2. Unit 1: Introduction to Economics
Unit 2A: Demand
Unit 2B: Supply
Unit 3: Market Equilibrium
Unit 4: Elasticity
Unit 5: Taxes, Subsidy, and Price Control
Unit 6: Market Failure
Unit 7: Theory of Firms: Costs, Revenues, and Profits
Unit 8A: Theory of Firms: Perfect Competition and Monopoly
Unit 8B: Theory of Firms: Price Discrimination
Unit 9: Theory of Firms: Monopolistic Competition and Oligopolies
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4. Economics Course Companion Second Edition (Blink and
Dorton, Oxford)
Economics for the IB Diploma (Welker and Maley, Pearson)
The Good, the Bad, and the Economist (McGee, Cambridge)
Economics from the Global Perspective (Glanville, Glanville)
The IB Study Guide
Handouts and Lecture Slides (Go through the notes at the bottom
please)
The internet!
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5. Please:
Bring your text book, note book, pen, pencil, and eraser to class
Refrain from using your cell phone in class
Be on time and don’t miss classes
Hand in your homework, essays, and assignments on time (your
internal assessment depends on this)
Late submissions will not be entertained
Respect the classroom space, the subject, your fellow students, and
yourself
ASK QUESTIONS!
Think, question, argue
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6. Four Major Units:
Microeconomics (Grade 11 – Semester 1 and 2)
Macroeconomics
International Trade and Finance
Development Economics (Grade 11 – Semester 2)
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7. Differences between HL and SL
Two Papers in the SL and Three Papers in the HL
Paper 1 – Microeconomics and Macroeconomics (40% for SL and
30% for HL)
Paper 2 – International Economics and Development (40% for SL
and 30% for HL)
Paper 3 – HL extension topics like Theory of Firm (20%)
Calculators allowed in Paper 3 of HL only
Internal Assessment (A portfolio of 3 article analysis of 750 words
each over the two years)
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8. Internal Assessment and Formative Tests (20% for KIS Diploma)
Unit Quiz
Concept Test
Team Presentation
Homework Assignment
Article Analysis
Commentary
DRQ Analysis
Data Assignment
Internal Assessment Portfolio (IA) – 20% for IBDP specifically
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9. IB Internal Assessment (20% of your grade)
Three article analyses
Three different sources
Three different units
750 words
A demonstration of application of economic tools
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10. Introduction to Microeconomics
Scarcity, Choice, Opportunity Cost, PPF
Demand and Supply and Market Equilibrium
Price Mechanism and Market efficiency
Elasticity
Government Intervention and Price Controls
Market Failure
Theory of the Firm and Market Structures (HL Only)
Production
Pricing Mechanism
Law of Diminishing Returns
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11. Continuation of Theory of Firms from Semester 1 (HL only)
Monopolistic Competition
Oligopoly
Cost, Revenue and Profit
Economic Development (Unit 4)
Consequence of Growth and Barriers to Development
International Trade and Growth
Foreign Aid and National Debt
Free Markets and Government Intervention
Introduction to Keynesian and Austrian Economic Models.
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12. Any Questions?
If you’re having any difficulty please feel free to find me after class
hours.
Email or find me in the Social Science Department Office to set-up an
appointment.
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13. A Science or an Art?
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14. Economics – Greek, meaning “Rules of the Household”
Move from Feudalism to Capitalism in the 17th Century
Creation of money and capital from the Barter System
Creation of Banking Systems
In the late 18th Century, Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations)
postulated the foundations of modern economic thought.
