This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 18 of N. Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics, 9th Edition relating to factor markets. It discusses the derived demand for factors of production from firms' production decisions. Labor demand depends on firms' marginal productivity of labor and profit maximization. The demand and supply of labor determines equilibrium wages. Immigration can impact wages for different types of workers. Equilibrium rental prices for land and capital also equal their marginal productivity. Productivity growth has historically driven increases in real wages over time.
The document discusses the costs of production for a firm. It provides two examples:
1) Farmer Jack's wheat production, which shows how costs like labor wages and land rent contribute to total costs. Marginal product and costs are defined.
2) A general example of fixed, variable, and total costs. It shows how average costs like AFC, AVC, and ATC change with quantity and can be U-shaped. Marginal cost is also examined.
This document discusses supply and demand. It begins by asking questions about factors that affect demand and supply, and how supply and demand determine price and quantity. It then defines markets and competition. The rest of the document discusses the concepts of demand, including demand schedules and curves. It explains individual demand versus market demand. It also discusses factors that can shift the demand curve, like number of buyers, income, prices of related goods, tastes, and expectations. Similarly, it covers the concepts of supply, including supply schedules and curves, as well as factors that shift the supply curve, like input prices, technology, number of sellers, and expectations. In summary, it provides an overview of the key microeconomic concepts of supply, demand,
Mankiew chapter 7 Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of MarketsAbd ELRahman ALFar
What is consumer surplus? How is it related to the demand curve?
What is producer surplus? How is it related to the supply curve?
Do markets produce a desirable allocation of resources? Or could the market outcome be improved upon?
This chapter discusses the costs of production for firms. It will examine what costs are included in a firm's total costs, how costs are related to the production process and output quantity, and the meaning of average and marginal costs. The chapter analyzes cost concepts like total, average, and marginal costs. It also discusses the relationship between costs and a firm's production function as well as the differences between fixed and variable costs.
1) The document discusses the characteristics and behavior of firms operating in perfectly competitive markets. It addresses factors like revenue, costs, and profit maximization.
2) A competitive firm is a price taker and will produce at the quantity where marginal revenue equals marginal cost, as this maximizes profits.
3) The marginal cost curve represents the firm's supply curve - at a higher price, the profit-maximizing quantity supplied increases as costs are covered at a greater output level.
measuring the cost of living
Consumer Price Index
How the CPI Is Calculated
Problems with the CPI
Contrasting the CPI and GDP Deflator
Correcting Variables for Inflation:
This chapter discusses how government policies like price controls and taxes can affect market outcomes. Price ceilings, which set a legal maximum price, typically cause shortages by creating a gap between the maximum price and the market equilibrium price. Price floors, which set a legal minimum price, typically cause surpluses by creating a gap between the minimum price and the market equilibrium price. Taxes can be levied on buyers or sellers, but they have similar effects by driving a wedge between the price buyers pay and sellers receive. The incidence of a tax, or how the burden is shared, depends on the elasticities of supply and demand.
Marginal cost is the increase in total cost from producing one more unit of output. It is usually rising as quantity increases due to diminishing marginal productivity. Average total cost is total cost divided by quantity and is typically U-shaped as initially fixed costs are spread over more units but variable costs eventually increase faster than output. Understanding costs like marginal, average, fixed and variable helps firms determine optimal production levels to maximize profits.
The document discusses the costs of production for a firm. It provides two examples:
1) Farmer Jack's wheat production, which shows how costs like labor wages and land rent contribute to total costs. Marginal product and costs are defined.
2) A general example of fixed, variable, and total costs. It shows how average costs like AFC, AVC, and ATC change with quantity and can be U-shaped. Marginal cost is also examined.
This document discusses supply and demand. It begins by asking questions about factors that affect demand and supply, and how supply and demand determine price and quantity. It then defines markets and competition. The rest of the document discusses the concepts of demand, including demand schedules and curves. It explains individual demand versus market demand. It also discusses factors that can shift the demand curve, like number of buyers, income, prices of related goods, tastes, and expectations. Similarly, it covers the concepts of supply, including supply schedules and curves, as well as factors that shift the supply curve, like input prices, technology, number of sellers, and expectations. In summary, it provides an overview of the key microeconomic concepts of supply, demand,
Mankiew chapter 7 Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of MarketsAbd ELRahman ALFar
What is consumer surplus? How is it related to the demand curve?
