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Optimization

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Everyone chooses their optimal alternative

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Equilibrium

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No Individual player has an incentive to change his actions in this scenario

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Empiricism

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Using Data to find answers to interesting questions

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Ommited variables

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An ommited variable is causaly related to a situation and must be taken into account

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Reverse Causality

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To Variables are Causalated but in the reverse order one expected

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Positive Economics

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Describes and Explains what actually happens in a market

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Normative

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Describes and explains how markets should really behave

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Budget line

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The budget line descsribes all posible consumption bundles that exhaust the consumers budget

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Completeness principle

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A consumer is never uncertain about what bundle of products he should buy (although he can be indifferent between bundles)

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Monotinicity principle

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Consumers preffer more products over less products of the same type

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Convexity principle

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Consumer preffer averages over extremes (A+B is better than 2A or 2B)

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Utility function

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The Utility function assigns a number to a consumption bundle that shows the consumers benefit of buying the bundle

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Marginal utility (MU)

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Gain in utility per unit (the partial derivative of utility with respect to the product)

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Marginal rate of substitution (MRS)

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The consumers willingness to replace consumption of product A through consumption of product B -(MU of A / MU of B)

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Indifference curve

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Curve of consumption bundles where consumers are indifferent between the bundles because they have the same utility, the slope od the inderence curve is the MRS

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Price elasticity of demand

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The percentage change in demand in relation to a 1% change in price (The slope of the demand function or the percentage change of demand divided by the percentage change in price)

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Values of the Price elasticity of demand

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  1. Between 0 and 1: Inelastic
  2. Higher than 1 Elastic
  3. Unit elastic
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Income elasticity of demand

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The responsiveness of demand of a product to a 1% change in income (percentage change in demand divided by percentage change in income)

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Values of the Income elasticity of demand

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  1. More than 0: Normal good->As income increases demand increases too
  2. Less than 0: Inferior Good-> As income increases demand decreases (bus rides)
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Cross elasticity of demand

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percentage change in demand for product a divided by percentage change in demand for product b

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Values of the Cross elasticity of demand

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> 0: Substitutes
0: Independend
<0: Complements

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Characteristics of Perfectly competitive markets

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  1. Fragmentation: Each player on the market is so small that he can´t influence the price
  2. Undiferentiadted/homogenous products: consumers persieve products identical regardless to who manufactured them
  3. Consumers have perfect information about competitors prices ->Transactions always occur at the market price
  4. Buyers and sellers are price takers
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Profit under perfect competition

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Each firm trys to maximize profits (pi)

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Marginal revenue

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Absolute change in revenue due to a change in quantity (derivative of the revenue function with respect to quantity)

