgin Mobile as a new telecom
brand within the country. Assuming the trend continues, and the government opens the
market for more private and foreign players. You are required to:
a. Apply your understanding and concepts from microeconomics, to investigate and
summarize the major characteristics of the emerging market form in the telecom industry.
b. Describe and analyze the pricing policies that you would expect to find in this industry.
c. Explain the profit maximization strategy of this market form.