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Comprehensive Microeconomics Final Exam Study Guide

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Three Key Economic Ideas

  • Guided course
    Marginal Analysis
    09:36
  • People Are Rational
    02:02
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    Economic Incentives
    01:40

Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency

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    Understanding the PPF
    06:23
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    PPF - Attainable and Efficient
    04:48

PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency

  • PPF - Graphing Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs
    03:33
  • PPF - The Law of Increasing Opportunity Costs
    05:04

PPF - Outward Shifts

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    PPF - General Economic Growth
    01:55
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    PPF - Technological Advances in an Industry
    02:49

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage

  • Opportunity Costs and Comparative Advantage
    04:36
  • Different PPFs and Absolute Advantage
    02:03

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Trade

  • Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Trade
    05:30

Overview of Supply and Demand Shifts

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    Overview of Supply and Demand Shifts
    04:07

Shifting Demand

  • Consumer Income: Normal Goods and Inferior Goods
    01:30
  • Consumer Preferences
    01:44
  • Number of Consumers
    02:15

Shifting Supply

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    Nature
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  • Technology
    01:39
  • Shifting Supply
    01:56

Willingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus

  • Consumer Surplus and Market Demand
    06:03
  • Consumer Surplus
    02:15
  • Willingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus
    03:39

Willingness to Sell and Producer Surplus

  • Willingness to Sell and Producer Surplus
    03:04
  • Producer Surplus and Market Supply
    04:03
  • Producer Surplus
    01:30

Economic Surplus and Efficiency

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    Deadweight Loss and Market Failure
    07:08
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    Economic Surplus
    11:40

Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets

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    Price Ceilings
    07:07
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    Price Floors and Black Markets
    08:03
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    Price Floors
    02:18

Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence

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    Tax Incidence
    03:21
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    Taxes and Tax Incidence
    13:27

Effects of Taxes on a Market

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    Effects of Taxes
    07:49
  • Tax Revenue
    03:59

Externalities: Social Benefits and Social Costs

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    Externalities on the Graph
    14:23
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    Negative Externality and Positive Externality
    10:54

Public Solutions to Externalities

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    Public Solutions to Externalities:Quantity Limits
    04:07
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    Public Solutions to Externalities:Command-and-Control Policies and Corrective Pigovian Taxes and Subsidies
    16:25

Four Types of Goods and Two Characteristics

  • The Four Types of Goods: Private Goods, Club Goods, Common Resources, and Public Goods
    05:41
  • Rivalry and Excludability
    04:47

Percentage Change and Price Elasticity of Demand

  • Interpreting Elasticity
    04:56
  • Introducing Price Elasticity of Demand
    03:33
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    Different Answers when Increasing or Decreasing Prices! (Part 1)
    04:34

Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand

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    Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand
    06:12

Elasticity and the Midpoint Method

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    The Midpoint Method
    10:04

Price Elasticity of Supply

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    Price Elasticity of Supply
    05:38

Exporting and Importing

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    Low World Price:Import
    06:36
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    Autarky
    04:
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    High World Price:Export
    09:03

Sources of Comparative Advantage

  • Sources of Comparative Advantage
    05:50

Tariffs

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    Tariffs on Imports
    14:35

The Production Function and Diminishing Returns

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    The Production Function and Diminishing Returns
    07:45
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    Calculating Fixed Cost, Variable Cost, and Average Total Cost
    05:09

Marginal Cost

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    Marginal Cost
    10:48

The Relationship Between Average Cost and Marginal Cost

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    Average Cost and Marginal Cost
    06:38
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    Patterns of MC, AFC, AVC, and ATC curves
    08:56

Average Total Cost: Short Run and Long Run

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    ATC in the Short Run and Long Run
    13:13

Characteristics of Perfect Competition

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    Characteristics of Perfect Competition
    02:29
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    Market Demand and Individual Firm Demand
    03:57

Short Run Shutdown Decision

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    Short Run Shutdown Decision (continued)
    07:54
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    Short Run Shutdown Decision on the Graph
    07:05
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    Short Run Shutdown Decision
    03:28

Long Run Entry and Exit Decision

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    Long Run Exit/Enter Decision (continued)
    06:04
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    Long Run Exit/Enter Decision
    02:39
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    Long Run Exit/Enter Decision on the Graph
    09:32

Long Run Equilibrium

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    Long Run Equilibrium
    07:04

Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition

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    Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition
    05:53
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    Monopolistic Competition Demand Curve
    04:25

Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run

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    Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run
    09:47
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    How Companies Stay Profitable
    01:33

Characteristics of Oligopoly

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    Characteristics of Oligopoly
    04:45
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    Oligopoly Barriers to Entry
    05:16

One-Time Games and the Prisoner's Dilemma

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    Game Theory, One-Time Games, and the Prisoner's Dilemma
    05:28
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    One-Time Games:Finding Dominant Strategies and Nash Equilibrium with the "Check and X"Method
    06:03
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    Dominant Strategy and the Nash Equilibrium
    06:29

Characteristics of Monopoly

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    Monopoly Barriers to Entry
    06:29
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    Characteristics of Monopoly
    02:48
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    Monopoly Demand Curve
    04:17

Monopoly Profit on the Graph

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    Monopoly Profit on the Graph
    07:41

Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss

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    Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss
    12:19