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Marginal cost
Absolute change in costs due to a change in quantity (derivative of the cost function with respect to quantity)
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Profit maximization in perfect markets
pi(q)=R(q)-C(q) / the first derivative of pi=0 and the second deriavative is negative
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Why do Marginal Cost increase?
1. Scarce Factors: It is harder to increase efficiency close to the PPC 2. High Demand drives up prices causing inefficient firms to enter the market, decreasing average MC
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When do companys maximize profits in perfect markets?
When price=marginal cost and the SOC is negative
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Production function
Shows the outputs a company can produce given input goods q(x1, x2)
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Optimal input combination
The optimal constrainted or unconstrainted combination of inputs that results in the highest possible production level
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Isocosts
Set of all possible production inputs for a firm that have the same cost
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Shutdown condition
If profit - quasi fixed cost is less than 0 the firm would not produce
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Consumer surplus
The monetary gain of consumers as they can puruchase goods at market price that is lower as some were willing to pay
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Producer surplus
Monetary gain of producers as the equilibrium price is higher than the price they were willing to sell at
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Social wellfare
Consumer surplus + Producer surplus (Kaldor Hicks and Pareto Efficient)
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Taxes
Create a DWL of Wellfare as the supply curve shifts to the left (up) and decreases quantitiy sold and increases price. This decreases the area of total wellfare
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Subsidy
Creates a DWL as the government has to pay producers the subsidy*quantity_sold
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Marginal private cost (MPC)
The cost of production or purchase of a good to the producer
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Marginal Social Cost (MSC)
The cost of the product to the entire society including the producer
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Marginal external cost (MEC)
Cost of producing each unit to people other than the producer
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Negative externality
We only covered negative externality of production
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Negativ externality of production
The Social cost is higher than the private cost, therefore there is a DWL. This can be fixed by a tax equal to the MEC (e.g. Cigarettes)
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Positive Externality
We only covered positive externality of consumption
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Positive externality of consumption
The social benefit is higher than the personal benefit, therefore there is a DWL or potential wellfare gain. The government can impose a subsidy=MEB to increase the gain
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MPB
Marginal private benefit
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MSB
Marginal social Benefit
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MEB
Marginal external benefit
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Monopoly
There is a single seller
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Profit for a Monopolist
1. pi(q)=R(q)-C(q) 2. derivative of pi(q)=0 3. 2nd derivate of pi(q) is negative 4. Insert q into the demand function
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Monopolies: Dynamic Aspects
Monopolies may increase incentives to innovate
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Natural Monopolies:
High Fixed Costs cause all but one supplier to drop out of the market (DB)
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Benefits of Natural Monopolies
The network effect may render a natural monopoly optimal
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Price Discrimination
May cause increases in efficiency but also exploit consumers
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First Degree Price Discrimination
Each Unit is sold at the maximum price the consumer is willing to pay, CB is zero but there is no DWL
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Second Degree Price Discrimination
Consumers are grouped according to their demand and their price is the group price (Quantity Discounts)
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Third Degree Price Discrimination
Consumers are grouped in their wilingness to pay and prices are set for eachh group (student / senior prices)
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Game Theory
Study of Multiperson Decision making
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Strictly Dominant Strategy
A strictly dominant strategy yields a higher payoff in all circumstances/regardless of the opponents choice
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Weakly Dominant Strategy
A weakly Dominant Strategy yields a higher or equal payoff in all circumstances/regardless of the opponents choice
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Pareto Efficiency
A situation where no player can increase his utility without decreasing the utility of another player
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Kaldor-Hicks Efficency
A situation where there is the highest overall utility
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Nash Equilibrium
No player can imporve his utility by deviating if the other player stick to their strategy (use the underlying technique)
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Mixed Strategies
Players assign probabilities to choices so that the other player is indifferent between his strategies
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Infinite horizon
The number of repetitions is unknown (Colaborative outcomes may occur)
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Grim Trigger Strategies
A player always plays colaborative until the other competes once, then he always chooses to compete
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Characteristics of Experimental economics
1. Simplicity and replicability 2. Use of monetary incentives 3. No Deception by the game makers 4. Participants may not communicate
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Purposes of economic experiments
1. Testing Hypothesis 2. Searching for new economic hypothesis 3. Helping Politicians to make policies
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What motivates people to deviate from selfishness?
Altruism, Efficiency concerns, Positive reciprocity, Negative reciprocity, Inequality aversion, Inequity aversion
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Altruism
Kindness, likes to help others
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Efficiency concerns
Want to increase the sum of total payoffs
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Positive reciprocity
Respond positively to an positive act
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Negative reciprocity
Respond negative to a negative act
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Inequity aversion
Wants to achieve fair outcomes
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Inequality aversion
Wants to achieve equal outcomes
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Dictator Game
Player A splits 100€ and Player B has to accept the proposed split
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Ultimatum Game
Player A splits 100€ and Player B can accept the proposed split or reject it
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Investment Game
A trustor gets 10€ and decides if he gives any money to the trustee who can multiply it and give any amount back
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Characteristics of public goods
Non-rivalry in consumption: Many people can use it at the same time Non-excludability: People who didnt pay cant be excluded from usage
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Behavourial economics
Atempts to increase the explanatory and predictive accuracy of Experimental economics. It is positive (What do people actually do? ) as opposed to normative (What should people do? )
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Non-Standart prefferences in behavioural economics
- Time Preference - Risk Preference - Social Preference
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Bounded rationality
When people have behavioural biases
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Behavioural biases
Not acting like a homo economicus
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Allais Paradox
Small probabilities are overweighted and big are underweighted
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Asian Disease Experiment
On average people will take gains but are risk seeking for avoiding losses
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Prospect Theory
- Gains / losses are evaluated relative to a reference point | - People are risk averse for gains and risk seeking for losses
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Fraiming Effect
People are susceptible to manipulation through phrasing (save/die contrast)
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Transivity principle
If a consumer prefferes x to y and y to z he also prefferes x to z

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