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Microeconomics: Core Principles, Markets, and Applications – Study Guide

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Positive and Normative Analysis

People Are Rational

People Respond to Incentives

Marginal Analysis

Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency

PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency

Sources of Comparative Advantage

Competitive Markets

The Demand Curve

Shifts in the Demand Curve

Movement Along a Demand Curve

The Supply Curve

Shifts in the Supply Curve

Movement Along a Supply Curve

Market Equilibrium

Consumer Surplus and Willingness to Pay

Producer Surplus and Willingness to Sell

Economic Surplus and Efficiency

Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets

Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence

Effects of Taxes on a Market

Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph

Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand

Total Revenue Test

Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand

Income Elasticity of Demand

Price Elasticity of Supply

Revenue, Cost, and Profit

Marginal Cost

Characteristics of Perfect Competition

Revenue in Perfect Competition

Short Run Shutdown Decision

Long Run Entry and Exit Decision

Perfect Competition and Efficiency

Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition

Revenue in Monopolistic Competition

Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run

Efficiency in Monopolistic Competition

Characteristics of Monopoly

Monopoly Revenue

Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss

Antitrust Laws and Government Regulation of Monopolies

Four Market Model Summary: Perfect Competition

Four Market Model Summary: Monopolistic Competition

Characteristics of Oligopoly

One-Time Games and the Prisoner's Dilemma

Game Theory and Oligopoly Profit

Four Market Model Summary: Oligopoly

Public Goods: Demand Curve and Optimal Quantity

The Free Rider Problem and the Tragedy of the Commons

Externalities: Social Benefits and Social Costs

Public Solutions to Externalities

Budget Constraint

Indifference Curves

Consumer Optimum Consumption: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curves

Consumer Optimum Consumption: Marginal Utility per Dollar Spent

The Production Function and Diminishing Returns

Graphing Costs

The Relationship Between Average Cost and Marginal Cost

Average Total Cost: Short Run and Long Run

Isoquant Lines

Isocost Lines

Cost-Minimizing Combination of Labor and Capital

The Production Function and Marginal Revenue Product

Demand for Labor in Perfect Competition

Shifts in Labor Demand

Supply of Labor in Perfect Competition

Shifts in Labor Supply

Differences in Wages

Unions