If you have been asked to prepare for the conference, allow plenty of time to finish the job before the Conference begins. If you have not requested to prepare, check with the organizers to make sure nothing is expected of you in advance. Sometimes need to ask someone to speak about topics that they have not been asked to prepare. Courtesy declare that you are informing the others who were present that the person who is speaking without preparation.

Even if you’re expecting guests to prepare this conference, simply bring a copy of the agendas and handouts for each person in attendance, along with a note from the previous Conference, if applicable.

Arrangement

Select the appropriate conference location with the opportunity – the right size, convenient location, the appropriate technological capabilities, proper ventilation, a place to hang jackets, etc. Then, make sure the room is equipped with proper facilities and equipment for making the guests comfortable and Conference effective. Tables and chairs. There must be enough space for everybody to sit down and spread over a conference table. This is to show courtesy and respect to not make the guests bring their own chairs for a conference. For large conferences, it may be necessary to arrange with a professional facility to provide enough seats. Investigate the lead times for such services as soon as you know you will be organizing a conference.

Atmosphere

If the room is cool at the beginning of the conference, it will warm to a comfortable temperature as revealed Conference. Check the lighting, including dimmer switches. Practice dims the lights and closes the window for audiovisual presentations. For a larger conference, make sure the speaker well lit and visible from the back of the room.

Accommodation

Make sure all guests are fully able to participate: the room is accessible by wheelchair, interpreter present, and other disabilities are accommodated.

Note taking

One person should be responsible for maintaining official records of the meeting. Indicates that the person in advance. Can request a formal meeting notes recording. Use a video-efficient, for example at conferences and meetings of shareholders. Video makes a period of more formal meetings and may prevent participation.

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Corporate tax is the highest tax in the world. Some countries have high taxes corporate. For example is New Zealand, Spain, and Australia, they all have a corporate taxes average of 30%. In 1986, the corporate tax rate in New Zealand is 48% and two years later (1988) reduced to 28%. A year later (1989) was raised again to 33%. This tax rate lasted for nine years. In the Prime Minister John Key, precisely in 2008, the corporate taxes return to 30%. In 2008, Spain has a corporate tax rate same as New Zealand, which is 30%. The highest corporate tax rate is in 2006, which is 35%.

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A dominant firm can employ a number of tactics to discourage entry or expansion by rivals and to preserve its market position while continuing to exercise market power. In markets where such strategies are used, policymakers will have to cope with the prospect of long – term exercise of market power by dominant firms.

Before World War II, the aluminum company of America Alcoa was the only domestic U.S. producer of aluminum ingot from ore. It faced some competition from recyclers who produced aluminum ingot from scrap aluminum. Alcoa owed its dominant position to licenses that allowed it to use a low – cost production technique under patent protection, bit it maintained its position after the basic patent expired in 1909. In a suit alleging monopolization of the aluminum ingot market the government accused Alcoa of purchasing bauxite deposits beyond its own needs to deny potential competitors access to material necessary for the production of aluminum ingot. The government also alleged that Alcoa had signed contracts with public utilities designed to prevent competitors from purchasing low – cost electric power production of aluminum ingot requires a great deal of electric power. In the view of the courts the government did not succeed in proving that Alcoa had acted to preserve its monopoly.

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Toward the end of the nineteenth century, cartels were unsuccessful in controlling frequent price wars and intense rivalry in the U.S. steel industry. This induced s series of mergers that concentrated steel sales in the hands of a few large firms. The culmination of this movement came in 1901, when U.S. steel was formed by the merger of a dozen companies. Each of these companies was itself the survivor of previously independent firms. U.S. steel combined the as sets of some 180 previously independent firms. At the time of its formation, U.S. steel controlled roughly 65 per cent of the nation’s steel capacity. The merger prompted one of the early landmark antitrust cases under the Sherman act, a case which we will later discuss.

As shown in Figure 4 – 4, U.S. steel’s market share has declined throughout the twentieth century. In particular, new technology now enables steel “minimills” to compete on a cost – effective basis with large integrated firms. It seems likely that entry into the steel industry is substantially easier today than it was at the turn of the century. But the gradual decline in market share depicted in Figure 4 – 4 is just what the dynamic limit price: a high price set to gain short run profits, with a gradual loss a market share to rivals.

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One assumption of the static limit price model is that the potential entrant/ fringe firm expects the dominant firm to maintain output in the face of entry. We used this assumption to draw a residual demand curve for the potential entrant Figure 4 – 1. The entrant may very well expect different behavior from the dominant firm. It may expect the dominant firm to expand its output and lower its price in the face of entry in order to preserve market share this was AMXCO’s reaction to entry by Vebco, in the first case study. If the entrant expects the dominants firm to expand curve closer to the origin than suggested by Figure 4 – 1. All else equal, a smaller residual demand will make entry less likely.