“The Invisible Hand” – Liberty and self interest leads to the optimal
allocation of society's scarce resources
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15. EconStories
John Papola – Director
Russ Roberts – Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Created in the aftermath of the $700bn bailout of major US financial
institution by the US Government
John Keynes – “Father of Modern Macro” – The General Theory
Regulated markets and central planning
F. A. Hayek – “Father of Austrian Economics” – The Road to Serfdom
Laissez-faire economy (“Let it be” – AS 1776)
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16. Economists develop rudimentary models to represent the real world
Models abstract from irrelevant details and use simplifying
assumptions to facilitate analysis
Models are not perfect – they exist to help us directionally
understand changes to complex systems
Y = C + I + G + NX
Assumption of cetris parabis
Allows economists to analyze the effects of one part of the
economy (even though in reality many parts of the economy are
changing simultaneously)
Assumption of rational* behavior and optimization
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17. Two kinds of economic analysis
Positive Economics – The part of economics that studies how the
world actually works (the study of what *IS*) Descriptive
Normative Economics – The part of economics that studies how the
world *SHOULD* be. Prescriptive
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18. Lowering income taxes may increase the amount people save
Positive Statement
Taxes on middle income people should be lowered
Normative Statement
The best way to lower the budget deficit is to raise taxes
Mixed Statement
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19. Economics is Social Science:
A study of interaction between humans, our institutions and the
natural and social environment we inhabit
It is a HUMAN Science encompassing
Psychology, Mathematics, Environmental Science, History and
Finance.
Economics is the science of allocating scarce goods and services
ALLOCATION – Production (Supply) and Consumption (Demand)
SCARCE – Implies trade-offs (Opportunity Cost)
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20. Our resources are finite – our need and want is infinite
Includes natural and man-made goods and services
Examples?
LAND, LABOR, CAPITAL (Factors of Production)
Land resources – natural raw materials
Labor resources – human capital
Capital resources – tools, technology, and money
Allocation and distribution of these three resources led to
development of different schools of economic thought and systems
Abundant resources?
Creativity and entrepreneurship
Solar and wind power?
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21. The Basic Economic Questions:
What should be produced?
Food, toys, clothes, tools, financial services, entertainment, call
centers and BPOs (Business Process Outsourcing)
How should it be produced?
Labor intensive or capital intensive?
For whom should it be produced?
For domestic consumption or export?
For the affluent or for the common man?
The MARKET determines the answers to these questions.
There are FREE MARKETS and CENTRALLY PLANNED MARKETS
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22. A market is a place where buyers and sellers come together to engage
in exchanges with one another
Circular Flow of the Market
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Households
Firms
Labor MarketGoods Market
w
w
LS
LD
P
P
QS
QD
23. QUESTIONS – EE/IA/TOK:
Do we need central planning for teachers, farmers, police, military?
How does a free market ensure that “indispensable” jobs get done?
Is privatization more efficient?
How are wages determined in centrally planned economies?
What is better a FREE MARKET, or a CENTRALLY PLANNED MARKET?
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24. As a result of scarcity, choices have to be made.
When a choice is made, an alternative is foregone.
Definition: The opportunity cost of any action is the value of best
forgone alternative.
The TOTAL COST of any action is the DIRECT COST *plus* the
OPPORTUNITY COST
TC = DC + OC
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25. What is the cost of your KIS Education?
Direct Cost = Rs. 8.5L + Rs. 1.5L + Rs. 1L + Rs. 1L = Rs. 12L/year
Opportunity Cost?
Work at McDonalds – Earn a salary – Rs. 2L
Put the money in the bank and earn interest – Rs. 1L
Delivering pizzas for Dominoes – Rs. 1L
Total Cost?
Total Cost = Direct Cost + Opportunity Cost
TC = 12L + 3L = 15L/year
NOTHING IS FREE
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26. Does Bill Gates have Opportunity Cost?
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27. Consider a simple economy
A fixed level of Technology (A)
2 Goods
Guns (G)
Butter (B)
2 Factors of Production
Labor (L)
Capital (K) – Let’s assume this is fixed
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28. Scenario Guns (#) Butter (Kg)
A 200 0
B 175 75
C 100 100
D 50 115
E 0 125
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29. Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF): Is the locus of all possible
efficient production points of an economy
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Butter
Guns
Specialized in
Gun Production
A200
175
75
B
100
100
C
125
D
Specialized in Butter
Production
PPF
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Guns
Butter
“RECESSION”
“GROWTH”
“FULL EMPLOYMENT”
A
B
C
D
31. The extent to which governments should intervene in the allocation of
resources.
