What is the 5 Shifters of Demand?
1. Tastes and Preferences 2. Number of Consumers 3. Price of Related Goods 4. Income 5. Future Expectations
MR=MC
What is the Profit Maximization Rule?
Characteristics of an Oligopoly
1. A few large producers 2. Identical or differentiated products 3. High Barriers of Entry 4. Control Over Price 5. Mutual Interdependence 6. Firms use Strategic Pricing
Unit 6 A situation in which the free-market fails to satisfy society's wants.
What is a Market Failure?
Price Ceiling
Maximum legal price a seller can charge for a product.
The additional cost of an additional output.
What is Marginal Cost?
1. Relatively Large number of sellers 2. Differentiated products 3. Little control over price 4. Easy Entry and Exit (low barriers of entry) 5. Uses Advertising
What is the Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition?
Unit 5 A firm that has a monopoly over all the labor in an area.
What is a Monopsony?
Subsidy
A government payment that supports a business or market; causes the supply of the good to increase.
The point at which P=AVC
What is the Shutdown Point?
What a monopoly is using when its MR line moves up to join its D line to become one.
What is Price Discrimination?
Unit 6 Something that meets these two criteria: 1. Non-exclusion 2. Shared Consumption (Non-rivalry)
What is a Public Good?
The Utility Maximizing Rule
(MUx)/(Px) = (MUy)/(Py)
Zero Economic Profit is being made.
What is Normal Profit?
ATC=D for a monopoly.
What is Fair Return?
Unit 6 Sales tax is an example of this kind of tax
What is a Regressive Tax?
The measurement of consumers' responsiveness to a change in price.
What is the Price Elasticity of Demand?
As variable resources (workers) are added to fixed resources (machinery, tools, etc.), the additional output produced from each new worker will eventually fall.
What is the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns?
What the government should do to increase the quantity produced by a monopoly when given the option of only either taxing the monopoly or subsidizing it.
What is subsidizing?
Unit 5 The demand for resources is determined by the products they help produce.
What is Derived Demand?