ECO 211 SYLLABUS

MICROECONOMICS:

Final Exam Vocabulary / Concepts

 

UNIT 3

patents
barriers to entry
economies of scale
price discrimination

long run equilibrium

  • all 4 product mkt models
  • graphs AND tables

short run equilibrium

  • all 4 product mkt models
  • graphs AND tables
  • profits, losses, shut down

characteristics of all 4 product market models and examples

allocative efficiency

  • all 4 product mkt models
  • graphs

productive efficiency

  • all 4 product mkt models
  • graphs

Demand and MR curve

  • all 4 product mkt models
  • graphs

X-inefficiency
natural monopoly
mutual interdependence
concentration ratio
Herfindahl index

Kinked Demand Model

  • assumptions
  • graph
  • profit-max Q

 

UNIT 1

scarcity
productive efficiency
allocative efficiency
economic growth

PPC

  • assumptions
  • economic growth
  • unemployment
  • making choices
  • law of increasing costs
  • opportunity costs

opportunity costs
complements
substitutes
law of diminishing MU
supply & Demand
S & D equilibrium
non-price determinates of D
non-price determinates of S

Problems (shortcomings) of capitalism

spillover benefits
spillover costs
public goods
exclusion principle

 

UNIT 3

price elasticity of D

  • definition
  • formula (midpoints)
  • interpreting the coefficient
  • and total revenue
  • perfectly elastic
  • perfectly inelastic

marginal utility
utility maximizing rule
short run
long run

law of diminishing marginal returns

law of diminishing MU

be able to calculate and find on a graph:

  • TC
  • TFC
  • TVC
  • ATC
  • AVC
  • AFC
  • MC