The threat to sustainability as a result of current patterns of resource
allocation
Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs.
The distinction between economic growth and economic development
GDP vs HDI
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32. Positive/Normative statements (AO2)
Definitions: Competitive Market, Economics, Opportunity Cost (AO1)
Differences: Economic/Free Goods; Free Market/Centrally Planned
Market (AO3)
Describe: Factors of Production, The Three Fundamental Economic
Questions (AO1)
Drawing a Production Possibility Curve based on data. (AO4)
Describing points on a PPC (Feasible, inefficient, non-feasible, growth)
(AO1)
Calculate: Total Cost based on data.(AO4)
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34. A market is an institution which permits the interaction between
buyers and sellers.
In a FREE MARKET – the market also determines which goods to
produce and how scarce resources will be allocated.
Types of Markets?
Labor Market (Factors are traded in Factor Market)
Financial Markets
Stock Market
Bond Market
Foreign Exchange Market
Product/Goods Market
Consumers and Producers determine price of products – DEMAND
and SUPPLY
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35. Demand is the behavior of Consumers
Suppose you get an allowance for food every week:
Suppose you can only buy:
Burgers
As price increases, the quantity demanded decreases.
People have different earning levels and preferences.
SUBSTITUTION EFFECT: If the price of Good X increases then all other
goods automatically become relatively cheaper so consumers will tend
to substitute other goods for X.
INCOME EFFECT: If the price of Good X increases then purchasing power
of consumers decrease and they will be able to afford less of X
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36. The demand for good summarizes the behavior of buyers
in a market.
Various possible prices and quantity a buyer is willing
and able to purchase per time period, cetris parabis.
The relationship between price per unit and quantity
demanded per period of time is inverse (negative)
LAW OF DEMAND:
As P the Qd AND as P the Qd
There are very rare exceptions!
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Scenario Price
Quantity of Books
Demanded
A $2 60,000
B $4 40,000
C $6 30,000
D $8 25,000
E $10 23,000
39. If INCOME changes?
If income increases, demand for most goods will increase.
The demand curve will “shift” to the right.
Only for NORMAL goods.
For an INFERIOR good, an increase in income will lower the
demand for said product.
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40. A good is NORMAL if:
An increase in income leads to an increase in the demand or, more
generally, if income and demand change in the same direction.
A good is INFERIOR if:
An increase in income leads to a decrease in its demand or, more
generally, if income and demand change in the opposite directions.
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D1
D2
Quantity demanded per period
Priceperunit
Normal good: An increase in
income will increase demand
– the curve shifts right from
D1 to D2
D1
D2
Priceperunit
Inferior good: An increase in
income will decrease
demand – the curve shifts
left from D1 to D2
Quantity demanded per period
42. Two goods are considered COMPLEMENTS if they are often consumed
together.
Example – Coffee and Sugar
If the price of a product increases then then the demand for its
complement decreases.
If the price of coffee ↑ then the demand for sugar ↓ (the demand
curve shifts to the left)
Similarly if the price of coffee ↓ then the demand for sugar ↑
(demand curve shifts to the right)
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43. Two goods are considered SUBSTITUTES if they are in competitive
consumption – consumer buys one or the other.
Example – Coke and Pepsi
If the price of a product increases then then the demand for its
substitute will increase.
If the price of Pepsi ↑ then the demand for Coke ↑ (the demand
curve shifts to the right)
Similarly, if the price of Pepsi ↓ then the demand for Coke ↓ (the
demand curve shifts to the left)
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44. Changes in taste
Tastes are affected by advertising, by fashion, by observing others,
health considerations…
Changes in the size of the market
Increase in the population will increase demand for most goods
Changes in demographics
Ageing population of the baby boomers – demand for false teeth
increases and chewing gum drops…
Seasonal change
Government Policy - taxation
EXPECTATIONS!
