Principles Of Microeconomics

 

 

 

 

Aside from advertising, how can monopolistically
competitive firms increase demand for their products?

2.. Make a case for why monopolistically competitive

industries never reach long-run equilibrium

3.Are unions and technological improvements

complementary? Why or why not?

4. Will union membership continue to decline? Why

or why not?

5. If it is not profitable to discriminate, why does

discrimination persist?

6. If a company has discriminated against minorities

in the past, should it be required to give priority to

minority applicants today? Why or why not?

7. Why are there not a lot of Oligopolies?

 

 

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Suppose you could buy shoes one at a time, rather
than in pairs. What do you predict the cross-price

elasticity for left shoes and right shoes would be?

2. Think back to a purchase that you made recently.

How would you describe your thinking before you made

that purchase?

3. The rules of politics are not always the same as the

rules of economics. In discussions of setting budgets for

government agencies, there is a strategy called “closing

the Washington Monument.” When an agency faces the

unwelcome prospect of a budget cut, it may decide to

close a high-visibility attraction enjoyed by many people

(like the Washington Monument). Explain in terms of

diminishing marginal utility why the Washington

Monument strategy is so misleading. Hint: If you are

really trying to make the best of a budget cut, should you

cut the items in your budget with the highest marginal

utility or the lowest marginal utility? Does the

Washington Monument strategy cut the items with the

highest marginal utility or the lowest marginal utility?

4. Income effects depend on the income elasticity of

demand for each good that you buy. If one of the goods

you buy has a negative income elasticity, that is, it is an

inferior good, what must be true of the income elasticity

of the other good you buy?

Principles of Microeconomics

Prepare and submit a 4 – 6 page paper that identifies and discusses the three (3) most important insights you gained during Principles of Microeconomics; the implications of your learning and how your behaviour and/or thinking has changed; and what actions you will take to apply the insights gained to increase your professional and/or personal effectiveness.

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Question- 1 Marks-3

Zaid can produce either tables or chairs. Zaid can work up to 10 hours a day. His production possibilities are given in the table below:

Tables Chairs
0 100
10 80
20 60
30 40
40 20
50 0

1) Construct the production possibilities frontier (PPF) for Zaid. Put tables on the Horizontal axis and chairs on the vertical axis.
2) What is Zaid’s opportunity cost of producing one additional table?
3) Currently Zaid is producing 20 tables and 40 chairs.
a) Is this allocation of resources efficient? Why?
b) Show this allocation on the graph and advise Zaid how he can be more efficient.

Question- 2 Marks-2

Suppose the market for Computer is given by the following equations for supply and demand:

Qd= 3300−2P
Qs= 500+8P

1) Calculate the equilibrium price and quantity.
2) Sketch the supply and demand curves on a graph indicating the equilibrium quantity and price.

 

 

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Explain the concepts of demand and supply, identify the variables that can influence the demand
and supply of a firm’s product or service, and determine equilibrium and the resulting market price
and quantity.
2. Describe the outcome on price and quantity with government intervention in a market.
3. Explain the concepts of externalities and public goods.
4. Explain the economic model of consumer behavior.
5. Discuss the relevant costs that a firm faces in its decision making.
6. Compare and contrast the four different market structures in a market economy.
7. Explain in what sense the demand for labor is “derived” demand and the key factors that
influence this demand.
8. Discuss, integrate, and explain the relevance of Responsible Stewardship
in the context of microeconomic analysis.

Principles of Microeconomics

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