What is producer surplus? How is it related to the supply curve?
Do markets produce a desirable allocation of resources? Or could the market outcome be improved upon?
This chapter discusses the costs of production for firms. It will examine what costs are included in a firm's total costs, how costs are related to the production process and output quantity, and the meaning of average and marginal costs. The chapter analyzes cost concepts like total, average, and marginal costs. It also discusses the relationship between costs and a firm's production function as well as the differences between fixed and variable costs.
1) The document discusses the characteristics and behavior of firms operating in perfectly competitive markets. It addresses factors like revenue, costs, and profit maximization.
2) A competitive firm is a price taker and will produce at the quantity where marginal revenue equals marginal cost, as this maximizes profits.
3) The marginal cost curve represents the firm's supply curve - at a higher price, the profit-maximizing quantity supplied increases as costs are covered at a greater output level.
measuring the cost of living
Consumer Price Index
How the CPI Is Calculated
Problems with the CPI
Contrasting the CPI and GDP Deflator
Correcting Variables for Inflation:
This chapter discusses how government policies like price controls and taxes can affect market outcomes. Price ceilings, which set a legal maximum price, typically cause shortages by creating a gap between the maximum price and the market equilibrium price. Price floors, which set a legal minimum price, typically cause surpluses by creating a gap between the minimum price and the market equilibrium price. Taxes can be levied on buyers or sellers, but they have similar effects by driving a wedge between the price buyers pay and sellers receive. The incidence of a tax, or how the burden is shared, depends on the elasticities of supply and demand.
Marginal cost is the increase in total cost from producing one more unit of output. It is usually rising as quantity increases due to diminishing marginal productivity. Average total cost is total cost divided by quantity and is typically U-shaped as initially fixed costs are spread over more units but variable costs eventually increase faster than output. Understanding costs like marginal, average, fixed and variable helps firms determine optimal production levels to maximize profits.
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This document provides an overview of firms operating in perfectly competitive markets. It defines key concepts such as marginal revenue, total revenue, and average revenue. It explains that for competitive firms, marginal revenue is equal to price. The document also discusses how competitive firms determine the profit-maximizing quantity of output by producing where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. It describes the factors that would lead a competitive firm to shut down in the short run or exit the market in the long run. Finally, it explains how the market supply curve is derived by summing the individual supply curves of the many competitive firms in the industry.
This document provides an overview of a macroeconomic model that examines national income. It discusses how total output is determined by factors of production like capital and labor. It then explains how factor prices, like wages and rental rates, are set through supply and demand in factor markets. The model shows how total national income is distributed to factor payments. It also outlines the components of aggregate demand, like consumption, investment, and government spending, and how their equilibrium in the goods market determines total output.
The document discusses the characteristics and behavior of firms in a perfectly competitive market. It defines a competitive market as having many small firms and buyers, homogeneous products, and free entry and exit. In the short run, individual firms maximize profits by producing where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. In the long run, firms enter and exit the market until price equals minimum average total cost and profits are zero. The market supply curve is determined by the marginal cost curves of individual firms.
This document discusses the costs of taxation according to microeconomic principles. It explains that a tax reduces consumer surplus, producer surplus, and total surplus by creating a deadweight loss. The size of the deadweight loss depends on the price elasticities of supply and demand - more elastic demand or supply leads to a larger deadweight loss. Increasing the size of an existing tax causes the deadweight loss to rise more than proportionately and causes tax revenue to initially rise and then fall, following a Laffer curve pattern.
This document outlines 10 principles of economics from the textbook "Principles of Economics" by N. Gregory Mankiw. It discusses fundamental lessons about individual decision making, interactions among people, and the economy as a whole. Specifically, it summarizes that people face trade-offs and respond to incentives; markets are generally good but governments can remedy failures; productivity drives living standards; and inflation results from increasing the money supply, creating short-run trade-offs with unemployment.