An expected change in income and or price of a good.
People buy more of a good before prices go up
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45. BIRD FLU!
Price of chicken collapses. What happens to the demand of its
SUBSTITUTES – fish and mutton?
The demand for SUBSTITUTES go up!
TIP: Avoid saying demand curve shifts ‘up’ or ‘down’ – use ‘shift to the
right’ or ‘shifts to the left’
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46. Movement along demand curve if the price of the good changes.
Movement of the demand curve if any of the other factors affecting
demand changes (income, price of substitutes, price of complements,
and taste)
Please NOTE: Neither of these change the slope of the demand curve!
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47. Typical demand function:
Qd = a – bP
Qd is the quantity demanded
A is the natural demand or autonomous demand if price was 0
B is the relationship between price and quantity demanded – it is
always negative! When the price increases by $1 (or 1 unit) then the
quantity demanded decreases by the value of B.
P is the price of a single item
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48. Qd = 600 – 50P
@ P = 0, Qd = 600
-50 is the slope of the demand curve (from the form y = mx + c)
@ P = 10, Qd = 100
@ P = 5, Qd = 350
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49. Change in the autonomous level of demand
How does the demand curve move when A changes?
What can a change in A represent?
Any of the factors that causes a shift in the demand curve!
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50. Change in the slope of the demand curve
How does the demand curve move when B changes?
What can a change in B represent?
People are changing their responsiveness to a change in prices!
Examples?
Petrol, cigarettes
X-box
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51. Consider the function: Qd = 300 – 30P
1. Create a demand schedule with P = $0, 3, 5, 7, and 9
2. Create a demand curve
Decrease a by 30 units and illustrate
Change the PRICE CO-EFFICIENT (b) to -10. Illustrate the new results
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53. Supply is the behavior of Producers
Law of Supply:
If the price of a product increases then quantity supplied per period is
expected to increase.
The relationship between price per unit and quantity supplied is
directly proportional.
The supply curve will hence be positively sloped!
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54. Supply curve is the summation of the individual firms supply
schedules.
At each price, we add the quantities supplied by each firm.
NOTE: The firms have to make identical products to be included in the
supply curve.
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55. Why do we expect the LAW OF SUPPLY to hold?
Simple answer:
… because at a higher price, a firm’s profit margin is
greater, inducing it to offer more units per period.
A more theoretically sound answer:
… because if it becomes costlier for the firm to produce more and
more units per period of time using existing capacity, then it will
be willing to do so only at a higher per unit price.
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56. Changes in the cost of FACTORS of PRODUCTION
Wages; LABOR ↑
Price of Raw Materials; LAND ↑
SUPPLY ↓ Or the SUPPLY CURVE “Shifts” LEFT
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57. Improvement in TECHNOLOGY – Cost of Production ↓
Increase in Productivity
Training, experience, healthier
SUPPLY ↑ or SUPPLY CURVE “Shifts” RIGHT
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58. Effect of Indirect Taxation?
Increase production cost hence supply “shifts” LEFT
Effect of Subsidy?
Decrease in production cost hence the supply “shifts” RIGHT
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59. Change in the price of JOINTLY SUPPLIED GOODS
If the price goes up, the supply of the JSG will also go up.
Change in the price of COMPETING SUPPLIED GOODS
If the price goes up, the supply of the CSG will go down.
Size of the MARKET – the number of FIRMS
Number of firms increase, then supply increases.
Natural conditions and disasters (SUPPLY SHOCKS)
Expectations
If you expect the price of a product to go up in the future, in the
short run, supply might decrease, i.e. shift to the left.
