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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in Economics A: Microeconomics and Macroeconomics Study Guide

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Introduction to Economics

Positive and Normative Analysis

Scarcity and Choice

Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency

PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency

PPF - Outward Shifts

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Trade

    PPF - The Price of the Trade

    People Are Rational

    People Respond to Incentives

    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

    Using the Supply and Demand Curves to Find Equilibrium

    Effects of Surplus

    Effects of Shortage

    Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets

    Quantitative Analysis of Price Ceilings and Price Floors: Finding Points

    Quantitative Analysis of Price Ceilings and Price Floors: Finding Areas

    Percentage and Decimal Review

    Fractions Review

    Graphing Review

    Graphs of Two Variables

    Relationships between Variables

    Interpreting Graphs, Correlation, Causation, and Omitted Variables

    Slope of Linear Graphs

    Slope of a Curve at a Point

    Finding the Maximum and Minimum Points on Graphs

    Percentage and Decimal Review

    Fractions Review

    Areas of Shapes

    Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph

    Price Elasticity of Supply

    Price Elasticity of Supply on a Graph

    Elasticity and the Midpoint Method

    Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand

    Total Revenue Test

    Total Revenue Along a Linear Demand Curve

    Income Elasticity of Demand

    Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand

    Elasticity Summary

    Consumer Surplus and Willingness to Pay

    Producer Surplus and Willingness to Sell

    Economic Surplus and Efficiency

    Quantitative Analysis of Consumer and Producer Surplus at Equilibrium

    Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence

    Effects of Taxes on a Market

    Elasticity and Taxes

    Subsidies

    The Laffer Curve

    Quantitative Analysis of Taxes

    Tax Efficiency

    Tax Equity

    Externalities: Social Benefits and Social Costs

    Public Solutions to Externalities

    Private Solutions to Externalities: The Coase Theorem

    Four Types of Goods and Two Characteristics

    The Free Rider Problem and the Tragedy of the Commons

    Public Goods: Demand Curve and Optimal Quantity

    Exporting and Importing

    Sources of Comparative Advantage

    Tariffs on Imports

    Import Quotas and VERs

    Arguments Against International Trade

    Revenue, Cost, and Profit

    The Production Function and Diminishing Returns

    Marginal Cost

    The Relationship Between Average Cost and Marginal Cost

    Graphing Costs

    Average Total Cost: Short Run and Long Run

    Isoquant Lines

    Isocost Lines

    Cost-Minimizing Combination of Labor and Capital

    Introduction to the Four Market Models

    Characteristics of Perfect Competition

    Revenue in Perfect Competition

    Perfect Competition Profit on the Graph

    Short Run Shutdown Decision

    Long Run Entry and Exit Decision

    Individual Supply Curve in the Short Run and Long Run

    Market Supply Curve in the Short Run and Long Run

    Long Run Equilibrium

    Perfect Competition and Efficiency

    Four Market Model Summary: Perfect Competition

    Characteristics of Monopoly

    Monopoly Revenue

    Monopoly Profit on the Graph

    Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss

    Price Discrimination

    Antitrust Laws and Government Regulation of Monopolies

    Mergers and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI)

    Four Firm Concentration Ratio

    Four Market Model Summary: Monopoly

    Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition

    Revenue in Monopolistic Competition

    Monopolistic Competition Profit on the Graph

    Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run

    Efficiency in Monopolistic Competition

    Advertising

    Four Market Model Summary: Monopolistic Competition

    Characteristics of Oligopoly

    One-Time Games and the Prisoner's Dilemma

    Game Theory and Oligopoly Profit

    Repeated Games

    Kinked-Demand Theory

    Four Market Model Summary: Oligopoly

    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

    Other Factors of Production: Land and Capital

    Unions

    Monopsony

    Bilateral Monopoly

    Income Inequality in the USA and Worldwide

    Poverty

    Polices to Reduce Poverty

    Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient

    Income Equality and Efficiency

    Asymmetric Information: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard

    Solutions to Informational Problems

    Budget Constraint

    Indifference Curves

    Indifference Curves for Perfect Substitutes and Perfect Complements

    Consumer Optimum Consumption: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curves

    Consumer Optimum Consumption: Marginal Utility per Dollar Spent