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This chapter discusses monopoly markets. It begins by defining a monopoly as a sole seller of a product without close substitutes. Monopolies arise due to barriers to entry, including ownership of key resources, government protections like patents, or natural monopolies where large scale production is more efficient. As the sole seller, a monopoly faces a downward sloping demand curve and is a price maker, unlike competitive firms which are price takers. The chapter then analyzes how monopolies determine price and quantity to maximize profits by producing at the quantity where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. This results in the monopoly price exceeding average cost and the firm earning economic profits.
This document discusses monopolies and monopoly power. It defines a monopoly as a sole seller in a market that faces a downward-sloping demand curve. Monopolies maximize profits by producing where marginal cost equals marginal revenue. Unlike competitive firms, monopolies set price above marginal cost, resulting in deadweight loss. Governments address monopoly power through antitrust laws, price regulation, or public ownership.
The document discusses consumer surplus, producer surplus, and how markets allocate resources efficiently. It defines:
- Consumer surplus as what consumers are willing to pay minus the price paid, and how it relates to the demand curve.
- Producer surplus as the price received minus costs of production, and how it relates to the supply curve.
- An efficient allocation as one that maximizes total surplus by having goods consumed by those valuing them most and produced by lowest cost producers.
The document evaluates an equilibrium in terms of efficiency using demand and supply curves to show buyers and sellers that transact value the good most and have lowest costs.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 17 of N. Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics, 9th Edition relating to oligopoly. It discusses how oligopolies have only a few sellers offering similar products, leading to interdependent decision-making that can be modeled using game theory. Under oligopoly, firms face tensions between cooperation to act like a monopoly and self-interest. The document outlines different oligopoly models and equilibrium concepts, such as duopoly, collusion, cartels and the Nash equilibrium.
The document discusses the basic economic problem of scarcity and opportunity cost. It defines the key concepts of needs and wants, and explains that while needs are necessities, wants are pleasurable but not necessary goods. Resources used to produce goods and services are finite but human wants are unlimited, creating an economic problem. The concept of opportunity cost, which is the next best alternative forgone when making a choice due to scarce resources, is introduced and illustrated using a production possibilities frontier diagram showing the tradeoffs between producing two goods.
Monopolistic competition is an imperfect market structure between pure monopoly and perfect competition. It is characterized by many firms producing differentiated products and free entry and exit. In the long run, firms will enter and exit the market until economic profits are zero, but monopolistically competitive firms still operate with excess capacity and charge prices above marginal costs. This results in deadweight loss but regulating product differentiation would be difficult. Advertising and brand names are used by firms to differentiate products but their effects on competition and consumer choice are debated.
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1. The document discusses the concept of elasticity and how it can help understand how variables respond to changes in other variables.
2. It provides examples of different types of elasticities including price elasticity of demand, which measures how quantity demanded responds to changes in price. Demand is more elastic when good substitutes exist, a good is a luxury, the good is narrowly defined, or in the long run.
3. The slope of the demand curve is related to elasticity, with flatter curves indicating more elastic demand. Demand can be perfectly inelastic, inelastic, unit elastic, elastic, or
Policymakers debate whether monetary and fiscal policy should be active or passive in response to economic fluctuations, and whether policy should be set by rule or at the discretion of officials. Arguments for active policy include reducing economic hardship during recessions, while critics argue policies have long and variable lags. Policy rules aim to increase credibility and reduce time inconsistency problems, like central banks targeting an inflation rate or following the Taylor rule. The optimal approach remains an open debate among economists.
This chapter discusses elasticity, which measures how responsive one variable is to changes in another variable. It focuses on price elasticity of demand, which measures how much quantity demanded responds to changes in price. Price elasticity is calculated as the percentage change in quantity divided by the percentage change in price. Examples are used to illustrate factors that determine whether demand is elastic or inelastic, such as availability of substitutes. The elasticity also depends on whether a good is a necessity. The chapter explores how elasticity is related to the slope of the demand curve and total revenue.
