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Midterm: Chapters 1, 2, 32, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6a, 7 Flashcards

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What is microeconomics?

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The study of how households and firms make decisions to interact in markets.

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What is Economics?

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The study of how society manages its scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants.

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What is opportunity cost?

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The next best alternative given up in order to obtain a certain good.

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What is absolute advantage?

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Who can produce more of a good using the same amount of resources and time.

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Can you have an absolute advantage in both goods?

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Yes

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What is comparative advantage?

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Who can produce the good with the lowest opportunity cost.

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Can you have a comparative advantage in both goods?

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No

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What is a comparative disadvantage?

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When countries import goods that would cost them a lot to make

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On a production possibilities frontier/boundary, how does opportunity change on a straight line?

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There is a constant opportunity cost

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On a production possibilities frontier/boundary, how does opportunity change on a curved line?

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The opportunity cost becomes greater as you move from a point on the y-axis towards the x-axis

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An independent variable is also called what?

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An exogenous variable

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What is an exogenous variable?

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A variable determined outside the theory

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A dependent variable is also called what?

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A endogenous variable

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What is an endogenous variable?

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A variable explained within a theory

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Opportunity Cost example: With a budget of $200 million, a government can purchase 4 helicopters or repair 200km of highway. What is the opportunity cost of 1 helicopter?

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50 km of highway

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If a farmer can produce 8 meat or 8 vegetables, and a rancher 24 meat of 16 vegetables, who has absolute advantage in what and comparative advantage in what?

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Rancher has an absolute advantage in both goods and comparative advantage in meat.

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If two countries participate in trade and specialization, what is the best terms of trade?

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The least amount a country can give of a product in trade with another, the better.

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What is the law of demand?

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The quantity demanded of a good will decrease when the price of a good increases

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What is market demand?

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The sum of all individual demands at each price of the good

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What causes a change in demand? and how does the demand curve change

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Caused by any factor besides price and represented by a shift in demand curve.

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What causes a change in quantity demanded? How is change in quantity demanded represented on demand curve?

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Caused by an increase in price and shown by movement along the same demand curve.

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What is the law of supply?

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The quantity supplied of a good will increase when price of a good increases

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What is market supply?

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The sum of all individual supply levels at each price of the good

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What causes a change in supply and how is this represented on the supply curve?

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Any other factors besides price and represented by shifts of the supply curve

