HC1072 Economic Analysis of the Australian Market Assignment Sample

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Contents

Microeconomic Analysis.

Event/Product/Company Description.

Microeconomic Analysis (Part 1).

Industry Description and Market Structure Analysis.

Externalities.

Macroeconomic Analysis (Part 2) GDP and Unemployment

Fiscal Policy.

Monetary Policy.

Microeconomic Analysis

Event/Product/Company Description

(a) The COVID time was the major turn on the events, leading to the cascading impacts.

The purpose was to identify, how the consumers have shifted to online shopping conveniently and have are demanding more of the online resources (Schauer, 2019). It has caused the physical stores to shut down and due to the low visually appealing merchandise stores, the consumers are now researching more on the online sites and vast online competitors are competing in the same market.

b)

• Product/Service – Online shopping, Fashion, Furniture, Foot Markets, and other accessories
• High rentals and fewer space requirements. Infrastructure and property rates have experienced a downturn. Online shopping is done through the "cloud" connection concept, leading to low demand for high rental spaces in Australia and the real estate, property rates has experienced a downward trend (Riganti, 2017).

c)

• Producer or the Suppliers – High rentals spaces and the provision of the more physical space infrastructure. Landlords and the retailers. Bricks and Motors supplying the store
• Consumers who are demanding 1) Consumers across various segments who are demanding and shopping, 2) Consumers switching and substituting, 3) Fashion and the Furniture have the large physical stores in the expensive places, 4) Consumers commute from one distance to visit the shopping complex for the frequent purchases, low demand of cars, cabs and petrol 5) Low infrastructure demand and high rentals (Riganti, 2019).

Microeconomic Analysis (Part 1)

a)

• Price – Prices are low of the properties and rentals space as there are fewer buyers and their low investors. The law of demand is applied here.
• Rentals – Rentals earned are the part of the producer income and rentals earned on the property rent out is the capital earned.
• Changes in the Needs and Preferences – Consumer has the switch of the needs and preferences and have substituted or changed their purchasing from the physical store to the online stores (Mendes Jr, 2016).
• Substitute Affects – Consumers' preference for online shopping has to lead to the loss of the physical store's place and has caused more vacant spaces.
• Price and Income Expectations – Australia shopping malls are the high-end premium markets where the rentals are high, if the consumer has now switched to the cloud stores or online shopping, gradually the high rented spaces would have low demands and during the Corona, more rented spaces would be vacant, causing pressure on the landlords (who are getting low rentals) and the retailers who are giving up the rented spaces. it has caused low hiring and low wages of the workers and in turn, has to lead to lower demand for the fashion brands and foot accessories.
• Buyers – Due to the Coronavirus, maintaining social distancing, there has been lower demand for the physical store's goods (where the face to face interaction or the contagious spread can happen), and globally merchandising has upgraded the online shopping options.

b)

• Resource Prices – High rented spaces and the low infrastructure demands (shops, offices, or the mall's space)
• Number of Sellers – Numerous producers such as landlords and retailers.
• Technology – Online shopping and ease of integrating the cloud shopping concept, that has lowered costs (low rentals paid) but the shifting process by the producers from the physical stores to online shopping is a slow and long term process.

.• Price and Economy of the Producers – As there is the low demand of the fashion brands, footwear, and the furniture and people buying it online, the costs of high rentals have to lead to experiencing a lower profit (as rentals are high to be paid every month and the cost of engaging employees who would sell the products), which has to lead to the consequence of shutting down stores, employees losing jobs and this has further lead to low demand of the nonessential items even more (Zamani, 2016).

• Time – Due to the sudden shock in the economy, where the supply was there (due to many suppliers), but the demand was negative or low, has caused the deteriorating impacts, as the producers within the short period has to pay high rentals and wages to employees and due to the demand shock, there is low demand.

c) Numerous producers and suppliers – The market of the fashion brands, footwear, and even furniture are high which are competing in the niche space (Varshavskaya, 2019).

Consumers are one Australian people-: who have shifted their preference from the physical purchasing to online shopping. The second shift is buying the essential items more than the nonessential items. Low demand for nonessential and premium items leading to low employment and a high-pressure environment.

d) Landlords and the retailers are experiencing high rentals pressure and the low demand from the consumers

Consumers have also shifted from the non-essential and luxury products to the essential items.

In this case, it is the producer feeling inelastic supply, they can supply, but there are demand shock low purchasers. Nevertheless, any changes to consumers' preferences, for example, sudden news that the fashion brands are selling in the sanitized environment, offering heavy discounts or providing a free medical check-up, can lead to sudden splurge in such a market. However, for short term it is elastic demand and the producer supplier is inelastic.