The document discusses different types of unemployment. It defines natural rate unemployment as unemployment that persists in the long-run, while cyclical unemployment refers to short-term fluctuations around the natural rate. It also examines how the unemployment rate is calculated monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics through surveys. Common causes of unemployment include the natural time needed for job searching (frictional unemployment), minimum wage laws pricing some workers out of jobs, unions negotiating above-market wages, and efficiency wages that aim to increase productivity.
Consumer Behavior: Income and Substitution Effects
The Consumer’s Reaction to a Change in Income
Engel Curve or Engel’s Law
The Consumer’s Reaction to a Change in Price
The Consumer’s Demand Function
Cobb-Douglas Utility Function
The Slutsky Substitution Effect
The Hicks substitution effect
The document discusses the budget constraint and optimal consumer choice. It begins by explaining the budget constraint conceptually and mathematically, showing how a consumer's income and the prices of goods determine which bundles of goods are affordable. It then shows how consumers can determine their optimal bundle by finding the point where an indifference curve is tangent to the budget constraint. This ensures the marginal rate of substitution between goods equals the relative price ratio. Finally, it explains how changes in prices or income can be decomposed into substitution and income effects, with substitution effects occurring when relative prices change and income effects when real income changes.
Externalities are spill-over effects from production and consumption that are not compensated for through market transactions. They can be positive or negative and cause market failure if social costs and benefits are not accounted for. Private costs and benefits differ from social costs and benefits due to externalities. For example, with negative externalities, social costs exceed private costs, leading to overproduction. Economists value externalities using methods like shadow pricing and willingness to pay. Governments consider net social benefits when deciding between projects to maximize returns to society.
This document discusses price elasticity of demand and supply. It defines price elasticity of demand as the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price. Price elasticity measures how responsive consumers are to price changes. Demand is more elastic when good substitutes exist, when the good is a small part of the budget, or over longer periods of time as consumers can adjust. Price elasticity of supply is defined similarly, measuring producer responsiveness to price changes. Supply becomes more elastic over longer periods as producers can adjust production. The document also discusses income elasticity of demand and cross-price elasticity.
Chapter 02 Thinking Like an Economist Business Economices.pptxTanveerAhmed272451
The document is a chapter from N. Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics textbook. It discusses how economists use the scientific method to develop theories, collect data, analyze results, and test theories. It provides examples of economic models like the circular flow diagram and production possibilities frontier that help simplify and explain economic concepts. The chapter also discusses how economists take different approaches based on their values and scientific judgments, and provides propositions about economic issues that most economists agree on.
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This document provides an overview of firms operating in perfectly competitive markets. It defines key concepts such as marginal revenue, total revenue, and average revenue. It explains that for competitive firms, marginal revenue is equal to price. The document also discusses how competitive firms determine the profit-maximizing quantity of output by producing where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. It describes the factors that would lead a competitive firm to shut down in the short run or exit the market in the long run. Finally, it explains how the market supply curve is derived by summing the individual supply curves of the many competitive firms in the industry.
This document provides an overview of a macroeconomic model that examines national income. It discusses how total output is determined by factors of production like capital and labor. It then explains how factor prices, like wages and rental rates, are set through supply and demand in factor markets. The model shows how total national income is distributed to factor payments. It also outlines the components of aggregate demand, like consumption, investment, and government spending, and how their equilibrium in the goods market determines total output.
The document discusses the characteristics and behavior of firms in a perfectly competitive market. It defines a competitive market as having many small firms and buyers, homogeneous products, and free entry and exit. In the short run, individual firms maximize profits by producing where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. In the long run, firms enter and exit the market until price equals minimum average total cost and profits are zero. The market supply curve is determined by the marginal cost curves of individual firms.
This document discusses the costs of taxation according to microeconomic principles. It explains that a tax reduces consumer surplus, producer surplus, and total surplus by creating a deadweight loss. The size of the deadweight loss depends on the price elasticities of supply and demand - more elastic demand or supply leads to a larger deadweight loss. Increasing the size of an existing tax causes the deadweight loss to rise more than proportionately and causes tax revenue to initially rise and then fall, following a Laffer curve pattern.