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60. If the Price of the good changes Movement along the supply curve
If any other factors affecting supply changes (Production factors,
technology, productivity, Price of jointly produced goods, competitive
supply, Indirect Taxes, subsidies, weather, disaster, market size etc)
Shift of the Supply Curve
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61. Standard form of the Supply Curve: Qs = C + dP
Qs represents the quantity supplied
C is the Natural or Autonomous Supply; it is the quantity supplied at P
=0; typically C will be a negative value.
D represents the rate at which a change in price will cause the
quantity supplied to increase in a supply function, d is always
POSITIVE, keeping with the LAW of SUPPLY. So when the price
increases by $1 (or 1 unit), then the quantity supplied increases by the
value of D.
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62. Qs = -200 + 150P
Make P = 0 to get the value of C
Note that the P-intercept is at 1.33 (Qs = -200 when P =0)
Suppliers won’t sell you something for free!
Make the Supply Schedule/Table
Choose P = $0, 3, 5, 8, 10
Plot the curve!
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64. A change in C will mean that the natural supply or the autonomous
supply is changing.
It will cause a shift to the right if C increases and a shift to the left if it
decreases.
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65. A change in D will cause a change in the slope of the supply curve.
The slope can not be negative!
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66. Qs = -100 + 10P
Create a Supply schedule with prices of $10, 20, 30, 40, 50
Create a Supply Curve from the schedule
Increase the autonomous supply by 50 units – illustrate
Change the value of the price co-efficient to +30. Illustrate the new
supply curve.
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73. Traditionally markets are split into FOUR types:
Perfect Competition
Monopoly
Monopolistic Competition
Oligopoly
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74. Characteristics:
Very many small firms
Altering their output won’t influence the market
Price Takers
Homogenous product
No entry (or exit) barriers
All participants have perfect information
Perfect mobility of factors of production
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75. Economies of Scale are common
Product differentiation
Information is not perfect
There is no perfect mobility of factors of production
particularly Labor
Creation of barriers to entry
Apple v. Samsung
So why study perfectly competitive markets?
Most efficient of the four market structures.
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78. Definition:
“A monopoly is a market where one firm dominates the market for a
good that has no substitutes and where significant barriers to entry
exist”
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79. Standard Oil – 1940s
J.D. Rockefeller – 80% of all global oil production and refining.
Richest man in the world.
Microsoft – 1990s
Bill Gates – 90% of all operating system sales worldwide.
Richest man in the world.
TelMex – 2000s
Carlos “Slim” Helu – 90% of all telecom in Mexico, Central and South
America
Richest man in the world
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80. Single seller
One firm controls the market – dominance.
No close substitutes
Sells something with no substitutes – unique product
Price-makers
Power to set prices
Constrained by the demand curve
Barriers to entry
Anything to avoid competition
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81. Economies of Scale (EOS)
Small firms can’t compete with lower costs via EOS
Legal Barriers
Copyrights, patents, licenses
Ownership of Essential Resources
Control of vital inputs
Aggressive Tactics
Buy out a rival firm/hostile takeover
“Predatory Pricing” and Anti-Competitive Behaviour
Choking supply of raw materials
Advertising/brand image building – BRAND LOYALTY
Diversify product range: Kelloggs
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83. As P↑ then Qd ; Law of Demand
Price = Average Revenue = DEMAND CURVE
Total Revenue increases then decreases – “diminishing returns”
Total Revenue starts to drop after MR = 0
MR↓ by 2x the Price or the demand curve.
The MR has twice the slope of the demand curve!
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85. ABHISHEK MAITY
SEMESTER 2, 2012
THEORY OF FIRMS:
MONOPOLISITC COMPETITION
AND OLIGOPOLIES
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Notas do Editor
Sample IAs and for those interested Extended Essays will be shared. We will also have one mock IA submission to prepare you for the IB IAs.