Industry Description and Market Structure Analysis

(a) The market is large, where the goods sold are the nonessential items and the premium products. before Cornona they were demanded in the good volume, the Consumer Goods Index indicated good sales growth, but after the Corona effect, there has been a negative and the sudden decline, leading to the shift of power to the Monospony power (where there are one buyer and many sellers). The market was a perfect competition market before the Corona, which changed to Monopsony, shifting power in the hands of consumers who can demand, regulate and spend following their needs (Jadidzadeh, 2017)

b) A monopsony would mean one buyer and there would be many sellers, like in this case where the Australian consumers are one and there are many sellers. It is indicated as the monopsony employer that holds the market power that can hire workers only when the consumers are demanding more and there is a shift of power. It has lead to the low merchandising stores that are willing to invest in the physical stores, low employees hiring and more unemployment, and low wages are given. Leading to low demand for goods such as fashion, footwear, furniture as they are nonessential and luxury products. And there is the shift to the funding to essential activities and the nonessential items (fashion brands, footwear, furniture, etc.) are demanded less. Giving up the physical stores, closing it, and fully operating it online is a long term process as the infrastructure and opening stores require high sums.

(c) Shopping Centre Council of Australia is regulated under the Retail Code of Conduct. They are trying to lower the rentals, or even boost the demands of the rental through introducing the subversion scheme, where the rentals can be paid upfront after a certain tenure or period. The Australian government is also trying to lower the rentals, support the producers with the various policies, such as not paying rentals for the 3 months or subsequently asking the landlords to rechange the terms contracts to safeguard the interests of retailers first and then of the landlords. If the retailers are supported, they would continue to hire the workers and the due to the workers getting wages they can spend as they want. This would lead to a higher multiplier impact (Jadidzadeh, 2017).

(d) Retailers groups and the landlords are the leading impacted groups here. They are impacted with the high volume of the consumers who are demanding less and it has lead to the consequences, such as low purchases and facing the high rentals (which is the cost to the producers) and the producers can hire less of the workers and even has lead to high employment causing the detrimental impact on the economy. The landlords are unable to bear the high costs (as rents are enormously high) causing the shops to shut down and to higher the lease options.

Externalities

(a) External parties affected – Government and the Shopping Mall Association along with the various groups.

(b) The impact is negative as the retailer's groups and the landlords have impacting, which are trying to vacant their high rented places and even defaulting on the payment. it has caused in the high rentals places to either shut down or experience the negative impacts on the shopping malls association, that have experienced the cascading impacts of the economy. It is not positive at any aspect

(c) Governments are trying to introduce the policies to safeguard the interest of the producers (mainly the retailers and the landlords) to waive off the enormous rentals, or to include in the subsidized rates and even offer the subversion schemes (Palley, 2019). The other third parties are the Shopping mall association, which has intervened to safeguard the interest of the retailers, to not pay the enormous rent or the substantial rental capital. if there would low rental spaces demand or the leases are given up, then it would cause landlords to be impacted.

Macroeconomic Analysis (Part 2) GDP and Unemployment

(a)

• The GDPs which have been affected are the Government and the Consumer along with the producer impact.
• The consumption, investment, government, and the net exports are impacted as shown from the table

(b) It would decrease the employment and low hiring people

Fiscal Policy

 The fiscal policy such as lowering taxes and government spending has increased to support the economy. Due to higher spending, the producer's interest is safeguarded, as the consumers get more income to spend which they can spend on the essential and the nonessential items. Lowering taxes can again lead to higher spending and low savings.

The policy chosen is expansionary fiscal policy

Monetary Policy

(a) To save the interests of the producers and the consumer.

(b) The monetary policy is the expansionary policies adapted to expand in the economy. It has included more discount rates lowering and reserve requirements lowering, which can help to promote more banks to give loans and more encourage the consumer to pay high (Palley, 2019).

Conclusion and Recommendation on Economic Analysis of the Australian Market

It is concluded, that due to the COVID 19, there have been detrimental impacts, causing a shift of the consumers for the online preferences from the visiting stores. It has led to low demand for the physical stores shopping, high rentals causing producers to shut down shops, or high leasing impacts. Subsequently, low workers are hired and have led to lower wages given to consumers and thus causing more impact on the economy. To revive, it is recommended to adopt expansionary monetary and fiscal policies, to revive the interest of consumers.

References for Economic Analysis of the Australian Market

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