This document outlines 10 principles of economics from the textbook "Principles of Economics" by N. Gregory Mankiw. It discusses fundamental lessons about individual decision making, interactions among people, and the economy as a whole. Specifically, it summarizes that people face trade-offs and respond to incentives; markets are generally good but governments can remedy failures; productivity drives living standards; and inflation results from increasing the money supply, creating short-run trade-offs with unemployment.
Monopoly_Chapter 15_Macroeconomics_ Mankew power point slidesdjalex035
This chapter discusses monopoly markets. It begins by defining a monopoly as a sole seller of a product without close substitutes. Monopolies arise due to barriers to entry, including ownership of key resources, government protections like patents, or natural monopolies where large scale production is more efficient. As the sole seller, a monopoly faces a downward sloping demand curve and is a price maker, unlike competitive firms which are price takers. The chapter then analyzes how monopolies determine price and quantity to maximize profits by producing at the quantity where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. This results in the monopoly price exceeding average cost and the firm earning economic profits.
This document discusses monopolies and monopoly power. It defines a monopoly as a sole seller in a market that faces a downward-sloping demand curve. Monopolies maximize profits by producing where marginal cost equals marginal revenue. Unlike competitive firms, monopolies set price above marginal cost, resulting in deadweight loss. Governments address monopoly power through antitrust laws, price regulation, or public ownership.
The document discusses consumer surplus, producer surplus, and how markets allocate resources efficiently. It defines:
- Consumer surplus as what consumers are willing to pay minus the price paid, and how it relates to the demand curve.
- Producer surplus as the price received minus costs of production, and how it relates to the supply curve.
- An efficient allocation as one that maximizes total surplus by having goods consumed by those valuing them most and produced by lowest cost producers.
The document evaluates an equilibrium in terms of efficiency using demand and supply curves to show buyers and sellers that transact value the good most and have lowest costs.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 17 of N. Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics, 9th Edition relating to oligopoly. It discusses how oligopolies have only a few sellers offering similar products, leading to interdependent decision-making that can be modeled using game theory. Under oligopoly, firms face tensions between cooperation to act like a monopoly and self-interest. The document outlines different oligopoly models and equilibrium concepts, such as duopoly, collusion, cartels and the Nash equilibrium.
The document discusses the basic economic problem of scarcity and opportunity cost. It defines the key concepts of needs and wants, and explains that while needs are necessities, wants are pleasurable but not necessary goods. Resources used to produce goods and services are finite but human wants are unlimited, creating an economic problem. The concept of opportunity cost, which is the next best alternative forgone when making a choice due to scarce resources, is introduced and illustrated using a production possibilities frontier diagram showing the tradeoffs between producing two goods.
Monopolistic competition is an imperfect market structure between pure monopoly and perfect competition. It is characterized by many firms producing differentiated products and free entry and exit. In the long run, firms will enter and exit the market until economic profits are zero, but monopolistically competitive firms still operate with excess capacity and charge prices above marginal costs. This results in deadweight loss but regulating product differentiation would be difficult. Advertising and brand names are used by firms to differentiate products but their effects on competition and consumer choice are debated.
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1. The document discusses the concept of elasticity and how it can help understand how variables respond to changes in other variables.
2. It provides examples of different types of elasticities including price elasticity of demand, which measures how quantity demanded responds to changes in price. Demand is more elastic when good substitutes exist, a good is a luxury, the good is narrowly defined, or in the long run.
3. The slope of the demand curve is related to elasticity, with flatter curves indicating more elastic demand. Demand can be perfectly inelastic, inelastic, unit elastic, elastic, or
Policymakers debate whether monetary and fiscal policy should be active or passive in response to economic fluctuations, and whether policy should be set by rule or at the discretion of officials. Arguments for active policy include reducing economic hardship during recessions, while critics argue policies have long and variable lags. Policy rules aim to increase credibility and reduce time inconsistency problems, like central banks targeting an inflation rate or following the Taylor rule. The optimal approach remains an open debate among economists.