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What causes a change in quantity supplied and how is this represented on a supply curve?
Caused by a change in price and represented by movement along the same supply curve
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What is market equilibrium?
When Quantity demand = Quantity Supply
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What does a rightward shift in supply curve mean?
An increase in the quantity supplied at each price
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What happens when there is an excess supply (surplus) from a change in equilibrium?
This happens what QS > QD
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What happens when there is excess demand (shortage) from a change in equilibrium?
When QD > QS
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What is price elasticity of demand definition?
A measure of how much QD of a good responds to a change in P of that good
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What is price elasticity of demand equation?
n= %change in QD (QDnew-QDoriginal ÷ avg QD) ÷ % change in P (Pnew-Poriginal ÷ avg P)
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At which number is something considered elastic and inelastic?
Elastic is from 1-infinity | Inelastic is 0-1
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Price elasticity of demand example: If original price of a good is $15 and QD was 100 and the new price is $20 with a QD of 80, what is the price elasticity of demand?
``` %△QD= -.22 %△P= .2857 n= -.22÷.2857 = .77 ```
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What is a perfectly inelastic demand?
n=0, so %△QD=0 which results in a vertical demand line
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What is an inelastic demand? (Not very responsive)
0 < n < 1 so a change in price will cause a small change in QD which results in an almost vertical demand line
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What is a perfectly elastic demand?
n= infinity and there is no change in price regardless of a change in QD the demand line is horizontal
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What is an elastic demand? (largely responsive)
1< n < infinity. A small change in price will induce a large change in QD. The demand line will be in between horizontal and vertical.
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What is a unitary elastic demand?
n=1 results in a curved demand
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How do substitutes effect the price elasticity of demand?
The more substitutes that exist for a good, the more demand is elastic.
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What is the difference between a necessity and a luxury regarding elasticity of demand?
``` Necessity= less elastic demand Luxury= more elastic demand ```
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How is elasticity of demand on a straight line demand curve?
It is more elastic as n increases.
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What is the equation for total revenue?
TR= P x Quantity sold
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What happens to total revenue if price drops?
Total revenue decreases
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What is the definition of income elasticity of demand?
A measure of the responsiveness of quantity demanded to a change in income.
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What is the income elasticity of demand equation?
nY= %△QD ÷ %△Income
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At what number is a good a necessity or a luxury or inferior?
Necessity- 0-1 Inferior- 0 to negative infinity Luxury- 1- infinity
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How does QD change with an increase in income for a necessity good? (income elasticity)
QD does not go up much
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How does QD change with an increase in income for a luxury good? (income elasticity)
A substantial increase in QD
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What is cross elasticity of demand?
A measure of the responsiveness of quantity of one commodity demanded to change in price of another commodity
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Cross elasticity of demand equation
nXY= %△QDx ÷ %△Py
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When is something considered a compliment or substitute? (cross elasticity of demand)
``` Compliment= when nXY is between 0 and negative infinity Substitute= when nXY is between 0 and infinity ```
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What is the price elasticity of supply equation?
ns= %△QS ÷ %△P
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What is a perfectly inelastic supply?
ns=0 and is not responsive to a change in price. The graph is a vertical line
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What is a perfectly elastic supply?
ns= infinity. the graph is horizontal
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What is an inelastic supply?
0 < ns < 1. The graph is curved by goes through middle where perfectly elastic and inelastic supplies would be
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What is a unitary elastic supply?
ns=1 the graph is a straight line
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What is an elastic supply?
1 < ns < infinity. The graph is not super curved, almost a line but not
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What is a price ceiling?
A legal maximum on the price at which a good can be sold
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Is a price ceiling set higher than equilibrium price impactful or not?
No impact/Non-binding
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Is a price ceiling set below than equilibrium price impactful or not?
Has an impact and is binding
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Does a price ceiling set below equilibrium shortage or surplus?
Shortage/excess demand
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What is a price floor?
A legal minimum on the price at which a good can be sold
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Is a price floor set higher than equilibrium price impactful or not?
Impactful and binding
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Is a price floor set lower than equilibrium price impactful or not?
No impact and non-binding
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Does a price floor set above equilibrium have surplus or shortage?
Surplus/ Excess supply
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Where is consumer surplus on a price ceiling/floor?
Above the price and below demand line. Also it is to the left of the quantity.
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Where is producer surplus on a price floor/ceiling?q
Below price and above supply line. Also it is to the left of the quantity.
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Where is Dead Weight Loss (D.W.L.)?
Difference from where previous consumer and producer surplus was and now is no longer with new quantity.
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What is a shortage?
Government controls the market price below the equilibrium
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What is a surplus?
Government controls the market price above equilibrium
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What is marginal utility?
Additional satisfaction resulting from one more unit of that product (underlies theory of demand)
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What is the law of diminishing returns?
The utility that any consumer derives from successive units of a particular product consumption over time diminishes as total consumption increases
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What is the substitution effect?
Increases the QD of a product whose price has fallen and decreases the QD of a product who price has risen
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What is consumer surplus?
Difference between the maximum amount a consumer is willing to pay for that unit and the price the consumer actually pays
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What is willingness to pay?
The maximum that a consumer will pay for a good
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Equation for total net gain for consumer surplus?
Willingness to pay-Price
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What happens to consumer surplus if price decreases?
There is an additional consumer surplus between the two prices and to the left of the quantity as well as to the right of the quantity
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What is producer surplus?
As quantity increases, the cost of production does as well
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Where is total revenue on producer surplus graph?
Underneath price and surplus but to the left of quantity
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What happens with an increase in price and producer surplus?
There is an additional producer surplus between the two prices but to the left of the quantity. Additional producer surplus to the right of quantity
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Equation for total net gain and producer surplus
Price-Cost of production
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Are indifference curves the same for everyone?
No
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What are two characteristics of indifference curves?
1. Any point above an indifference curve is preferred to a point on the curve 2. Any point on a curve is preferred to any point below it
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What is the marginal rate of substitution?
Amount of one product that a consumer is willing to give up for one more of another product
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What is the diminishing marginal rate of substitution?
The less of one product and the more of a second product that the consumer has already, the smaller the amount of that the consumer will be willing to give up to get an additional unit of product B.
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What is a budget line/ Budget Constraint?
Shows all the combinations of product that are available to the consumer so his income and the prices of the goods he purchases
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What is optimal consumption?
Consumers want to maximize utility, subject to budget constraint so it is when an indifference curve touches the budget constraint
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How does optimal consumption change when there is a change in income? 2 ways
There is either an increased consumption in both goods or an increase in one good and decrease in another
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How does optimal consumption change when there's a change in one good?
There is less consumption of one good
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How does optimal consumption change when there is a change in price of both goods?
There will either a decrease in both goods
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What is the main goal for most firms?
Profit maximization
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Calculating profit equation?
Total revenue-total cost
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What is accounting cost?
Focuses on explicit costs and ignore implicit costs
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What is an economic cost?
Focuses on explicit and implicit costs
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What is an explicit cost?
Obvious costs | ex. wages, cost of materials
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What is an implicit cost?
Non-obvious costs | ex. time cost doing a job yourself as an owner
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Is economic or accounting profit smaller?
Economic profit is always smaller
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Marginal product of labor (MPL) equation
△Output ÷ △Labor
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Average product of labor (APL) equation
Total output (Q) ÷ Number of Workers (L)
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When is APL at its max?
When APL equals MPL and MPL is falling
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Total cost equation?
Variable cost + Fixed cost
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What is marginal cost?
An increase in cost as a result of producing an additional unit of output (not labor)
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Marginal cost equation?
Change in total cost ÷ change in total output
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Average total cost equation?
Total cost ÷ quantity of output
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Average fixed cost equation?
Fixed cost ÷ Quantity
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Average Variable cost equation?
Variable cost ÷ quantity
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Total variable cost equation?
Labor x Wage of labor

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