To maintain a monopoly, there must be barriers to entry. barriers to entry include of resources without close substitutes; of scale; legally required licenses, franchises, and certificates of convenience; patents; tariffs; and safety and quality regulations.
ownership; economies ( true or false )

Four analysts cover the stock of fluorine chemical. one forecasts a 6% return for the coming year. the second expects the return to be negative 6%. the third predicts a return of 8%. the fourth expects a 2% return in the coming year. you are relatively confident that the return will be positive but not large, so you arbitrarily assign probabilities of being correct of 35 % comma 8 %, 17 %, and 40%, respectively, to the analysts' forecasts. given these probabilities, what is fluorine chemicals expected return for the coming year

Which of the following is not a characteristic of enterprise applications that cause challenges in implementation? a. they introduce "switching costs," making the firm dependent on the vendor. b. they cause integration difficulties as every vendor uses different data and processes. c. they are complex and time consuming to implement. d. they support "best practices" for each business process and function. e. they require sweeping changes to business processes to work with the software.

Suppose a country's productivity last year was 84. if this country's productivity growth rate of 5 percent is to be maintained, this means that this year's productivity will have to be: