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Changes in DEMAND

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a shift of the entire demand curve, caused by:

  • income
  • consumer taste
  • price related goods
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Changes in Supply

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a shift of the supply curve cause by

  • cost of production (labour, capital, raw material)
  • weather pattern (for agricultural products
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Price Elasticity of Demand

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measures the % change in quantity demanded, from a 1% change in price

Formula:
p change Q
_ * ________
Q. change P

When Ep > 1, the good is price elastic
When Ep < 1, the good is price in elastic

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Cross- price elasticity of Demand

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measures the % change in quantity demanded of good A that resulted from a 1% change in price of good B

  • compliments
  • substitutes
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Regression Analysis

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= estimation of relationship between different variables using available data

can use ordinary least square (OLS) regression to find linear function that best describes observations

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Production Decisions

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  • should firm use labour- intensive or capital- intensive productive technology?
  • how many workers should be employed?
    How to adjust production when eg. wage increase?

Formal approach: describes a firms production function, consider only labour (L) and capital (K)

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Cobb-Douglas function

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q(L,K) = c * L^a * K^B

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Estimating the Production Function

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  1. Need production data (inputs, outputs)
  2. Consider Cobb-Douglas function
  3. Take (natural) logs to linearize the production function, and add the error term E –> ln(q) = ln(c) + aln(L) + …..
  4. write production function in terms of q
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Efficiency Measures

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= measures how much, on average, each worker/ unit of capital can produce

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Marginal product of labour/ capital

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= measures additional output when labour/capital increases by one unit

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Optimal Input Choice: short run

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= labour is variable, but capital is fixed

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Optimal Input Choice: Long run

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= firms can adjust both capital & labour input

- isoquants and isocost

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Isoquants

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firms can produce the same output level with different combinations of capital & labour (long run)

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Slope of a isoquant

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= measures how one input can be substituted for the other without changing output

input combinations leading to the same output

  • positive slope = marginal rate of tech. substitution
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Isocost line

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= shows all combinations of capital (K) and labour (L) leading to the same cost of production

input combinations leading to the same cost

  • to get the isocost line, solve the cost function for K
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Cost Minimizing Input Choice

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  1. choose the output level (q) we want to produce

2. Combine isoquant & isocost line to identity the efficient input combination

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Knowing Cost of Production ?

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knowing production costs is important for

  • production
  • investment decisions
  • optimal pricing
  • mergers & acquisitions
  • government regulations
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Total Cost of a FirmL

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formula = cost of capital/labour + other costs

other costs

  • costs of other inputs
  • R&D / advirtisment expenses
  • Management / exec compensations
  • licensing / legal fees
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Opportunity costs

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= costs associated with opportunities that are foregone when a firms resources are not put to their highest - value use
- often hidden but should be included in cost calculations

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Sunk Costs

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= expenditures that have been made in the past & cannot be recovered
- this should NOT affect economic decision making

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Total Cost of a Firm: Components

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Total Cost = FC + VC
FC - does not vary w/ output (costs that need to be paid by firm regardless of the level of output
VC - costs that vary w/ output

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economic profit vs. accounting profit

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economic profit < accounting profit (includes opportunity costs)

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ATC

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is the slope of the line from organ to total cost curve (TC)

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MC

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is the slope of a post on total cost curve (TC) or VC

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Cost estimation - procedure
1. Linear cost function (constant) 2. Quadratic cost function (linear MC) 3. Cubic Cost function (quadratic MC)
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Identifying the appropriate cost function
1. Eliminate all cost functions where higher-power coefficient is significant (5% level) 2. Amount the remaining cost functions, choose the one with the highest adjusted R2
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Demand Estimation
= knowing characteristics of demand is important for managerial/economic decision making firms - optimal pricing, forcasting government - enforcing antitrust law
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Data sources
= commercial data providers (product/consumer level)
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Linear Demand Function
= general linear demand function for product x
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Demand estimation - accounting for trends
panel data - observations for different points in time (day/moth/year)
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Consumer preference
usually changes over time | - need to account for changes of demand over time
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Estimation of Linear Demand function
add: - time coefficient bt to account for trends - time error term E
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Non - linear Demand Estimation
= often actual demand can be better described by a non-linear demand function - use the constant elasticity demand function to describe a non-linear relationship between price & quantity demanded
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adjusted R2
Rule - choose the model with the higher adjusted R2
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Demand Forecasting
= use demand estimation to forecast demand | - important for input procurement/adjustment of production capacity
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Industry Analysis
= Whether a firm has market power depends on how we define its market (e.g. monopoly)
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Market Definition
= product market - what products to include?
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Industry Concentration
= Use HHI (Herfinahl - Hirschnian Index)
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HHI (Herfinahl - Hirschnian Index) rules
- HHI < 1500 (market is competitive) - 2,500 < HHI < 2,500 (market is moderately concentrated) - HHI > 2,500 (market is highly concentrated)
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Barrier to entry:
- scale economies - patents - technology - name recognition - strategic action
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Firms compete in:
- Prices (when output can be easily adj.) | - Quantities (when adjusting output takes a long time)
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Profit Maximization
= R(q) - C(q)
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Market structure and profits
revenue depends on demand elastic - competitive vs. monopolistic markets - homogenous vs. heterogeneous products costs: - competitive firms: strong incentives to reduce costs by improving efficiency - firms with market power: incentives to reduce costs are weaker
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Perfectly Competitive Markets
1. Price Taking - each firm takes market price as given (price taken) - each firm is small 2. Product homogeneity - perfectly identical products 3. Force Entry & Exit - no special costs to enter (or exit) an industry profut maximizing occurs when P =.MC (q)
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Positive Profits
ATC < P
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Negative profits
ATC > P (fixed costs are too high)
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Short Run Productions - competitive
if P> min (AVC), the firm should continue to produce in | p< min (AVC), the firm should shut down (cannot even corner variable costs)
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Supply curve
the competitive firm chooses output level where P=MC (q) as long as P>min (AVC)
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Long Run
= zero economics profit | P* = min (AtC): price where AC is minimized
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Economic profit
- difference between firms rev & direct & indirect costs - takes into account opp. costs
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Economic Rent
= the opp. cost since the owner bears the app. cost of renting the land to someone else - although economic rent is earned, economic profit is zero - market prices typically reflect economic rents
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Characteristics of a Monopoly
1. one seller - many buyers 2. one product (not many substitutes) 3. Barriers to entry (patents) 4. Price setter (can decide what to change)
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Optimal Advertising Budgets
depends on how effective advertising is
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Constant elasticity demand function
log-linearize the demand function & add a time coefficient before running your regression
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The Social costs of monopoly
- competitive firm will produce where P= MC - Monopoly produces where MR = MC results in higher prices & lower quantities
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Deadweight loss from Monopoly power
monopolists restricts output & charges higher prices - consumers are worse off social cost of money usually exceeds the DWL. (Advertisement, lobbying, building capacity
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The Case for Monopolies
- creative destruction (replacement of one monopoly by another from innovation) - industry dynamics (1. profits attract competitors, 2. barriers to entry disappear)
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Natural Monopolies
= if one firm can produce the entire output at a lower cost than serval firms
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Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition
1. Many firms 2. Free entry and exit (low barriers) 3. Differentiated but substitutable products ( sushi restaurant example)
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Product differentiation
(key to market power) | - gives firms market power (demand is not perfectly elastic, firms can charge prices above MC)
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Costs & Benefits of Monopolistic Competition
Social costs - P > MC = DWL - Advertise (to differentiate products) = insufficient use of economic resources) Benefits - greater product variety - Important drive for innovation (smartphones)
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Oligopoly
1. Small # of firms 2. Product diff. may or may not exist - barriers to entry - -> scale economies - -> patents - -> technology - -> name recognition
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Equilibrium
= Because only a few, each must consider: how its actions will affect its rivals, and how their rivals will respond
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Using Nash equilibrium
= to analyze oligopolistic behaviour (each firm is doing the best it can, given what its competitors are doing)
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The Cournot Model
used to analyze duopolies (market with 2 firms) | - each firm correctly assumes how much its competitors will produce
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The Stackelberg model
= oligopoly model in which one firm sets its output before other firms do firm 1 - can select its preferred point of firm 2s reaction curve - going first allows firm 1 to produce a large quantity (always advantageous if firms chooses quantity (not price) (first mover advantages)
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Price Competition (Oligopoly)
Competition in a oligopolistic industry may occur with price instead of output
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Oligopoly Price Competition : Bertrand Competition
Often where output can be easily changes
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Price Competition : Bertrand - Homogeneous Products
Cosumers will first observe prices, and then buy from lowest price seller
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Cobb-douglas function
q = c * La * KB
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Barriers to entry for Oligopoly
``` Technological advances scale economies patents name recognition strategic action ```
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Double marginalization problem
arises when there are two monopolies within the same vertical supply chain. Then each monopolist exercises market power, and adds a markup to the product. this results in higher prices and therefor lower consumer surplus
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One segment tariff
P=MC , T=CS
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Two segment tariff
P>MC ,
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Price Competition (Bertrand) Differentiated products
Assumptions - firms face the same demand curves - firms set price simultaneously
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non-cooperative equilibrium
=Nash equilibrium
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Observations of Oligopoly behaviour
1. collusion will lead to greater profits 2. in some oligopoly markets, collusion is feasible - explicit or implicit 3. in other oligopoly markets, firms are very aggressive and collusion is not possible - deviation is the best strategy 4. in some markets, dominant firms regularly announce price changes tat small firms match - price leadership
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Dominant Firms
in some industries, a single firm has overwhelming market share ex: De Beers and the market for diamonds
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dominant firms assumptions
one large firm - many smaller, price taking firms; The "competitive fringe - the large firm acts as a dominant firm, setting a price that maximizes its own profits - dominant firm must determine its demand curve Dd
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Dominant firms demand curve
the dominant firms demand curve is the difference between market demand D and the supply of the fringe firms
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Price discrimination types
first degree second degree third degree intertemporal
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Capturing Consumer surplus
a firm with market power faces a downward sloping demand curve, and can therefor set its price above marginal cost - consumer - firm wants to capture more of the CS - pricing strategies

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