Micro Economics Projects

Review the phone call charges rate

structure of BSNL and Tata Docomo

 Review the air-fare season wise of

AIR India , King Fisher

 Choose a branded cosmetic product,

collect
monthly
price-demand
(sales)/ Advertising expenditure
sales revenue data on the average
over a period of March 2009 to March
2010, and measure the point and arc
price and promotional elasticity of
demand.

 Collect information and prepare a

business market strategy case study
of a private Airline in India such as
Kingfisher, Jet, Indigo, etc.

 Collect information on advertising

expenses on new films released
recently by the Indian film producers
and also their collections . Give your
comments.

 Describe exactly the nature of

economic activity being undertaken
by the following:
1. Hindustan Lever Ltd.
2. Steel Authority of India Ltd
3. Educational Consultants of India Ltd
4. Apollo Hospital
5. Finance Ministry, Govt of India

 Think of Matrimonial Markets in India

with
reference
to
various
communities and give on economic
interpretation of the term Dowry,
identifying the market forces at work.

 Write a critical essay on Government

Monopoly in India.

 A consultancy firm has been floated

by a few experienced MBA graduates
with engineering background, as a
co-operative venture. The firm, while
setting up its business, is interested
to recruit fresh MBA graduates, MBA
(F). Determine a demand function for
MBA (F). Define and explain each
term.

 A housewife is to choose between buying

a new air-conditioner or repairing the old
air- conditioner, because the summer is
forthcoming. When she puts up the
proposal before her husband who is a
small factory owner, he reports that he is
facing the same problem of choice for
his office room inside the factory.
Use all relevant concepts of demand to
compare and contrast the home front
with the factory front.

 Pick up any companys balance sheet

to collect at least two consecutive
years data on sales revenue and
advertising expenditure. Calculate:
1. Sales elasticity of ad.
2. Ad. Elasticity of sales.
3. How are (1) and (2) related? Why
are the coefficients different? What
will be the business use of such
estimated coefficients?

 As an employee of the business

development
department
of
a
corporate unit, you are required to
identify the determinants of the
firms demand requirements for
1. Fixed capital
2. Working capital
You are also required to guess the
likely effects of your explanatory
variables.
Do your job to satisfy your boss.

 How would you explain

1. Under utilized capacity in a plant
or building.
2. Underemployment of labour in a
factory or Government office.
3. Over capacity utilization in BHEL or
NTPC
4. Emergence of idle capacity in an
automobile factory.
Give real world business examples
of each. Collect data.

 Visit a nearby (a) factory, (b)

hospital, (c) corporate office and (d)
educational institute. For each of the
above, collect information or data
concerning their costs. Re-classify all
those with appropriate name, into
two separate categories: Economic
Costs and Accounting Costs.

 Visit a construction site. Meet the

team of architect, engineer, labor
contractor or supervisor and the
labour leader. Prepare a detailed list
of construction project costs. Reclassify them as Economic Costs.

 Visit some markets. Collect the

names of firms which supply their
goods and / or services to these
markets. Identify the nature of the
firms and the industry they belong
to.

 A number of markets are developing

on the Internet. One of those market
is eBay. Check out eBay at
www.ebay.com and explain whether
you believe that the eBay Internet
auction
market
is
perfectly
competitive. Be sure explain which of
the six conditions are met and how.

 Go to the Internet site About.com (

www.about.com)
and
answer
the
following questions:
1. What services does about.com provide?
What does it charge for those services?
2. What the fixed costs associated with
running about.com? What is the
marginal cost of providing about.com to
one additional person?
3. List the advertising you saw while
visiting about.com

 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting

Countries (OPEC) is an international cartel. Go
to its home page at www.opec.org to answer
the following questions:
1. What are OPECs objectives? How does it
meet those objectives?
2. What countries are member of OPEC? What
percentage of world oil production come from
these nations? In what way is OPEC a cartel?
3. What significant oil-exporting countries are
not members? What has OPEC done to limit
the effect of non member production on its
pricing decisions?