Choice – Veg or Non. Veg for lunchElastic – luxury goods like X-box; Inelastic – necessary goods like food and petrolPrice discrimination – Nike example of shoes (Branding and luxury items)Different types of markets have different weaknesses. Different types of governments have different types of economic practices. Fidel Castro had banned Monopoly in Cuba as he considered it a monopolistic game.
Microsoft and Standard Oil – Apple and Exxon anti-trust casesOPEC – Oligopoly; Organization of Petroleum Producing CountriesColonialism – Exploitation; Curse of natural resources – barriers to developWorld Bank, the IMF – lend money; US National debt - http://www.usdebtclock.org/(15.8 Trillion since I last checked! That’s about $50K per person)
Levitt verses Krugman (see “Freakanomics”)A combination of art and scienceScientific MethodObservation AssertionMore observation Warranted AssertionMore observation Theory
Other early economic stalwarts include John S. Mill, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Malthus, Ricardo.Are social workers bad people?
There are several opposing schools of Economic thought, each with their own champions – Chicago, Neo-Classical, Liberal, Libertarian, Conservative, Socialist – and they are all deeply inter-linked with national political systems. The two can not be divorced from each other. Thus there is no real right answer in economics (in social science in general) only practiced norms. The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-SkFor more videos: http://econstories.tv
*There is a new school of economic thought dealing with irrational expectations and behavior. https://www.coursera.org/course/behavioraleconY = C + I + G + NX is known as the aggregate demand model in macroeconomics, primarily developed by Keynes and his disciples.Cetris-Parabis (L)– “All else equal” – Any other field of knowledge use cetris parabis?Comes from “etcetra” = other things; “Para” = equal
Positive Statements – How the world is, so the statement can be proven as true or false, at least in principle. It can be tested against real data. An example: “A minimum wage policy will increase unemployment among unskilled labor”. Phrases to look out for: “may be”, “can”, “might”, “will”.Normative Statements – Opinions, value judgments, instructive – more examples: “Inflation is rising too fast”, “Income distribution is not fair”, “Key phrases to watch out for include “ought to be”, “should be”, “too much”, “too little”, “is fair”, “is unfair”…
Think of other positive and normative statements
The goal of economics is to improve efficiency in the use of and allocation of the world’s scarce resources.
Free Market means no/minimal government intervention in determining the answer to the BASIC ECONOMIC QUESTIONS.In a Centrally Planned Economy, the government decides the answers to the three questions. Example: Communist states – Pre-1990 Bucharest, Romania had only one central dairy store!In a Communist regime (also known as command economies) all these questions are answered by the ruling party – Mao, Castro, Stalin, Kim Jong-Il. China, though a “Communist” state has embraced market reforms since Mao’s death in 1976. Similarly after the fall of the U.S.S.R. in 1991, Russia embraced market economics and after Castro stepped down as the leader of Cuba in 2007, Cuba too has shifted to a market based system. Only North Korea remains a true totalitarian regime.Economic Goods – Goods and services that require scarce material in order to be producedFree Goods – Zero Opportunity Cost – sea water, air; goods available at zero price are not free in an economic sense if scarce resources have been used to make them.
CIRCULAR FLOW OF INCOME MODEL:Goods and services flow clockwise (outer loop) and money flows anti-clockwise (inner loop)Households provide land and labor (Factors of Production or LS) to the Labor/Resource Market; Firms demand Factors of Production (LD) from the Labor/Resource Market.The Labor/Resource Market gets money (w) from firms and pays the households in terms of wages, rent, or interest (w).Once Firms have the necessary inputs, they sell their finished products to the households through the Goods Market (QS). Money earned from the Resource/Labor Market goes to paying for goods and services Household’s demand (P).This expenditure becomes revenue for the firms (P).This completes the circular flow of the market – inputs turn into outputs; income turns into revenue.Adam Smith – “Give me that which you want, and you shall have this which you want” ~ In a perfect world with no collusion and oppression.Competitive Market – A market where there are many small firms, the good is homogenous (identical across firms), and there are no barriers to entry or exit the market.
