Teacher of economics and business across five international schools for last twelve years having spent the 16 years prior employed as a Bank Manager with Lloyds Banking Group (UK)
Examiner with CIE - economics (6 years)
Teacher of economics and business across five international schools for last twelve years having spent the 16 years prior employed as a Bank Manager with Lloyds Banking Group (UK)
Examiner with CIE - economics (6 years)
PPT covering Unit 7.4:
7.4 Private costs and benefits, externalities and social costs and benefits
7.4.1 definition and calculation of social costs (SC) as the sum of private costs (PC) and external costs (EC),
including marginal social costs (MSC), marginal private costs (MPC) and marginal external costs (MEC)
7.4.2 definition and calculation of social benefits (SB) as the sum of private benefits (PB) and external benefits
(EB), including marginal social benefits (MSB), marginal private benefits (MPB) and marginal external
benefits (MEB)
7.4.3 definition of positive externality and negative externality
7.4.4 positive and negative externalities of both consumption and production
7.4.5 deadweight welfare losses arising from positive and negative externalities
7.4.6 asymmetric information and moral hazard
7.4.7 use of costs and benefits in analysing decisions (knowledge of net present value is not required)
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PPT covering Unit 7.5:
7.5 Types of cost, revenue and profit, short-run and long-run production
7.5.1 short-run production function:
• fixed and variable factors of production
• definition and calculation of total product, average product and marginal product
• law of diminishing returns (law of variable proportions)
7.5.2 short-run cost function:
• definition and calculation of fixed costs (FC) and variable costs (VC)
• definition and calculation of total, average and marginal costs (TC, AC, MC), including average total
cost (ATC), total and average fixed costs (TFC, AFC) and total and average variable costs (TVC, AVC)
• explanation of shape of short-run average cost and marginal cost curves
7.5.3 long-run production function:
• no fixed factors of production
• returns to scale
7.5.4 long-run cost function:
• explanation of shape of long-run average cost curve
• concept of minimum efficient scale
7.5.5 relationship between economies of scale and decreasing average costs
7.5.6 internal and external economies of scale
7.5.7 internal and external diseconomies of scale
7.5.8 definition and calculation of revenue: total, average and marginal revenue (TR, AR, MR)
7.5.9 definition of normal, subnormal and supernormal profit
7.5.10 calculation of supernormal and subnormal profit
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PPT covering Unit 7.3
7.3 Efficiency and market failure
7.3.1 definitions of productive efficiency and allocative efficiency
7.3.2 conditions for productive efficiency and allocative efficiency
7.3.3 Pareto optimality
7.3.4 definition of dynamic efficiency
7.3.5 definition of market failure
7.3.6 reasons for market failure
7.1 Utility
7.2 Indifference curves and budget lines
7.3 Efficiency and market failure
7.4 Private costs and benefits, externalities and social costs and benefits
7.5 Types of cost, revenue and profit, short-run and long-run production
7.6 Different market structures
7.7 Growth and survival of firms
PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included joint supply, taxes , subsidies etc
8.1 Government policies to achieve efficient resource allocation and correct market failure
8.2 Equity and redistribution of income and wealth
8.3 Labour market forces and government intervention
PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included supply, the firm, competitive market, factors of production
PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included the foreign exchange market, labour market, unemployment, money market etc
PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included static analysis & comparative static analysis
PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included excess demand, excess supply, market equilibrium etc
I have broken the CIE Econs A2 past paper questions into seven categories for easy access - Efficiency, Market structure, Marginal utility, Labour Market, Circular flow of income, Economic development and Government policies. This is taken from the years 2017 - March 2020
A2 Macroeconomics. Topic -** Modeling the economy**. Aids lesson planning with topic related prompts enabling class discussion throughout. PPT - learning objectives, key terms, spec inserts, diagrams, videos and so forth. Exercises taken from Economics - Peter smith
A2 Macroeconomics. Topic -** Policies to promote development**. Aids lesson planning with topic related prompts enabling class discussion throughout. PPT - learning objectives, key terms, spec inserts, diagrams, videos and so forth. Exercises taken from Economics - Peter smith
A2 Macroeconomics. Topic -** Designing macroeconomic policy**. Aids lesson planning with topic related prompts enabling class discussion throughout. PPT - learning objectives, key terms, spec inserts, diagrams, videos and so forth. Exercises taken from Economics - Peter smith
PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included normal goods, inferior goods, complements, substitutes, Giffen goods, Veblen goods
PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included demand & supply, ceteris paribus, income effect, substitution effect, conspicuous demand etc
Details the constituents of an income statement and balance sheet. Cash statements are not covered. 7 ratios. Worksheet allows for practice with solution.
PPT 1- A2 Econs CIE (to be used with any syllabus) - exercises refered to are from Economics - Peter Smith
Objectives provided for syllabus covered. Key words detailed. Relevant diagrams. Syllabus prompts