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factor and product market

factor and product market

Q What a great session on resource and market structures we are having! Now, you get the opportunity to talk about the difference between the two types of structures with your colleagues. Locate a firm in the U.S. or in the country where you reside and distinguish the difference between factor markets and product markets. Examine how households influence factor markets and discuss. Locate a recent article or event (published within the last year) that highlights your relevant microeconomics topic. Use the Hunt Library, newspapers, new stations, or other credible sources to discuss how your topic aligns with microeconomics. Include the following in your discussion: • State the article or event you selected. • Identify the microeconomic concept(s). • Describe your findings. • Analyze the relevance to real-life applications.

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For the purpose of the discussion consider the American restaurant chain Burgerville. In the product market, they sell final goods i.e. burgers, chicken sandwiches, veggie burgers, fish sandwiches, and fries, etc. The product market deals with the product demand and supply. On the other hand, the factor market deals with the factors demand and supply. Besides the materials need to produce the food, labor is one of the factors the Burgerville uses to provide the restaurant supply. From the circular flow of income, if we divide the economy into two groups firms and households then the firm is the supplier in the product market and the household is the supplier of the factor market. So the labor supply comes from the households’ side. Any decision of households in the factor market affects the factor