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Bus G202 exam 1 part 3
Topic 3
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Business
Undergraduate 2
09/29/2011

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Term
Economic Profit
Definition
Revenue - Explicit Cost - Implicit Cost
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Implicit Cost
Definition
involve the firm's resources, but do not have a monetary payment. Example: opportunity cost of running the business. They are also known as the normal rate of return
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Explicit Cost
Definition
When a monetary payment is made.
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Normal Rate of Return
Definition
What firms could get by investing in businesses with similar risk.
Term
Entrepreneurs
Definition
A person who tries to exploit opportunities that exist within a market.
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What Entrepreneurs do?
Definition
Offer new product or open new market.
Create a lower cost technology
Find new resources
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Intrepreneur
Definition
an entrepreneurial individual that is employed by a firm
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Why do companies need intrepreneur?
Definition
Needed to keep ahead of rivals
Needed to improve overall efficiency
Keep the brightest mind in the corporation.
Incentive to incorprorate more profitable projects
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Economic Freedom
Definition
highest with low taxes, low regulations, secure property, and consistent legal structure
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What is the link between Economic freedom and Economic growth
Definition
Economic freedom creates an environment that is conducive for entrepreneurship.
Then entrepreneurial change leads to growth.
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Creative Destruction
Definition
New industries, technologies, and products make older industries become obsolete.
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What does creative destruction do to market?
Definition
Clears out less efficient technologies and industries.
Dying industries free resources up for new more efficient industries.
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What can impede Creative Destruction
Definition
The government can impede it by enacting policies to protect dying industries.
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Conflict of Interest
Definition
When a professional individual has a private interest, sufficient enough to influence the pursuit of their official duties.
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Types of Conflicts of Interest
Definition
Self-Dealing
Influence Peddling
Accepting Benefits
Misuse of Employer's property
Outside Employment or Moonlighting
Post-Employment
Term
Self-Dealing
Definition
Use your position to secure benefits
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Influence Peddling
Definition
Use your position to secure benefits for a third party
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Accepting Benefits
Definition
Receiving bribes or non-monetary gifts
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Misuse of Employer's Property
Definition
Personally gaining from employers property without consent
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Outside Employment or Moonlighting
Definition
Holding multiple employment positions at one time, which biases profession behavior
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Post-Employment
Definition
Holding a sequence of employment positions where you carry a bias from one job to the next
Term
Two Types of Corruption
Definition
Petty
Grand
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Petty Corruption
Definition
decisions made by low level bureaucrats, often centered on local / regional regulations, licenses, or discretionary spending
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Corruption
Definition
the abuse of entrusted power for private gain
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Grand Corruption
Definition
decisions made by high-level politicians. Often centered on nation policy formation, infrastructure decisions, military equipment procurement, or allocation of subsidies.
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Perceptions of corruption
Definition
Sand
Oil
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Sand Perception
Definition
1. Reduced Gdp Growth
2. Reduced Foreign Direct Investment
3. Increased In come inequality
4. Misallocation of government property
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Oil Perception
Definition
corruption helps to speed up commerce in an environment controlled by heavy bureaucracy and excessive regulations
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