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ECON 202
Lecture 10 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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the idea that all products go through various stages of life | product life cycle |
when products are introduced and market awareness and producer profits are low | introduction stage |
sales rise rapidly as more consumers become aware of the product and increase demand | growth stage |
sales growth rate slows and increased competition begins to reduce prices | maturity stage |
due to overproduction in the maturity stage sales, prices, profits and supply begin to decline and lower demand | decline stage |
a gradual phase-out of the firm's support for the product whie trying to maintain sales for as long as possible | harvesting |
an attempt to sell the business to another buyer | divesting |
when an economic profit cannot be achieved until a certain production level or market size is attained | minimum efficient scale |
average costs decline as a porducer maeks a greater number of single product | economy of scale |
average costs decline as a producer makes a range of different products rather than specializing in on product | economy of scope |
the idea that markets incorporate all available information into current prices; whenever new information arrives to a market, prices will adjust immediately to reflect the market's valuation of the new information | efficient markets hypothesis |
no idle resources exist; economy is producing at its maximum capacity | productive efficiency |
the economy is producing the mix of goods that society demands | allocative efficiency |
markets incorporate all public information | weakly efficient markets |
markets incorporate all private information | semi-strong efficient markets |
markets incorporate all information | strong efficient markets |
economic analysis of market behavior dependent upon the number of buyers and /or sellers in a particular market or type of market | market structure |
a market with many buyers and many sellers | perfect market |
assumptions tha tmust be made to analyze a market with many buyers and sellers | perfect market assumptions |