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1
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Marginal cost

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Cost to produce one additional unit

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2
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Cost-benefit principle

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Actions should only be taken if benefits outweigh costs

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3
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Marginal benefit

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Maximum amount a consumer is willing to pay

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4
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Ppf

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Max amount 2 goods/services can be produced at once

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5
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Law of demand

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Price increases demand decreases vice versa

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6
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Inferior good

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Decreased demand when income is high

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7
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Normal good

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Income and demand increase together

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8
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Luxury goods

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Buy more of when income increases

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9
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Interdependence

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Firms rely on eachother

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10
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Equilibrium

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Supply and demand meet

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11
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Shortage

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Demand exceeds quantity

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12
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Surplus

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Quantity exceeds demand

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13
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Positive elasticity

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Income increases so does purchasing

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14
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Negative elasticity

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Decreased demand when price increases

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15
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Elasticity equal to 0

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Inelastic

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16
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Elasticity equal to 1+

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Elastic

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17
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Economic burden

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How tax is shared

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18
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Subsidy

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Benefit given

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19
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Tax

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Govt regulated money

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20
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Burden of tax

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Who pays

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21
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Free market

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Prices based on supply and demand

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22
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Positive analysis

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Analysis based on facts and data

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23
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Normative analysis

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Analysis based on opinions and values

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24
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Reservation price

A

Max price willing to pay

25
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DWL

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Cost cure when supply ≠ demand

26
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Efficient outcome

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Maximized benefits

27
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Efficient quantity

28
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Rivalrous

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1 person using = 1 less for everyone else

29
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Excludable

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Limited to those who pay for it

30
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Non-excludable

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Available for everyone

31
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Private

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Excludable and rivalrous

32
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Public

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Non excludable non rivalrous

33
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Competitive market price

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Similar pricing to others

34
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Derived demand

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Demand as a result of another variables demand

35
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Labour supply

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Total hours willing to work

36
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Mrp

A

Revenue of one additional unit

37
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Competitive labour market

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Wage rate determined by supply and demand

38
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Profit maximizing firm

39
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Market power

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Ability to manipulate prices above competitive levels

40
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Short run

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1 thing fixed while others vary

41
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Long run

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No fixed factors

42
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Single price monopolist

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Must sell each unit of its good for the same price

43
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Perfectly competitive

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All suppliers are equal and so is supply and demand

44
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Positive profit

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Earning more revenue than total costs

45
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Free entry

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Can enter if they see good opportunity

46
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Implicit costs

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Variables, opportunities

47
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Explicit costs

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Out of pocket fixed costs

48
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Atc

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Relationship between cost per unit and level of output

49
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Economic profit

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Tr-explicit and implicit

50
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Perfect price discrimination

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Charging each customer the max theyre willing to pay

51
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Nash equilibrium

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Best response based off current knowledge

52
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Prisoner dilemma

A

Nash eq example

53
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Sealed bids

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Bids made w/o knowing others

54
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Cooperative outcome

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Most mutual benefit

55
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Payoff matrix

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Diagram of all possibilities

56
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Dominant strategy

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Best option regardless of opponent

57
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Tragedy of commons

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Depletion of shared resource, due to over exploitation

58
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Willingness to pay

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How much they expect to pay

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