In other circumstances, the entrant may expect the dominant firm to restrict output after entry and cooperate to maintain a high price and profit this is not a bad description of Saudi Arabia’s behavior in the first few years of OPEC control of world oil market. Then the entrant will figure on a residual demand curve further away from the origin than figure 4 – 1 suggests. All else equal, a greater residual demand will make entry more likely. The general point is that weather or not an entrant will come into a market, and weather or not a fringe firm will try to expand, will depend as much on how it expects a dominant firm to react as on how much it sees a dominant firm producing. This is an important factor in the analysis of oligopoly, and we will return to it in chapter 5.

If there are several potential entrants or fringe firms, each will have to consider the likely actions and reactions of all of the others, not just those of the dominant firm. Potential entrants may hesitate to come in if they think they will have to share the residual demand curve with other potential entrants.

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At the other extreme, if there are no entry costs at all, the market is constable. If average cost is the sane for the entrant and the dominant firm, the dominant firm will be unable to exercise any market power without losing the entire market to the entrant. The market will perform as a competitive industry, even though it is supplied by a single dominant firm.

Although perfectly contestable markets are no doubt rare, the theory of contestable markets serves to remind us of one thing: having a monopoly or a large market share is no guarantee of having monopoly power – the power to hold price above marginal cost. A large firm can only get away with what its rivals will permit. As we will see, the same is trye in oligopoly.

How are these conclusions altered when we take a dynamic view of limit pricing? If entry takes time, a dominant firm will face a tradeoff between short – term loss of dominance. Formal models show that a dominant firm in such circumstances will set a high price and gradually lower it, as entry occurs, down to the average cost of fringe firms, at this point, entry will cease. The dominant firm will exercise some market power, but the degree of market power – the excess of price over marginal cost – will fall over time. If average cost is constant and is the same for the fringe and the dominant firm, the dominant firm will eventually lower price to marginal cost. It will not be able to exercise market power in the long run.

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The third factor that determines the dominant firm’s choice is the discount rate. When the discount rate is high, current income can be invested at relatively high rates of return. The opportunity cost of postponing current income for future income is high. If the discount rate is high enough, the dominant firm will prefer to take a greater profit in the short run and give up market share.

On the other hand, if the discount rate is low, the rate of return at which the extra short – run profit could be invested is small. The dominant firm will attach almost much importance to profit to be earned in the distant future as to current profit. If the discount rate is low enough, the dominant firm will prefer to take a lower profit in the short – run and hold on to market share.

Tradeoff

Of course, the dominant firm does not face an either –or decision. It can initially set a high price and then lower it toward the limit price. It would give up some market share to the fringe but maintain a dominant position over the long haul. The three factors just discussed – the profit to be gained in the short run, the rate of fringe expansion, and the discount rate – will determine how rapidly a dominant firm will bring the price down to the limit level. The case of OPEC from 1973 through 1985 which we will discuss in detail in chapter 5 seems to fit this scenario.

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The answer, of course, is, “it depends” as it is to almost all question in economics. In most of the classes that use this text book, however, you will not get much credit for that answer unless you are able to explain what market performance depends on. It is no that topic that we now turn.

First, consider the static limit price model. If entry is blockaded – if the dominant firm can charge the monopoly price and if it is still not profitable for new firms to come into the market – we are back to the basic monopoly model of chapter 2. The only limit on the exercise of market power is the price elasticity of demand: if the monopolist raises the market price, some consumers will go away.

If there are some entry costs but entry is not blockaded, two possibilities arise. If entry costs are sufficiently great, a dominant firm will be able to preclude entry with only a moderate expansion of output above the monopoly level and only a moderate reduction in price below the monopoly level. The dominant firm will exercise some market power, but not as much as a monopolist. It will charge the highest price it can, without inducing entry. This possibility of entry will improve market performance, but the dominant firm will continue to exercise some market power.

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Here we can draw on the conclusions of the static limit price model. If the market is the large and entry costs are small, the limit price will near marginal cost and the limit profit will be small. The smaller the per – period limit profit, the more likely it is that the dominant firm will achieve a greater present discounted value income stream by taking a larger short – run profit and giving up market share over the long run. If the market is large enough and entry costs are small enough, the dominant firm will prefer to take such short – run profits as it can get, even at the expense of market share. Dominant firms are most likely to take the money and run in large markets with easy entry.

Fringe Expansion Rate

In many cases, the maximum rate at which fringe firms can increase their output will depend on technology factors. The rate at which fringe firms do increase their output will be affected by the profit to be gained after entry, which is what motivates expanding firms. If the dominant firm sets a price far above the limit price it, it can expect entry to be more rapid than if it sets a price only slightly above a limit price.

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