In what ways does a government regulate the marketplace?

The biweekly taxable wages for the employees of rite shop follow. compute the fica taxes for each employee and the employers fica taxes

Consider two cigarette companies, pm inc. and brown inc. if neither company advertises, the two companies split the market and earn $50 million each. if they both advertise, they again split the market, but profits are lower by $10 million since each company must bear the cost of advertising. yet if one company advertises while the other does not, the one that advertises attracts customers from the other. in this case, the company that advertises earns $60 million while the company that does not advertise earns only $30 million. if these two companies collude and agree upon the best joint strategy, a. neither company will advertise. b. both companies will advertise. c. pm inc. will advertise but brown inc. will not. d. brown inc. will advertise but pm inc. will not.

The city of imperial falls contracts with evergreen waste collection to provide solid waste collection to households and businesses. until recently, evergreen had an exclusive franchise to provide this service in imperial falls, which meant that other waste collection firms could not operate legally in the city. the price per pound of waste collected was regulated at 25 percent above the average total cost of collection. cost data for the most recent year of operations for evergreen are as follows: