Distinguish between microeconomics and macroeconomics.
Point of Difference | Microeconomics | Macroeconomics |
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Study Matters | It studies about individual economic units like households, firms, consumers, etc. | It studies about an economy as a whole. |
Deals with | It deals with how consumers or producers make their decisions depending on their given budget and other variables. | It deals with how different economic sectors such as households, industries, government and foreign sectors make their decisions. |
Method | The major microeconomic variables are price, individual consumer’s demand, wages, rent, profit, revenues, etc. | The major macroeconomic variables are aggregate price, aggregate demand, aggregate supply, inflation, unemployment, etc. |
Variables | The major microeconomic variables are price, individual consumer’s demand, wages, rent, profit, revenues, etc. | The major macroeconomic variables are aggregate price, aggregate demand, aggregate supply, inflation, unemployment, etc. |
Theories |
Various theories studied are:
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Various theories studied are:
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Distinguish between a centrally planned economy and a market economy.
What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?
Discuss the subject matter of economics.
What is a production possibility frontier?
Discuss the central problems of an economy.
What do you understand by normative economic analysis?
What do you understand by positive economic analysis?
Explain the concept of a production function
What would be the shape of the demand curve so that the total revenue curve is?
(a) A positively sloped straight line passing through the origin?
(b) A horizontal line?
Explain market equilibrium.
What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?
What do you mean by the budget set of a consumer?
What is the total product of input?
From the schedule provided below calculate the total revenue, demand curve and the price elasticity of demand:
Quantity |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
Marginal Revenue |
10 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
- |
When do we say that there is an excess demand for a commodity in the market?
How are the total revenue of a firm, market price, and the quantity sold by the firm related to each other?
What is budget line?
Explain the concept of a production function
Will a profit-maximising firm in a competitive market produce a positive level of output in the short run if the market price is less than the minimum of AVC? Give an explanation.
What is the supply curve of a firm in the long run?
Can there be a positive level of output that a profit-maximising firm produces in a competitive market at which market price is not equal to marginal cost? Give an explanation.
The following table shows the total cost schedule of a firm. What is the total fixed cost schedule of this firm? Calculate the TVC, AFC, AVC, SAC and SMC schedules of the firm.
At what level of price do the firms in a perfectly competitive market supply when free entry and exit is allowed in the market? How is the equilibrium quantity determined in such a market?
What is the reason for the long run equilibrium of a firm in monopolistic competition to be associated with zero profit?
What does the average fixed cost curve look like? Why does it look so?
If a consumer has monotonic preferences, can she be indifferent between the
bundles (10, 8) and (8, 6)?
Comment on the shape of MR curve in case when TR curve is a
(a) Positively sloped straight line
(b) Horizontal straight line