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focus on the french smoking problem. Why is it a topic of public policy? Public policy refers to government decisions and actions intended to address perceived public problem. As smoking causes costs that have to be carried by the whole society and not just by the individual smoker such as growing costs for health insurances it must be regarded as a public problem. By raising taxes and/or passing laws to regulate smoking within the society the several governments try to solve this problem. Because

growing products. In fact, we can explain that by the attractiveness of this market for the firms, as P&G says: “Beauty is an attractive business with relatively high margins and low capital costs…” But the peculiar growth in male grooming is not only the result of high margins and low costs. It goes along with a sociocultural trend which is that hygiene is getting more and more importance on everyday’s life. Today, it is not unusual for a man to use such products, and that can also

predecessor. 2) Which global pricing strategy does Apple use for the Nano? Apple uses an extension pricing strategy since the price of an Ipod Nano is the same in the US than in France: for a 8GO one, it costs 149 Euros in France and 149 dollars in the US, and for a 16GO one, it costs 179 Euros/Dollars. The only factors that make the price change are external ones such as taxes in France or the currency fluctuations.

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lui aussi par des pratiques couramment anti-concurrentielles85. Bibliographie AFP ÉCONOMIQUE, 6 mars 2003: L'UE et 51 membres demandent la libéralisation des transports maritimes, (17:16 GMY ed.). AMJADI, A., & A. YEATS, 1995: "Have Transport Costs Contributed to the Relative Decline of Sub-Saharan African Exports", Policy Research Working Paper, 37 p.: The World Bank. ANDERSON, J. E., & E. VAN WINCOOP, 2001: "Gravity with Gravitas : A Solution to the Border Puzzle", NBER Working Paper, 36 p

(PCPS). which found that the number-three challenge for small CPA firms was "marketing/practice growth." Small businesses often lack interTial controls because the costs are perceived to outweigh the benefits. Yet these same organizations are often burdened by excessive regulatory costs-per-employee and higher-than-average fraud costs and occurrence of fraud, TTiese pressures on small business are listed in Exhibit I. Many will no doubt interpret this as more evidence of the regulatory burdens placed

logistics flow in reverse direction, that is, from the consumer to the source, in order to carry out activities of recycling, reparation, and recuperation. Ten reasons that companies should adopt GSC: target marketing, sustainability of resources, lowered costs/increased efficiency, product differentiation and competitive advantage, competitive and supply chain pressures, adapting to regulation and reducing risk, brand reputation, return on investment, employee morale, and the ethical imperative. 10

self-sufficiency-strategy, alliance-strategy and product-variety-strategy. In contrast to high entry barriers of Steel production industry, entry barriers into the mining business are for steel producers relatively low. Still there are the capital costs of developing the logistical infrastructure required to support an iron-ore-mining enterprise which can be very high. In consequence one of the supply-strategies POSCO is pursuing is self-sufficiency. “POSCO is actively investing in various raw materials

ANNEE ASSIGNEMENT 1 : La question portant sur l’analyse de l’avantage concurrentiel, nous attendons l’utilisation de la « Competitive Advantage Matrix » avec un résultat du type « maintain specialty » (High differentiation and high relative costs). Les critères pourraient se structurer, par exemple, selon le schéma suivant : • Products and brand recognition: fame, luxury positioning over time, differentiation (authenticity, know-how, craftsmanship, use of “cultural communication

(Crouch, 1994; Martin & Witt, 1987). For this study, real (inflation adjusted) GDP in Japan was used to measure consumer income. Price actually consists of three components: the cost of transportation; living costs at the destination; and exchange rates. In prior research, transportation costs and destination prices have been modeled separately (Morley, 1998; Stronge & Redman, 1982), as have exchange rates (Lee et al., 1996; Loeb, 1982; Walsh, 1996). While economic theory suggests that prices should