This chapter discusses elasticity, which measures how responsive one variable is to changes in another variable. It focuses on price elasticity of demand, which measures how much quantity demanded responds to changes in price. Price elasticity is calculated as the percentage change in quantity divided by the percentage change in price. Examples are used to illustrate factors that determine whether demand is elastic or inelastic, such as availability of substitutes. The elasticity also depends on whether a good is a necessity. The chapter explores how elasticity is related to the slope of the demand curve and total revenue.
The document discusses different types of unemployment. It defines natural rate unemployment as unemployment that persists in the long-run, while cyclical unemployment refers to short-term fluctuations around the natural rate. It also examines how the unemployment rate is calculated monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics through surveys. Common causes of unemployment include the natural time needed for job searching (frictional unemployment), minimum wage laws pricing some workers out of jobs, unions negotiating above-market wages, and efficiency wages that aim to increase productivity.
Consumer Behavior: Income and Substitution Effects
The Consumer’s Reaction to a Change in Income
Engel Curve or Engel’s Law
The Consumer’s Reaction to a Change in Price
The Consumer’s Demand Function
Cobb-Douglas Utility Function
The Slutsky Substitution Effect
The Hicks substitution effect
The document discusses the budget constraint and optimal consumer choice. It begins by explaining the budget constraint conceptually and mathematically, showing how a consumer's income and the prices of goods determine which bundles of goods are affordable. It then shows how consumers can determine their optimal bundle by finding the point where an indifference curve is tangent to the budget constraint. This ensures the marginal rate of substitution between goods equals the relative price ratio. Finally, it explains how changes in prices or income can be decomposed into substitution and income effects, with substitution effects occurring when relative prices change and income effects when real income changes.
Externalities are spill-over effects from production and consumption that are not compensated for through market transactions. They can be positive or negative and cause market failure if social costs and benefits are not accounted for. Private costs and benefits differ from social costs and benefits due to externalities. For example, with negative externalities, social costs exceed private costs, leading to overproduction. Economists value externalities using methods like shadow pricing and willingness to pay. Governments consider net social benefits when deciding between projects to maximize returns to society.
This document discusses price elasticity of demand and supply. It defines price elasticity of demand as the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price. Price elasticity measures how responsive consumers are to price changes. Demand is more elastic when good substitutes exist, when the good is a small part of the budget, or over longer periods of time as consumers can adjust. Price elasticity of supply is defined similarly, measuring producer responsiveness to price changes. Supply becomes more elastic over longer periods as producers can adjust production. The document also discusses income elasticity of demand and cross-price elasticity.
Chapter 02 Thinking Like an Economist Business Economices.pptxTanveerAhmed272451
The document is a chapter from N. Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics textbook. It discusses how economists use the scientific method to develop theories, collect data, analyze results, and test theories. It provides examples of economic models like the circular flow diagram and production possibilities frontier that help simplify and explain economic concepts. The chapter also discusses how economists take different approaches based on their values and scientific judgments, and provides propositions about economic issues that most economists agree on.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 23 of N. Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Macroeconomics, 9th Edition. It defines GDP as the total market value of final goods and services produced within an economy in a given period of time. GDP can be measured by total income (sum of wages, profits, interest and rent) or by total expenditure (sum of consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports). It also distinguishes between nominal GDP measured at current prices and real GDP measured in constant prices to account for inflation.
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 23 of N. Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics, 9th Edition relating to measuring a nation's income. It introduces GDP as a measure of total income and expenditure in an economy. GDP is broken down into consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports. The concepts of nominal GDP, real GDP, and GDP deflator are explained to distinguish GDP adjusted for inflation. A table and graph show real GDP growth in the US economy over the past 50 years, along with recessions that interrupted periods of growth.
This document provides an overview of Chapter 16 from Mankiw's Principles of Microeconomics textbook. The chapter objectives are outlined, which include explaining monopoly market structures and barriers to entry that allow monopolies to form. The document then discusses why monopolies arise due to barriers like monopoly resources, government regulation, and natural monopolies where large scale production leads to lower costs. It also examines how monopolies make production and pricing decisions, focusing on their downward sloping demand curve and the relationship between marginal revenue, price, and profit maximization.
