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Economics Flashcards

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Elastic Demand

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Price changes cause a large change in quantity demanded.

The flatter curve is more elastic

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Inelastic Demand

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Price changes cause little change in quantity demanded.

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Consumer Surplus

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Price above the equilirbium price what consumers would have been willing to pay

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Price elasticity formula

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Percentage change in quantity demanded / Percentage change in price

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Unit elastic

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Elasticity is exactly 1

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Less elastic demand (5)

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  • Fewer substitutes
  • Short run (less time)
  • Categories of product
  • Necessities
  • Small budget share
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More elastic demand (5)

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  • More substitutes
  • Long run (more time)
  • Specific brands
  • Luxuries
  • Large budget share
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Midpoint method

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Takes the average in case the price and quantity change multiple times

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Less elastic supply (4)

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  • Difficult to increase production at constant unit cost
  • Large share of market for inputs
  • Global supply
  • Short run
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More elastic: (4)

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  • Easy to increase production at constant unit cost
  • Small share of market for inputs
  • Local supply
  • Long run
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Who carries the burden of the tax

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The less elastic side of the market bears the larger burden

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Effects of price ceilings (5)

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  1. Shortages
  2. Reductions in quality
  3. Wasteful lines due to price ceiling
  4. Lost gains from trade due to price ceiling
  5. Misallocation/random of resources of price ceiling (not to the most profitable asset)
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Price floors (4)

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  1. Surpluses, minimum wage creates unemployment among unskilled workers
  2. Lost gains from trade (dead-weight loss), firms might reallocation or become less competitive.
  3. Wasteful increases in quality, increase quality instead of lowering prices in order to stay competitive
  4. Misallocation of resources
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Arguments against international trade (4)

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  1. Trade reduces domestic jobs
  2. Its wrong to trade with countries that use child labour
  3. Gate keep jobs for national security
  4. Keep some jobs domestic for “economic spillovers” for other jobs
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Social cost:

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private cost + external cost

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Pigouvian taxes

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tax to reduce the output of a harmful externality

17
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Coase theorem (3)

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-> The market can handle externalities when:

  • Transactions costs are low
  • Property rights are clearly defined
  • The market alone might not solve the externality problem, however it can create new markets
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Government solutions for externality problem (2)

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A. Command and control; control must be cheap and government needs full information about externality.
B. Tradeable allowances

19
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Maximum profit is reached when

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MR = MC

20
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Monopolist is a firm with market power:

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P > MC

21
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Sources of market power: (5)

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  • Patents
  • Laws preventing entry of competitors
  • Economies of scale
  • Hard to duplicate inputs
  • Innovation
22
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Why cartels collapse: (3)

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  1. Cheating by the cartel members
  2. New entrants and demand response
    - Control over a key resource or input
    - Economies of scale
    - Network effects
    - Government barriers
  3. Government prosecutions
23
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Network goods: (3)

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  1. Usually sold by monopolies or oligopolies
  2. The “best” product does not always win
  3. Competition is “for the market” instead of “in the market”
24
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Nash equilibrium (def)

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: A situation in which no placer has an incentive to change his or her strategy unilaterally (without communicating with others).

25
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Contestable market

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if a competitor could realistically enter and take business from the current leader. Actual entry isn’t required—just the possibility. This potential competition keeps even dominant firms disciplined, as the threat of new entrants acts as a competitive force.

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Monopolistically

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refers to a market structure where many firms sell similar but differentiated products, allowing each firm some degree of market power.

27
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Monopolistic competition (3)

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  1. Many sellers
  2. Free entry and exit
  3. Downward sloping demand curve because of product differentiation
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Product differentiation: (4)

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  • Products can be differentiated along any dimension that people care about
  • Differentiated products are often highly advertised
  • Firms want consumers to perceive their products as different and better because that increases their market power
  • Examples: restaurants, cereal, clothing, shoes, service industry in large cities
29
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Marginal product labor

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Marginal Revenue Increase by additional worker

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