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Key Terms 2 Flashcards

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Adverse Selection

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A situation where good suppliers are forced out of a market because consumers arn’t prepared to pay the price that they need to charge in order to survive

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Consumer moral hazard

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A situation in which consumers get involved in a risky event knowing that it is protected against the risk and the producer will incur the cost

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Deadweight welfare loss

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The amount of social welfare lost forever as a result of either a market failure or a producer artificially raising prices

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Demerit goods

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Products which are considered to be bad by society because they generate negative externalities in production

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Externalities

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A cost or benefit that is felt outside of the market by third parties

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Externalities in consumption

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A third party effect of a market that is created in the consumption of a product

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Externalities in production

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A third parry effect of a market that is created in the production of a product

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Factor immobility

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A situation where scarce resources are not easily moved between different uses

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Imperfect knowledge

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A situation where a decision maker does not have the full information required to make a good decision

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Information asymmetry

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A situation where either the producer or the consumers better information about a market than the other one

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Information failure

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A situation where there is imperfect knowledge when decisions are being made

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Irrational Behaviour

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A situation in which a decision maker makes a decision that is not drive by the desire to maximise their own self interest

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Labour immobility

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A situation where workers are not easily able to move between jobs

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Marginal external benefit

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The extra benefit of producing an extra unit of output received by people outside the market

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Marginal external cost

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The extra cost of producing an extra unit of output paid by people outside the market

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Marginal private benefit

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The extra benefit of producing an extra unit of output received by people inside the market

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Marginal private cost

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The extra cost of producing an extra unit of output paid b y people inside the market

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Marginal social benefit

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The total extra benefit of producing an extra unit of a product. It is calculated by adding MPC to MEC

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Marginal social cost

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The total extra cost of producing an extra unit of a product. Calculated by adding MPC to MEC

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Market failure

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A situation where a market doesn’t efficiently allocate scarce resources

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Merit goods

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Products that are valued by society because they create positive externalities in consumption

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Moral hazard

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A situation in which one party gets involved in a risky event knowing that it is protected against risk and the other party will incur the cost

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Natural monopoly

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A situation where the market means only one firm can survive

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Negative externalities

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A third party effect of a market that is bad

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Non excludable

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Products where a consumer cannot be stopped from consuming the product if they don’t pay for it

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Non rival

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Products where the consumption of a product does not stop other people from consuming it

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Partially missing market

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A market where a product is provided but it is either over or under produced

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Positivity externalities

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A third party effect of a market that is good

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Pure monopoly

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A market in which there is only one firm

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quasi public goods

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Products which have one of the two characteristics of public goods

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public goods

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Products which are both non excludable and non rival

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The command system

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A way of organising an economy so that decisions about the allocation of scarce resources are made by the government

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The market system

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A way of organising an economy so that all decisions about the allocation of scarce resources are made by producers and consumers so the forces of supply and demand

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The mixed system

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A way of organising an economy so that decisions about the allocation of scarce resources are sometimes made by the forces of supply and demand and sometimes by the government

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Barriers to entry

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Characteristics of a market that make it more difficult for a business to set up in an industry

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Concentration

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The degree to which an industry is made up of a few large firms

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Concentration ratio

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A measure of the market share control by the largest firms in the industry

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Differentiation

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The way a producer makes their goods different from similar products

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Monopolistic competition

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A market made up of many small buyers and sellers, where products are very slightly differentiated, there are no barriers to entry and there is perfect knowledge

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Monopoly power

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A measure of the extent to which a business influences its own prices without loosing out to competitors

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Oligopoly

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A market made up of few very large firms that are independent

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Perfect competition

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A market made up of many small buyers and sellers, where products are homogenous and their are no barriers to entry

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Abnormal profit

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The profit of a business that is more than the opportunity cost to them staying in the industry

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Acounting profit

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The profit published by business for tax purposes, calculated by subtracting total costs from total revenues

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Average total cost

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The mean of the costs of producing a product - the cost of producing one item

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Break even

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Where a businesses sells enough items so that its revenue equals its costs so that the profit is zero

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Average revenue

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The mean selling price of a product ie the money brought into a business from selling one unit

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Capital goods

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Products that are produced in order to produce other products

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Capital Intensive

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Where the output of a business is produced using a higher proportion of machinery than workers

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Communication diseconomies

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where growing businesses are increasingly difficult to run as a result of communication difficulties so that the unit cost rises as the business grows

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control diseconomies

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where the unit costs of a business rises as it grows as a result of the business getting more difficult to control

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Diseconomies of sale

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where the unit costs increase as the size of a business increases

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Cooperation economies

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where the unit costs of a business falls as a result of the industry going and the competing firms workigntogethe e.g on research and development

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economies of scale

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the falling cost of production per unit as output increases

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External economies of scale

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cost saving benefits which arise when similar businesses are located near each other

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Financial economies

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when the unit costs of a business falls as it grows because it is more able to negotiate better interest rates with its bank

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intermediate goods

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products that are made to be used as part of another larger product

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Labour intensive

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where the output of a business is produced using a larger proportion of workers than machinery

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labour relations diseconomies

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diseconomies of scale because a businesses employees are more likely to take industrial action to get pay rises

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long run

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A period of time where all factors of production are variable

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long run average cost

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the cost of making one unit when all factors of production are variable

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managerial economies

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economies of scale as a result of a business employing specialist managers, who will be more efficient

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market sales

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the percentage of industry sales madd by one firm in that industry

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market share maximisation

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an objective of a business where they are trying to be the largest firm in that industry

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minimum efficient scale

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the smallest size that a business can be and still and still be at the lowest point of its average cost curve

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normal profit

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the minimum amount of profit required by the entrepreneur to stop them from moving industry. It is also known as the opportunity cost of the entrepreneur

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optimum scale

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There size of a businsess that minimises its unit costs in the long run

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outsourcing economies

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economies of scale as a result of the business being able to save money by contracting outside companies to undertake a part of its production process

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purchasing economies

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economies of scale as a result of the business being able to buy stock in bulk in order to get cos reductions

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risk bearing economies

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economies of scale as a result of a business being able to spread the risks of its operations over a greater number of products

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sales revenue

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the amount of money coming into a business by selling its products

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Sales revenue maximisation

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an object of a business where they are tying to achieve the highest possible amount of products sold

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short run

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A period of time where at least one factor of production is fixed

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specialisation

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the act of concentrating on one or a small number of things in order to get good at them

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support services economies

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economies of sales because other businesses set up near the business in order to provide it with services

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surplus output

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the extra output created in specialisation that we do not need for ourselves

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surplus value

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the different between the cost of producing a product and the price consumers are willing to pay, which workers create but are not paid for

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survival

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an objective of a business where they are trying to achieve just enough profit to keep them in business

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technical economies

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economies of scale as a result of a business being able to buy better machinery as it grow

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