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.
Discuss the subject matter of economics.
What do you mean by the production possibilities of an economy?
What is a production possibility frontier?
What do you understand by normative economic analysis?
What do you understand by positive economic analysis?
Discuss the central problems of an economy.
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 |
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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?
Will the monopolist firm continue to produce in the short run if a loss is incurred at the best short run level of output?
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 why the demand curve facing a firm under monopolistic competition is negatively sloped.
How does an increase in the number of firms in a market affect the market supply curve?
If the monopolist firm of Exercise 3 was a public sector firm. The government set a rule for its manager to accept the government fixed price as given (i.e. to be a price taker and therefore behave as a firm in a perfectly competitive market). And the government has decided to set the price so that demand and supply in the market are equal. What would be the equilibrium price, quantity and profit in this case?
The following table gives the average product schedule of labour. Find the total product and marginal product schedules. It is given that the total product is zero at zero level of labour employment.
What is the ‘price line’?
Why does the SMC curve cut the AVC curve at the minimum point of the AVC curve?
If duo poly behavior is one that is described by Cornet, the market demand curve is given by the equation q = 200 - 4p and both the firms have zero costs, find the quantity supplied by each firm in equilibrium and the equilibrium market price.
What is the supply curve of a firm in the long run?