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?
What is a production possibility frontier?
Discuss the central problems of an economy.
Discuss the subject matter of economics.
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?
When does a production function satisfy constant returns to scale?
Explain the concepts of the short run and the long run.
What is the ‘price line’?
A consumer wants to consume two goods. The prices of the two goods are Rs 4
and Rs 5 respectively. The consumer’s income is Rs 20.
(i) Write down the equation of the budget line.
(ii) How much of good 1 can the consumer consume if she spends her entire
income on that good?
(iii) How much of good 2 can she consume if she spends her entire income on
that good?
(iv) What is the slope of the budget line?
Questions 5, 6 and 7 are related to question 4.
What is meant by prices being rigid? How can oligopoly behavior lead to such an outcome?
Explain through a diagram the effect of a rightward shift of both the demand and supply curves on equilibrium price and quantity.
What is the average product of an input?
Find out the maximum possible output for a firm with zero units of L and 10 units of K when its production function is Q = 5L = 2K.
Suppose the demand and supply curve of commodity XX in a perfectly competitive market are given by:
qD =700 - p
qs = 500 + 3p for p ≥ 15
= 0 or 0 ≤ p <15
Assume that the market consists of identical firms. Identify the reason behind the market supply of commodity X being zero at any price less than Rs 15. What will be the equilibrium price for this commodity? At equilibrium, what quantity of X will be produced?
What are the average fixed cost, average variable cost and average cost of a firm? How are they related?