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Exam 1 terms and concepts

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Definition
show Simplified version of reality, can be used to make predictions, which can be used to test model accuracy  
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Ceteris Paribus   show
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show Describes how it works, involves making forecasts, often asses policy based on efficiency  
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Normative   show
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show Used to show how efficient different scenarios of data are, increasing opportunity leads to bowed out  
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Scarcity   show
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show How much less of one good can be produced if more than the other good is produced, the amount of given up  
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show Production if it produces on the production possibility frontier, allocation if it produces the mix of goods and services the people want to consumer  
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show An increase in factors of production, resources such as land labor capital, human capital, inputs that are not used up in production, improved technology  
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Two country model   show
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show Represents transactions within the economy as flows of goods, services, and money between households and firms, transactions occur in markets,  
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Circular Flow Model   show
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show Competitive Market, operates through pressing toward and equilibrium  
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Competitive Market   show
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Equilibrium   show
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show Slopes downward, movement along can only occur when a price changes leads to the change in the quantity demanded  
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show Fundamental relationship between price and quantity, estimated by the demand schedule  
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Demand Schedule   show
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show Ceteris Paribus, inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded  
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show Market demand, change in number of consumers, income(normal directly related, inferior inversely related), expectation about future prices, tastes and preferences(substitutes and complement)  
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show More individuals more market demand, the horizonal sum of the individual demand curve of all consumers in the market  
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show Estimated by supply schedule, graphically represented, slopes upward, movement along can only occur when a price change leads to a change in quantity supplied  
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Supply   show
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Law of Supply   show
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show The sum of individual supply curves for all producers  
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show Changes: Number of suppliers, input prices(land, labor, capital), technology, expectations about future prices, related goods and service prices, increase in supply causes a rightward shift, decrease in supply causes left shift  
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Land, labor, capital   show
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show The market moves to equilibrium price/point  
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Causes of Price Movements   show
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show When prices are above market clearing level, excess quantity supplied, pushes e-point down. To clear: drop quantity, dropping price, increasing demand  
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show When prices are below market clearing, pushes e-point up. To clear: increase production, increasing supply, increasing price, lowering demand  
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Changes in Supply and Demand   show
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show Demand shifts: move along supply line, directly related between price and quantity. Supply shifts: move along demand line, inversely related between price and quantity  
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Double Shifts   show
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Price control and quotas   show
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show The difference between willingness to pay and price. Equal to the area below the market demand curve but above the price  
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Producer surplus   show
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show The minimum price for a firm to supply goods and service  
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show The total gain to society from the producers and consumers of a good, sum of consumer and producer surplus. Maximizes gain to the people  
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show Price Ceilings, Price Floors  
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show Max market price, below e-price, benefit successful buyers, causes a shortage. Inefficiencies: deadweight loss, black market, allocation among consumers, wasted resources, inefficiently low quality  
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show Minimum markets price, above e-price, causes surplus. Benefit successful sellers, creates persistent surplus. Inefficiencies: deadweight loss, allocation of sales among sellers, wasted resources, Inefficiently high quality, illegal activity  
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Quantity Controls   show
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Quotas   show
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Quota Rent   show
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OC(A)= B/A   show
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show Quantity Demand Equation  
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QS(P) = n +1/2P   show
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show Consumer Surplus Equation  
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show Producer Surplus Equation  
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