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Microeconomics deals with the behavior of individual economic units. These units
include consumers, workers, investors, owners of land, business firms
Microeconomics explains how and why these units make economic decisions and
how economic units interact to form larger units- market and industries
Macroeconomics, deals with aggregate economic quantities, such as the level and
growth rate of national output, interest rates, unemployment, and inflation
The boundary betweem macro and microeconomics has become less and less
distinct in recent years
Microeconomics deals with both positive and normative questions. Positive
questions have to do with explanation and prediction, normative questions with
what ought to be.
Eq. Indonesian govt imposes a quota on the import of sugars. What will happen to
the price of sugars and to their production and sale ? What impact will this have on
consumers ? On workers in the sugar industries ? These questions are POSITIVE
analysis
What is the best due to the policy ? This involves normative analysis
Normative analysis is not only concerned with alternative policy option it also
involves the design of particular policy choice
Nortmative analysis is often suplemented by value judgement. Equity Vs Economic
efficiency etc.
Unemployment Vs Labor force participation of women: The additional-workers
effect or the discouraged-worker effect
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What is a Market ?
A market is a collection of buyers and sellers that interact, resulting in the
possibility for exchange
Competitive Versus Non-competitive Markets
The extent of a market refers to its boundaries, both geographic and in
terms of the range of products to be included in it
Arbitrage : a commodity is bought and sold in a world market but the cost
of transporting commodity is small relative to its value and there is
significant different price between locations. Arbitrageurs (person who is
doing arbitrage)
Real versus Nominal Prices
Nominal price of good is just its absolute price
Real price of a good is the price relative to an aggregate measure of
prices (CPI)
Real Price Eggs in 2009 = (CPI 2000/CPI 2009) X Nominal price 2009
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Supply-demand analysis is a fundamental

and powerful tool that can be applied to a
wide variety of interesting and important
problems: govt price control, minimum
wages, subsidies, taxes, tariff, and import
quotas affect concumers and producers
Supply-demand are used to describe the
market mechanism
The characteristics of supply and demand
may differ from one market to another
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Shift in demand due to income, the weather or prices of
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New equilibrium following Shift in supply and demand

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Long-run path of price
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New equilibrium following Shift in supply and demand

 Elasticities of Supply and Demand

An elasticity is a measure of the

sensitivity of one variable to another: the
percentage change that will occur in one
variable in response to a 1 percent
change in another variable
Ep = (% Q)/ (% P)
Ep = (Q/Q) / (P/P) = (P/Q)((Q/P)
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Infinitely Elastic Demand

Price

P* D

Quantity
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Inelastic Demand
Price
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Q* Quantity
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Price
DSR
DLR

Gasoline
Automobile

DLR
DSR

Quantity
In long run old cars
In long run change run out & buy new
to efficient car cars
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Price
SSR SLR
SSR
SLR

Secondary
New Steel
Steel

Quantity
In long run the In long run stock of
capacity change scrap falls
 Effects of Government Intervention-Price Control

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falls to Q1, demand increase to Q2, and a shortage
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Excess Demand
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