Chapter 26 Saving, Investment, and the Financial System.pptxanisadiandraoktavian
This document summarizes key concepts from Chapter 26 of N. Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics, 9th Edition relating to the financial system. It discusses how financial institutions like markets and intermediaries help match savers and borrowers. It also covers accounting identities showing the relationship between saving, investment, and other macroeconomic variables. Finally, it introduces the market for loanable funds where interest rates clear the market.
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The document discusses how the internet has impacted human life. It began as a tool for research and luxury but has now become essential. The internet has both positive and negative effects. Positively, it has made communication and access to information easier. However, it has also made people dependent on social media sites. The internet has also transformed how we work, learn, shop, and socialize. It allows remote work and global businesses. Healthcare, education, and politics have all incorporated the internet. Overall, the internet has redefined computers and deeply impacted many aspects of modern life.
The document discusses macroeconomics and provides an overview of the US economy since the Great Depression. It summarizes that macroeconomists study inflation, recession, unemployment, and economic growth at an aggregate level. It then reviews key events in the US economy such as the Great Depression, stagflation in the 1970s, recessions in the 1980s and 1990s, the economic boom of the 1990s, and the Great Recession beginning in 2008. The document uses graphs and diagrams to illustrate macroeconomic concepts like GDP, inflation, recessions, and shifts in aggregate supply and demand.
This document provides an introduction to microeconomics concepts. It defines economics as the study of how society allocates scarce resources. It distinguishes microeconomics, which studies decision-making by individuals and small entities, from macroeconomics, which studies the economy as a whole. Some basic microeconomics concepts introduced include scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, factors of production, and graphs. It also discusses production possibilities curves and how they illustrate scarcity and opportunity costs.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in a Class 11 economics course on microeconomics and the theory of consumer behaviour. It discusses utility analysis, the consumer's budget set and budget line, demand curves, shifts and movements along demand curves, market demand, and elasticity of demand. The key topics are analyzed at the level of individual consumers and in aggregate for the overall market.
Economics project on Production Possibilty CurveNiraj Kumar
A full economics project for the first time ever. Economics project on PPC. PPC a topic from book. This project includes everything realted to PPC. This project had covered each and every corner of this topic.
The document summarizes an interview discussing ways to improve the yieldco model of financing renewable energy projects. It finds that yieldcos should focus on improving operating cost structure, driving down development and construction costs through synergies with developers, and enhancing asset lifetimes. A yieldco's value comes from dividend value, new asset purchases, reinvestment, operational efficiencies, and cost reductions shared with developers. Better financial modeling of these factors can provide a more compelling value proposition for yieldcos.
This document provides a syllabus and study material for the Economics class of Class XII in 2014-15. It outlines the course content, which is divided into two parts - Introductory Microeconomics and Introductory Macroeconomics. The Microeconomics section covers topics such as consumer behavior, producer behavior, market structures, and the introduction lesson. The introduction lesson defines key economic concepts such as scarcity, choice, opportunity cost and presents the production possibility curve. It also describes the three basic economic problems of what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce. The document provides sample questions for students and a test paper with questions from the introduction lesson.
This chapter discusses classical macroeconomic models and the concept of full employment. It covers:
1) How classical models assume wages and prices adjust to clear markets and achieve full employment.
2) The production function relationship between inputs like labor and capital and economic output.
3) How diminishing returns can occur when adding more of one input while holding others fixed.
4) How labor market equilibrium between supply and demand determines wages and employment.
Frugal Innovation: New Models of Innovation and Theoretical Development -- Dr...Yasser Bhatti
This document discusses frugal innovation. It summarizes research on two communities of innovators and entrepreneurs - a global social business incubator and a design program for extreme affordability. The research included analyzing business plans, conducting interviews, and observing a social entrepreneurship bootcamp. Frugal innovation is defined from different perspectives and as having the goals of affordability, adaptability, accessibility, and doing more with less. Examples are given of frugal surgical innovations in India that dramatically reduce healthcare costs. The document then discusses introducing a frugal surgical drill innovation into the UK healthcare system, estimating it could save 85-94% of costs compared to existing solutions.
