Across
- 2. The quantity of goods that suppliers are willing to sell at any given price over a period of time.
- 6. Said of at least one factor of production on the short run.
- 8. Desire for the consumption of goods and services.
- 9. A scheme whereby an organisation buys and sells in the open market so as to maintain a price considered as beneficial for both suppliers and consumers.
- 12. Any convenient set or arrangement by which is buyers and sellers communicate to exchange goods and services.
- 13. The cost of benefit to a third party.
- 14. Reason why the SRAC first decreases.
- 16. The first reason to merge/takeover.
- 17. Where resources are inefficiently allocated due to imperfections in the working of market mechanism.
- 18. Measure of the risks by a bank when lending money to an individual or a firm.
- 20. of scale At any level of output the costs for an individual firm will shift upward due to an increase in taxation, a decrease in subsidies or increase in the price of the factors of production in the market.
- 27. The R from MMMPR.
- 28. First objective of a firm.
- 29. In a free market this leads to innovation and efficiency.
- 30. The difference between how much buyers are prepared to pay for a good and what they actually pay.
- 33. The measure of the responsiveness of a variable due to a change in price.
- 34. Measure of how well resources are used to produce an end result.
- 36. When two companies agree to join together.
Down
- 1. A good which can be replaced by another to satisfy a want.
- 3. Money given by the government to a firm in order to decrease its costs of production.
- 4. A statement which cannot be supported because it is a value of judgement.
- 5. Exists when production takes place at the lowest cost.
- 7. A good which is purchased with other goods to satisfy a want.
- 10. When a good is demanded for two or more distinct use. For instance milk can be used to make yogurt or cheese.
- 11. Name of the company who took over Volvo in 2010.
- 15. The assumption that all other variables within the model remain constant whilst one change is being considered.
- 19. When one firm buys another.
- 20. As output rises; LRAC will decrease.
- 21. The minimum which is necessary for a person to survive as human beings.
- 22. Acquired IBM in 2005.
- 23. When two firms in different industries merge together. For example Philip Morris and Kraft.
- 24. The benefit foregone of the next best alternative.
- 25. Said of a good where demand falls when income increases, for example bus tickets.
- 26. One of the key elements of division of labour.
- 30. Always vital but sometimes complicated with people living on the other side of the world.
- 31. Group of people which have an interest in a firm.
- 32. Linked to production of one extra unit.
- 35. UK Company bought by Kraft in 2010.
