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Product Market

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Buying and selling of finished goods.

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Factor Market

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Buying and selling of factors of production

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Market Economy

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  • Price Mechanism
  • Private Property Ownership
  • Economic Freedom
  • Economic Incentive to take part in activity
  • Consumer Sovereignty
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Competitive Market

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  • Large number of firms
  • Firms are price takers
  • Very similar products
  • Ease of entry
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Non-competitive Market

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  • Small number of firms
  • Product differentiation
  • Firms are price setters
  • Entry is restricted
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Law of Demand

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The higher the price, the less quantity is demanded, and vice versa.

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Individual Demand Curve

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Refers to the quantity of a product by a single consumer at any given price.

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Market demand curve

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Includes the individual demands of all participants in the market.

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Factors Affecting Demand

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  • Price
  • Income
  • Population
  • Tastes and preferences
  • Prices of substitutes and complements
  • Expected future prices
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Change in price on demand curve

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Demand decreases; movements along the curve occur.

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Non-price factors factors affecting demand

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Can either increase or decrease

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Law of Supply

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The lower the price the less supplied, the higher the price, the more supplied.

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Factors affecting Supply

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  • Price
  • Cost of production
  • Factors of production
  • Expected future prices
  • Number of suppliers
  • Technology
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Non-Price factors affect market Supply

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  • Technology: Increase
  • Input Costs: Increase
  • Government Regulations: Decrease
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Market Equilibrium

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When quantity demanded equals quantity supplied.

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Concept of Market Clearing, shortages, surplus.

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Shortages: When there is more demand than supply, buyers will have to compete to buy the product.

Surplus: More supply than demand, cheaper prices.

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Price Mechanism

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See bottom of page 34 in study guide for diagram and explanation.

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Price Elasticity of Demand (PED)

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Measure of the response or reaction in quantity demanded to a change in price of that product.

PED= Percentage change in quantity demanded/percentage change in price.

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Determinants of PED

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  • Importance of product
  • Whether or not substitute products are available
  • Definition or scope of the market
  • Time to respond
  • Proportion of income spent on product
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Price Elastic & Price Inelastic

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  • Price Elastic: A small change in price, causes a large change in demand.
  • Price Inelastic: A large change in price, causes a small change in Demand.
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Link between PED and total revenue

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When price is changed and Demand is elastic, the total revenue will decrease, as consumers are less inclined to buy a product as their Demand is elastic.

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Income Elasticity of Demand (YED)

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YED measures the response of quantity demanded to a change in income.

YED= %change in quantity demanded/% change in income

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Normal and Inferior Goods

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When income is low, the quantity of inferior goods demanded will increase. When income is high inferior goods become unwanted and demand rises for normal goods.

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Cross Elasticity of Demand (XED)

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A measure of the response in demand for a product when the price of a related or linked product changes. It can measure how sensitive demand for apples is if there is a change in price of oranges.

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Value of Substitutes and complimentary goods in relation to XED
Substitutes - Cherry Ripes and Kit Kats Complementary - Petrol and Cars
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Price Elasticity of Supply
Impact of changes in the price of the product on the quantity of a product supplied to the market.
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Elastic and Inelastic Supply
Elastic: Supply of a good or service that increases or decreases as the price of an item goes up or down. Inelastic: A situation in which any increase or decrease in the price of a good or service does not result in a corresponding change in its supply.
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Determinants of PES
- The short run: One factor is fixed - The long run: All resources is fixed, but no new tech is available. - The very long run: All factors can be varied - Technological complexity - Mobility of resources - Ability to hold stocks or inventories - The amount of unused capacity - Does Supply rely on an external factor
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Significance of Price and Income Elasticity for consumers, businesses and Governments
They may want to encourage the use of merit goods such as public transport by providing a subsidy or discouraging the use of demerit goods such as ciggs, cool drinks and cars by installing a tax. Although this will be more successful where price is elastic.
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Market Efficiency
Belief that market economies generate economic efficiency.
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Consumer Surplus
Everybody that buys something gets a bonus because the benefit or pleasure they receive is greater than the price they have to pay for it.
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Producer Surplus
When a producer gets a bonus because the money they receive for a sale is greater than its production cost.
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Maximising Welfare
Consumers and producers opt out of a market when they don't get their bonus. When market equilibrium quantity is reached this occurs.
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Market Failure
Situations where markers do not maximise welfare
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Competitive & Imperfect Markets
Competitive Market: - Large number of firms - Firms are price takers - Very similar products - Ease of entry Imperfect Market: Oligopolies and Monopolies
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Under & Over production = Deadweight loss
Prices may be set above or below the equilibrium or clearance price, therefore not operating at most efficient point, thus deadweight loss occurring.
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Market Power
One or more producers have monopoly power in a market.
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Barriers of Entry
Structural Barriers: Supermarkets buying power over suppliers, access to cheaper finance, specialisation, agglomeration. Strategic Barriers: Control of Supply, brand loyalty, anti-competitive, predatory pricing, bundling, tacit collusion. Legal Barriers: Government regulation, protection of intellectual property.
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Market Power leading to deadweight loss
See page 85 in study guide for graph.
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Role of ACCC in ensuring efficiency.
The act provides general protection, such as protection against misleading advertisements. Concentrating on behaviour that is anti-competitive such as market sharing arrangements, third-line forcing, predatory pricing, boycotts, resale price maintenance.
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Policy options to influence market Power
Informing consumers with websites that close information gaps.
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Positive v Negative Externalities
Positive Consumption: Consumption creates benefits for people not directly involved in making that Consumption decision (E.g. Flu vaccinations and education) Positive Production: Production or a product reduces cost for people not directly involved in making that production decision. (E.g. Training workers, renewable resources to produce energy) Negative Consumption: Consumption imposes loss of benefits for people not directly involved in making that decision. (E.g. using mobile phone when driving, smoking in public) Negative Production: Production imposes loss of benefits for people not directly involved in making that decision. (E.g. using fossil fuels for electricity, musical festivals)
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Externalities influence market efficiency
See page 91 of study guide for diagrams.
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Policy options to correct externalities
Positive Consumption: Provide a subsidy to consumers, government provides free or at a reduced cost. Positive Production: Pay producers a subsidy, allow gains from the sale of permits. Negative Consumption: Tax consumers. Negative Production: Encourage corporate social responsibility, regulate to cut bad behaviour, tax producers.
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Public Good & Common Resource
Public Good: Non-rival, Non-excludable (E.g. Lighthouses, streetlights, national defence systems.) Common Resource: Rival in Consumption, non-excludable (E.g. Forests, fish in the ocean, the atmosphere.)
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Free Rider Problem
Non rival, non excludable characteristics mean they are not demanded or supplied. Without demand or supply a price can not be set, with a glut of free riders there is no incentive to reply because won't make profit.
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Tragedy of the Commons
Refers to the dilemma where many individuals acting on their own accord can destroy a shared resource.
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Policies to reduce market failure associated with public goods and common resources
- Regulate the use of common resources - Assign or sell property rights to private owners - Establish a "cap and trade" parallel market, such as an emissions trading scheme. - Educate people about the dangers of overuse.
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Effects of Tax on a market
Indirect taxes cause the market Supply curve to shift upwards by the amount of tax, effect depends on the relative values of PED and PES
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Effect of Subsidies on a Market
No positive externalities, will move Market away from equilibrium, and cause deadweight loss.
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Price Ceiling & Floors
Ceiling: Maximum price control creates a price ceiling. Floor: A price above the market equilibrium level.

Economics Unit 1 Revision (1 decks)

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