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Delve into the world of STREETONOMICS, where a team of 7 enthusiasts embarks on a journey to understand unorganized markets. By engaging with a coffee street vendor and crafting questionnaires, this project uncovers valuable insights into consumer behavior and market dynamics in informal settings."
Falcon stands out as a top-tier P2P Invoice Discounting platform in India, bridging esteemed blue-chip companies and eager investors. Our goal is to transform the investment landscape in India by establishing a comprehensive destination for borrowers and investors with diverse profiles and needs, all while minimizing risk. What sets Falcon apart is the elimination of intermediaries such as commercial banks and depository institutions, allowing investors to enjoy higher yields.
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"Does Foreign Direct Investment Negatively Affect Preservation of Culture in the Global South? Case Studies in Thailand and Cambodia."
Do elements of globalization, such as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), negatively affect the ability of countries in the Global South to preserve their culture? This research aims to answer this question by employing a cross-sectional comparative case study analysis utilizing methods of difference. Thailand and Cambodia are compared as they are in the same region and have a similar culture. The metric of difference between Thailand and Cambodia is their ability to preserve their culture. This ability is operationalized by their respective attitudes towards FDI; Thailand imposes stringent regulations and limitations on FDI while Cambodia does not hesitate to accept most FDI and imposes fewer limitations. The evidence from this study suggests that FDI from globally influential countries with high gross domestic products (GDPs) (e.g. China, U.S.) challenges the ability of countries with lower GDPs (e.g. Cambodia) to protect their culture. Furthermore, the ability, or lack thereof, of the receiving countries to protect their culture is amplified by the existence and implementation of restrictive FDI policies imposed by their governments.
My study abroad in Bali, Indonesia, inspired this research topic as I noticed how globalization is changing the culture of its people. I learned their language and way of life which helped me understand the beauty and importance of cultural preservation. I believe we could all benefit from learning new perspectives as they could help us ideate solutions to contemporary issues and empathize with others.
Financial Assets: Debit vs Equity Securities.pptxWrito-Finance
financial assets represent claim for future benefit or cash. Financial assets are formed by establishing contracts between participants. These financial assets are used for collection of huge amounts of money for business purposes.
Two major Types: Debt Securities and Equity Securities.
Debt Securities are Also known as fixed-income securities or instruments. The type of assets is formed by establishing contracts between investor and issuer of the asset.
• The first type of Debit securities is BONDS. Bonds are issued by corporations and government (both local and national government).
• The second important type of Debit security is NOTES. Apart from similarities associated with notes and bonds, notes have shorter term maturity.
• The 3rd important type of Debit security is TRESURY BILLS. These securities have short-term ranging from three months, six months, and one year. Issuer of such securities are governments.
• Above discussed debit securities are mostly issued by governments and corporations. CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITS CDs are issued by Banks and Financial Institutions. Risk factor associated with CDs gets reduced when issued by reputable institutions or Banks.
Following are the risk attached with debt securities: Credit risk, interest rate risk and currency risk
There are no fixed maturity dates in such securities, and asset’s value is determined by company’s performance. There are two major types of equity securities: common stock and preferred stock.
Common Stock: These are simple equity securities and bear no complexities which the preferred stock bears. Holders of such securities or instrument have the voting rights when it comes to select the company’s board of director or the business decisions to be made.
Preferred Stock: Preferred stocks are sometime referred to as hybrid securities, because it contains elements of both debit security and equity security. Preferred stock confers ownership rights to security holder that is why it is equity instrument
<a href="https://www.writofinance.com/equity-securities-features-types-risk/" >Equity securities </a> as a whole is used for capital funding for companies. Companies have multiple expenses to cover. Potential growth of company is required in competitive market. So, these securities are used for capital generation, and then uses it for company’s growth.
Concluding remarks
Both are employed in business. Businesses are often established through debit securities, then what is the need for equity securities. Companies have to cover multiple expenses and expansion of business. They can also use equity instruments for repayment of debits. So, there are multiple uses for securities. As an investor, you need tools for analysis. Investment decisions are made by carefully analyzing the market. For better analysis of the stock market, investors often employ financial analysis of companies.
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