The third in a series of study resources on Microeconomics that will help provide an understanding of market failure and it’s causes.
This resource takes a look how the abuse of power by monopolist firms, and their decisions to increase price and restrict output results in a misallocation of society’s scarce resources.
Why governments should regulate monopolies
Government intervention and regulation of monopolies
A introduction to Microeconomics that will help establish a general understanding of basic microeconomic concepts.
This document explores topics such as scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, the production possibility curve and economic systems (planned, free-market and mixed).
The second in a series of study resources on Microeconomics that will help provide an understanding of market failure and it’s causes.
This resource takes a look at the various kinds of goods, their nature and how their existence results in some form of market failure. It covers
Free goods
Economic goods
Public goods
Private goods
Merit goods
Demerit goods
The first in a series of Microeconomics notes exploring market structure - organizational characteristics and features of a market that determine the behavior of firms operating within it and the outcomes in terms of prices, competition, and efficiency.
This study resource looks at the concept of (economic) efficiency. It covers:
Economic efficiency ( = Productive efficiency + Allocative efficiency)
Productive efficiency
Allocative efficiency
Dynamic efficiency
X-inefficiency
The fifth in a series of Microeconomics study resources that looks at firm theory, also known as the theory of the firm, a fundamental concept in economics that seeks to understand the behavior and decision-making processes of firms within an economy. It is a crucial part of microeconomics and provides insights into how businesses operate, produce goods and services, and interact with the market and other economic agents.
This study resource looks at the concept of business growth. It covers:
Internal (organic) growth
Integration (external growth) - Vertical, horizontal and conglomerate integration, franchising
Constraints of business growth
Demergers
The fourth in a series of Microeconomics study resources that looks at*** firm theory***, also known as the theory of the firm, a fundamental concept in economics that seeks to understand the behavior and decision-making processes of firms within an economy. It is a crucial part of microeconomics and provides insights into how businesses operate, produce goods and services, and interact with the market and other economic agents.
This study resource looks at the objectives of a firm, outcomes that the owners of a business wish to achieve.
Study resource on Microeconomic principles that will help provide an understanding of elasticity - a measure of the responsiveness of an economic variable in response to a change in another economic variable.
This resource covers:
Price elasticity of demand (PED)
Relationship between PED and total revenue
Income elasticity of demand (YED)
Cross elasticity of demand (XED)
Price elasticity of supply (PES)
Applications and uses of the different kinds of elasticity
The third in a series of Microeconomics notes exploring market structure - organizational characteristics and features of a market that determine the behavior of firms operating within it and the outcomes in terms of prices, competition, and efficiency.
This study resource looks at the market structure of monopolistic competition. It covers:
Definition and features of a monopolistically competitive market
Equilibrium in a monopolistically competitive market
Efficiency in a monopolistically competitive market
The second in a series of Microeconomics notes exploring market structure - organizational characteristics and features of a market that determine the behavior of firms operating within it and the outcomes in terms of prices, competition, and efficiency.
This study resource looks at the market structure of perfect competition. It covers:
Definition and features of a perfectly competitive market
Equilibrium in a perfectly competitive market
Efficiency in a perfectly competitive market
Shutdown condition
The sixth in a series of Microeconomics notes exploring market structure - organizational characteristics and features of a market that determine the behavior of firms operating within it and the outcomes in terms of prices, competition, and efficiency.
This resource takes a look at the concept of price discrimination. It covers:
Definition of price discrimination
Conditions required for price discrimination by a firm to succeed.
Different types of price discrimination (first-degree, second-degree and third-degree )price discrimination
The fifth in a series of Microeconomics study resources that looks at consumer behavior theory, a branch of microeconomics that seeks to understand how individuals make decisions regarding the purchase, consumption, and disposal of goods and services. It explores the factors and processes that influence consumers’ choices, preferences, and behaviors in the marketplace.
This resource covers the income and substitution effect; how a change in the price of a product induces a change in its consumption. It looks at:
Income and substitution effect for normal goods
Income and substitution effect for inferior goods
Income and substitution effect for Giffen goods
The fourth in a series of Microeconomics notes exploring market structure - organizational characteristics and features of a market that determine the behavior of firms operating within it and the outcomes in terms of prices, competition, and efficiency.
This study resource looks at the market structure of oligopoly. It covers:
Definition and features of an oligopoly
Collusion (formal;cartels, and informal)
Kinked demand curve
N-firm concentration ratio
Game theory
Efficiency in oligopolies
The fifth in a series of Microeconomics notes exploring market structure - organizational characteristics and features of a market that determine the behavior of firms operating within it and the outcomes in terms of prices, competition, and efficiency.
This study resource looks at the market structure of monopoly. It covers:
Definition and features of a monopoly
Equilibrium in a monopoly
Natural monopolies
Efficiency in a monopoly
A compilation of my summarized notes to any and all students and/or teachers reading and/or teaching Economics (9708) at the CIE Advanced Subsidiary (AS) Level.
A compilation of Microeconomic study resources that focus on market failure and its causes. It covers.
Externalities
Costs and benefits (private, external, social, etc.)
Negative production externalities
Negative consumption externalities
Positive production externalities
Positive consumption externalities
Types of Goods
Free goods
Economic goods
Public goods
Private goods
Merit goods
Demerit goods
Monopoly Power
How abuse of monopoly power results in market failure
Why governments should regulate monopolies
Government intervention and regulation of monopolies
Inequality
Inequality and why it persists in the free market
Measures of inequality
Government intervention: methods to reduce income and wealth inequality.
Information Failure
Causes of information failure
Asymmetric information (Adverse selection and moral hazard)
Methods to resolve information failure
Behavioral insights and nudge theory
A compilation of Microeconomic study resources that focus on principles relating to the market forces of demand and supply.
It covers:
Demand and Supply
Demand
Law of demand
Determinants of demand
Changes in demand
Supply
Law of supply
Determinants of supply
Changes in supply
Interaction of demand and supply (equilibrium)
Different Types of Demand and Supply
Joint demand
Competitive demand
Composite demand
Derived demand
Joint supply
Competitive supply
** Elasticity**
Price elasticity of demand (PED)
Relationship between PED and total revenue
Income elasticity of demand (YED)
Cross elasticity of demand (XED)
Price elasticity of supply (PES)
Applications and uses of the different kinds of elasticity
Consumer and Producer Surplus
Consumer surplus
Price changes and consumer surplus
Producer surplus
Price changes and consumer surplus