QUESTION 4 small in comparison you find out that both Save-On Foods and the car lots are customers for the sign Your third assignment is to examine the Jim Pattison Sign Company. In our analysis, company. You also find out that there is really only one other sign company in Vancouver: ACME Signs. All of the other sign companies that are out there are very A. Please make arguments that support the concept that Save-On and the car lots should pay the same price for the same signs as any other customer of the sign company? Why would the contrary be the case? B. What are some of the theories that you can suggest for the number of signs that are sold, and the prices for those signs? What is the economic theory that would determine these prices? C. If you are asked by Jim Pattison whether or not he should try to acquire ACME Signs, what arguments would you use to support your recommendation that he should. What arguments would you avoid? What impediments might there be to such an acquisition? Would it assist you to know that social media is gaining in use and acceptance? D. Imagine the following taxes: a bylaw against ugly signs in city cores in BC, a tax on electricity for signs, a pollution charge on the chemicals in paint. How would this affect the sign company? QUESTION 4 small in comparison you find out that both Save-On Foods and the car lots are customers for the sign Your third assignment is to examine the Jim Pattison Sign Company. In our analysis, company. You also find out that there is really only one other sign company in Vancouver: ACME Signs. All of the other sign companies that are out there are very A. Please make arguments that support the concept that Save-On and the car lots should pay the same price for the same signs as any other customer of the sign company? Why would the contrary be the case? B. What are some of the theories that you can suggest for the number of signs that are sold, and the prices for those signs? What is the economic theory that would determine these prices? C. If you are asked by Jim Pattison whether or not he should try to acquire ACME Signs, what arguments would you use to support your recommendation that he should. What arguments would you avoid? What impediments might there be to such an acquisition? Would it assist you to know that social media is gaining in use and acceptance? D. Imagine the following taxes: a bylaw against ugly signs in city cores in BC, a tax on electricity for signs, a pollution charge on the chemicals in paint. How would this affect the sign company
