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Record 1 2025-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
  • Trade
CONT

... competitive prices would incent producers to produce the efficient levels of goods and services at the lowest cost thereby earning a competitive profit rather than a supra-competitive profit.

OBS

competitive profit: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • competitive profits

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
  • Commerce
CONT

[...] les prix compétitifs favorisent la production efficiente de biens et de services, au coût le plus bas possible afin d’obtenir un niveau de profit concurrentiel plutôt que supra concurrentiel.

OBS

profit concurrentiel : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • profits concurrentiels

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
  • Market Structure (Trade)
CONT

An economically efficient price is one that would be charged in a perfectly competitive market. In such a market there are many buyers and many sellers who have full information about the price and cost of an item. They also know about possible substitutes and complementary products. Moreover, the prices of all products fully reflect all external costs and benefits.

CONT

Based on economic theory, in a perfectly free market - that is free from all constraints - price increases can't stick.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)
CONT

Un prix efficient sur le plan économique est celui qui serait imputé dans un marché parfaitement concurrentiel. Dans un tel marché, il y a de nombreux acheteurs et vendeurs qui disposent de tous les renseignements sur le prix et le coût d’un article. Ils sont aussi familiers avec les produits de substitution et ceux qui sont complémentaires. De plus, les prix de tous les produits tiennent pleinement compte de l'ensemble des coûts externes et des avantages.

CONT

Si l’on se fonde sur la théorie économique, les hausses de prix ne peuvent perdurer dans un marché parfaitement concurrentiel, c’est-à-dire libre de toutes contraintes.

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
  • Investment
OBS

Where a potential overseas buyer cannot complete the purchase of plant or equipment for lack of funds or because of his own country's licensing regulations, it can sometimes be arranged for him to be supplied through a machinery-leasing company. The latter company purchases the equipment from the supplier (who receives immediate payment in full) and leases it to the overseas customer. Information on leasing companies is normally available from bank managers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Investissements et placements
OBS

Cette forme de financement commercial est habituellement utilisée par les exportateurs qui, de concert avec une société de crédit-bail, veulent se donner un avantage concurrentiel lorsque les régimes fiscaux de certains pays permettent de financer l'acquisition de biens d’équipement par l'importateur à un coût moindre que celui d’autres formes de financement commercial, ou lorsque des restrictions à l'importation empêchent l'acheteur d’acquérir directement du matériel étranger.

Spanish

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Record 4 1981-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cost Accounting
OBS

P [price] = MC [marginal cost] = minimum competitive costs, the long run Break-even equilibrium (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité analytique

Spanish

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Record 5 1980-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting
  • Production (Economics)
OBS

The price of labor and other factors that competitive farmers in an industry are forced to pay out explicitly depend importantly on the forgone opportunities for use in other industries or for leisure; and this means that all competitive costs involve opportunity costs in the background.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité
  • Production (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 6 1980-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
OBS

(...) full competitive cost intimately involves opportunity cost.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Lois du marché (Économie)

Spanish

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