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Microeconomics Midterm 2
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
11/17/2010

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Explicit Costs
Definition
Involves actually laying out money. (materials, physical price)
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Implicit Costs
Definition
Does not involve laying out money. (Measured in Dollar Terms) (Opportunity Cost)
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Explicit Cost (For making a chair)
Definition
Price of materials (wood, nails, glue). Cost of labor.
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Implicit Costs (For making a chair)
Definition
What's your Opportunity Cost? What's the next best thing you could've been doing?
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Total Opportunity Costs =
Definition
Explicit Cost + Implicit Costs
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Accounting Profit =
Definition
Total Revenue - Explicit Cost
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Economic Profit =
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Total Revenue - Explicit Costs- Implicit Costs
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Marginal Analysis
Definition
Cost of producing one more unit.
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Product X = 100 Total Cost = $10
Product 2X = 101 Total Cost = $11
Marginal Analysis Between X and 2X =
Definition
$1
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Sunk Cost
Definition
A cost that is incurred and non recoverable.(Remember JT Concert example) (Does not factor into your OC)
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Net Present Value =
Definition
$ X (1/((1+r)^t) = Real Value
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In a Discrete Setting (Only buy whole Units)
Definition
Marginal Benefit has to be greater than or equal to Marginal Cost
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In a Continuous Setting
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Marginal Benefit = Marginal Cost
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Marginal Net Benefit =
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Marginal Benefit - Marginal Cost
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Total Net Benefits =
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All Marginal Net Benefits Added up.
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Properties of all Indifference curves
Definition
Never Cross.
Farther out from origin indicates higher utility.
Downward sloping
Convex
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Optimal Consumption =
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- (MUa)/(MUb) = - (Pa)/(Pb)
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Cannot Tell the price with indifference curves they will try to trick you by...
Definition
giving you a straight indifference curve.
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Production Function
Definition
relationship between quantity of inputs and quantity of outputs.
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Fixed Input
Definition
an input whose quantity doesn't change with quantity of output.
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Variable Input
Definition
an input that changes with the number of outputs.
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Long Run
Definition
time period in which all inputs are variable.
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Short Run
Definition
time period in which some inputs are variable whilst others are fixed.
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Marginal Product
Definition
Additional quantity of output produced by using one more unit of that input.
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Optimal Point is where...
Definition
Marginal Revenue = Marginal Cost
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4 Things for Perfect Competition to Occur
Definition
1: Many (Infinite) Buyers and Sellers
2: All firms are price takers (Can't set their own price)
3: homogenous products
4: Free entry and exit into industry
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