Think about these questions, research these questions
Constant Opportunity Cost – When the value of the best forgone alternative is always constant. The graph is a straight line since the slope (ratio of the trade-off is always constant for each subsequent sacrifice).Increasing Opportunity Cost – When the value of the best forgone alternative is increasing. The graph is a convex curve since the slope is constantly changing as the ratio of the trade-off increases with each sacrifice.
The opportunity cost is 3L (2L + 1L) because it the BEST foregone option.Putting the money in the bank and working at McDonald’s is NOT mutually exclusive so you can do both, hence the opportunity cost is the sum of the two.However, you can’t deliver pizzas AND work at McDonald’s so that 1L is not counted. Also, 1L + 1L < 2L + 1L, hence, the opportunity cost is 3L
Yes, he does.
(EXTRA) Production Function: QB = A f(K,L) where QB is the quantity of butter produced; A is the level of technology; K is the Capital and L is the labor.An algebraic example would be: QB = 3K +2L. So if K =10; L = 20, then QB = 70 kgs
The Law of Increasing Opportunity cost states that as you move towards one spectrum or the other, you have to give up more of the other. Every extra hour you study, you become less productive.
This is a non-linear PPF. We can also have a linear PPF where the trade-off is one to one, i.e. constant opportunity cost. The non-linear PPF is based on the Law of Increasing Opportunity Cost. When drawing the PPF, ensure that the PP curve is touching the two axes and that it is curved outward (increasing opportunity cost) or straight line (constant opportunity cost).
Any point outside the PPF is a non-feasible production region (D) – unless there is growth, in which case the entire PPF shifts outward.Any point inside the PPF is an inefficient production point (C) – can be due to recession or bad governanceAny point on the PPF (B) and (A) are optimal production points, no waste of resources.What all does the PPC tell us?Scarcity (if there was no scarcity, all points would be feasible); Choice; Efficiency; Inefficiency; Opportunity Cost (Constant Opportunity Cost, Increasing Opportunity Cost); GrowthNote, when there is a recession the PPC itself does not SHIFT INWARDS! The PPC shifts inwards when the economy shrinks – maybe when there is a war and half the population dies…
All Free Market – too much pollution, not enough libraries or art, high rates of unemployment, inadequate health care for the poor, risky behavior, scientific enterprise (holding back of tech. most research comes from Military and government funds), care for profit only at the cost of the environment (Fracking)All Government – lack of competition and hence motivation, deteriorating product, inefficiency, loss of freedom of choiceGovernment intervention can’t guarantee success, what is the cost of intervening – loss of freedom and enterprise, creation of loopholes, corruption.How can growth be bad? Using up natural resources, polluting, global warming, any others?The extent to which the goal of economic efficiency may conflict with the goal of equity?
(Code in Brackets) – Category of command terms – please refer to the student IB Course Guide. This is available on KISNet using this link: http://net.kis.in/kis_departments/social-studies/economics/subject-guide.htmlPlease read through Chapter 1 of your Course Companion as well.
Interaction between consumers and producers (firms) in the Product/Goods Market determines the market price of each product. Changes in market conditions therefore result in changes in market prices. These set off a chain of events which leads to more or less of the good being produced and so to a new allocation of scarce resources.Competitive Market – is the market for a good with a large number of buyers and sellers, where every single seller has little or no market power…Milton Friedman – “The great virtue… enable people who hate one another to deal with one another”…True?
It’s not enough for consumers to be willing to buy, they have to be able to afford it as well.
“Demand” and “Quantity Demanded” are different! “Demand” is the sum of all the individual quantity demanded at each pricing point.Suppose there are only Joey and Ross as consumers in a marketJoey’s quantity demand of coffee @ $2 is 5 coffees/weekRoss’s quantity demand of coffee @ $2 is 7 coffees/weekMarket DEMAND @ $2 is 12 coffees/week (the market demand is the sum of all individual demand curves)The LAW OF DEMAND states that if the price of a good rises then quantity demanded per period will fall, cetrisparabis.
