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  2. Market failure - Wikipedia

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    Different economists have different views about what events are the sources of market failure. Mainstream economic analysis widely accepts that a market failure (relative to Pareto efficiency) can occur for three main reasons: if the market is "monopolised" or a small group of businesses hold significant market power, if production of the good or service results in an externality (external ...

  3. Resource allocation - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the field of public finance deals with three broad areas: macroeconomic stabilization, the distribution of income and wealth, and the allocation of resources. . Much of the study of the allocation of resources is devoted to finding the conditions under which particular mechanisms of resource allocation lead to Pareto efficient outcomes, in which no party's situation can be ...

  4. Allocation (oil and gas) - Wikipedia

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    Back allocation to field or well Flow to consumption, power, flare: Fiscal measurement: N/A Flow to shared facility, from a satellite field: Custody transfer measurement (when ownership changes) Field allocation Flow from the reservoir: Allocation measurement: Back allocation to well or formation Flow from a gas well: E.g. with ultrasonic flow ...

  5. Managerial economics - Wikipedia

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    Is the study of the allocation of available resources by enterprises of other management units in the activities of that unit. Deal almost exclusively with those business situations that can be quantified and handled, or at least quantitatively approximated, in a model. [3] The two main purposes of managerial economics are:

  6. Economic efficiency - Wikipedia

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    There are also other definitions and measures. All characterizations of economic efficiency are encompassed by the more general engineering concept that a system is efficient or optimal when it maximizes desired outputs (such as utility ) given available inputs.

  7. Strategic planning - Wikipedia

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    Simply extending financial statement projections into the future without consideration of the competitive environment is a form of financial planning or budgeting, not strategic planning. In business, the term "financial plan" is often used to describe the expected financial performance of an organization for future periods.

  8. Economic planning - Wikipedia

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    Economic planning is a resource allocation mechanism based on a computational procedure for solving a constrained maximization problem with an iterative process for obtaining its solution. Planning is a mechanism for the allocation of resources between and within organizations contrasted with the market mechanism.

  9. Cost allocation - Wikipedia

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    For example, the CIO may provide all IT services within the company and assign the costs back to the business units that consume each offering. The core components of a cost allocation system consist of a way to track which organizations provides a product and/or service, the organizations that consume the products and/or services, and a list ...