Study Guide Taylor’s University Undergraduate Business Programmes BUS1604/ECN60104 Microeconomics March Semester 2016 ______________________________________________________________ TUTORIAL 1 (WEEK 2): INTRODUCTION - THE NATURE AND METHOD OF ECONOMICS. THE ECONOMIZING PROBLEM (CHAPTER 1&2) CLASS ACTIVITIES: • Recap Lecture 1 • Tutorial exercises LEARNING OUTCOMES: Understand the meaning and significance of economics. Distinguish between microeconomics
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Maximizing Profits in Market Structures Instructor: Market Structure The Market structure is the organizational and characteristics of a market. The focus on those characteristics affects the nature of competition and pricing. For example, if someone asked what brand of car or shoes they have, it is likely that the person could tell you the brand name. But if you asked them what type of milk, water, eggs that they purchased, most likely they will tell you that they don’t know and
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Principles of Economics An economist approach to the problem of alcohol abuse would first start with the opportunity cost. This problem results from society spending millions of dollars each year on the consumption involving alcohol. Federal estimates for the costs of alcohol abuse come perilously close to fiction - or even fraud. The wildly escalating estimates cited by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) betrays a soft underbelly of accounting assumptions. The latest
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ECON 203 MCQs Click Link Below To Buy: http://hwaid.com/shop/econ-203-mcqs/ Part I (6 points: 2 points each) All of the questions in this Part refer to the market for canned tuna fish. All questions are concerned only with the short run. Each situation is not related to the others. Analyze each question separately. Assume that the supply and demand curves are normally shaped. In each question, at most one curve will shift. Use the following code to indicate each of your answers:
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ECO/365 Final Exam v.4 | User | 9020019679 | First Name | LORETTA | Last Name | LUCERO | Confirmation # | 23611188 | Score | 50 | Total Questions: | 30 | Total Correct | 15 | Start: | 5/29/2013 12:48:13 PM | End: | 5/29/2013 1:11:00 PM | Here is some additional information on items you missed: Topic: Differentiate between macroeconomics and microeconomics. Question: A basic difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is that microeconomics | Topic: Analyze the
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concerning monopoly and perfect competitive market failing to attract our eyes. And this is also a hot topic we discussed in our economics course. According to the article, Google, the most popular search engine in the world, controls nearly 82% of the global search market and 98% of the mobile search market. Its annual revenue is larger than the economies of the world's 28 poorest countries combined. And its closest competitor, Bing, is so far behind in both market share and revenue that Google has
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firm typically earns a positive economic profit. Why is there this difference? The lack of barriers to entry will allow competitors to enter the market unil economic profit is zero. These firms are price takers, and they cannot affect prices because their demand curve is horizontal. (4 marks) 2. Assume that a single firm in a pure competitive industry has a fixed cost of $6500 and variable costs as indicated in the table below. a. Calculate the TC, AFC, AVC, ATC, and MC columns for
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& 6 Homework Economics for Management A firm in a perfectly competitive market invents a new method of production that lowers its marginal costs. What happens to its output? What happens to the price it charges? If the firm invents a new method of production that lowers its marginal costs then in turn it will be able to produce or output more. Nothing will occur to the price in which it charges as we know in a perfectly competitive market all of the firms are price takers however, since it is
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Deliberate strategy is a strategy realised as intended while emergent strategy is said to be patterns of consistence realised despite, or in the absence of intentions. “ A strategy is said to be perfectly deliberate if the realised is formed exactly as intended. A strategy is perfectly emergent if there is order in the absence of intentions ”. ( Mintzberg & Waters, 1985). TYPES OF STRATEGY
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Effects Landlords 6 How It Effects Consumers 7 How It Creates A Black Market For The Good 8 Conclusion 10 References 11 Introduction Price Ceiling A price ceiling is a government imposed price control to make sure that a goods can not be sold for more than a certain price, they cap the price at a certain point rather than letting be sold at the equilibrium. When a price ceiling is set there is more demand in the market than the product being supplied. The government has created excess demand
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