Goals of a typical consumer:Consumer’s will try to maximize utility/happiness. They will do this by choosing a bundle of goods which maximizes their satisfaction and which they can afford, given their income and the prices in the market. Consumers are happiest when they get more goods at the lowest possible price.Given a limited amount of income, what and how many goods should be purchased to maximize utility/happiness.
DEMAND or the DEMAND CURVE is the schedule of *ALL* price and quantity demanded combinations. [Think of it as a PPC for quantity demanded]The demand curve may or may not touch the axes. It can be a straight line or slightly curved. What matters is that the curve is negatively sloped.
The same good may be a NORMAL good in one market and an INFERIOR good in another market.For example: Used Cars, in a low income population, if Income ↑ then Demand for used cars ↑, however, in a wealthy country, if Income ↑ then demand for used cars ↓. Singapore only allows cars less than ten years old…Rice and Steak (Vietnam and USA)Examples of inferior goods?Instant noodles, Maruti 800, Public transport
Other complements?
Things you should learn from this section:Explain the demand function of the form: Q = a – bPPlot the demand functionIdentify the slope and it’s meaning in a demand contextIdentify how a change in the equation will affect the curve
Form the demand schedule from the equation; plot the demand curve
Introduction to elastcityExamples of elastic and inelastic products?
Supply is the relationship between various possible prices and the corresponding quantities that the firms are willing to produce per period, ceteris paribus.
If a market consists of 100 identical firms and each is willing to offer 200 units per month at the price of $5, then the market supply will be 20,000 units per month at the price of $5 per unit.We assume perfect competition. This is implies the existence of many small, identical firms producing undifferentiated products whose prices are known to all consumers. Under perfect competition, market price is determined by the markets, not individual firms.
Like in the case of the Demand Curve – Shift LEFT means DECREASE and Shift RIGHT means INCREASE.
Like in the case of the Demand Curve – Shift LEFT means DECREASE and Shift RIGHT means INCREASE.
Direct Taxes verses Indirect TaxesLater we will see how firms can shift the burden of taxation to the consumer
Changes to the slope of the Supply curve will be dealt with when we cover elasticity in Unit 3.
If you are showing the supply curve crossing the Y-axis, please use dotted lines as the concept of negative quantity is absurd.
Resource allocation and efficiency considerations are greatly affected by market structure.Market structures are distinguished on the basis of the number of firms in the market (many, few, or one), type of product (homogenous or differentiated), and whether barriers to entry exist.
Examples of Perfectly Competitive Markets? - Commodities - Agricultural products - Watermelons in Shanghai in October
Despite being rare, PCMs are worth studying for what they teach us about resource allocation and the efficiency resulting from high levels of competition.Assuming no externalities, PCMs result in the most optimal social output and price of the four market structures. - No shortage or excess - MSC =MSB - Most efficient -> Efficiency decreases as markets become less competitive.
Despite being rare, PCMs are worth studying for what they teach us about resource allocation and the efficiency resulting from high levels of competition.Assuming no externalities, PCMs result in the most optimal social output and price of the four market structures. - No shortage or excess - MSC =MSB - Most efficient -> Efficiency decreases as markets become less competitive.
Anti-trust cases:Standard Oil was broken down into 34 smaller companies, the largest of which is Exxon and Chevron – with revenue streams larger than the economies or Portugal and Austria.
EOS: Ship building, aircraft manufacturing; NATURAL MONOPOLY - utilitiesLegal Barriers: Apple v. Samsung, “Bittersweet Symphony”; pharmaceuticals; nationalized companiesOwnership of vital resources: Real Madrid, Man CityAggressive tactics: Products known by their brand name – Hoover, Poloroid, Xerox, MobilAnyone who has lost that status - Bisleri