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Unit 2.1-2.4: Review terms

Review of terms for unit 2.1-2.4: Competitive markets

I have included this page, which contains a PDF handout as a simple revision exercise.  I find that many IB students get a degree of comfort from these short summary handouts.

Unit 2.1-2.4 review questions

Enter the correct term into each of the blanks to complete the sentence.

1. Fill in the missing blanks:

  represents the quantity of goods and services that consumers are willing and     to purchase at a given time, at a given 

willing  able  ceteris paribus  Demand  Price 

 

 

2. Fill in the missing blanks:

  represents a rise in either quantity supplied / demanded, along the original supply or demand curve.

Extension  Movement  A shift 

 

 

3. Fill in the missing blanks:

represents the amount over and and above market price that a consumer is willing and able to purchase a good or service for.

 Producer surplus  Consumer surplus  Surplus

 

 

4.Fill in the missing blanks:

represents the point where supply = demand, in other words the resources employed by firms to produce a good or service is exactly    to the number of units that consumers are willing and able to 

 Equilibrium  Market equilibrium  totals  purchase  equal  Surplus 

 

 

5.Fill in the missing blanks:

represents the quantity of goods and services that producers are willing and     to produce at a given time, for a given  .

 price  ceteris paribus  Demand  Supply  Price  able

 

 

6. Fill in the missing blanks:

represents the cost to a firm of producing one additional good or service.

 Marginal cost  Total cost  Cost

 

 

7. Fill in the missing blanks:

A   in either supply or demand means that the demand / supply function shifts either to the left or right. 

change  shift 

 

 

8. Fill in the missing blanks:

represents the additional utility a consumer enjoys from consuming an additional unit of a good or service.

Utility  Total utility  Marginal utility

 

 

9. Fill in the missing blanks:

represents the amount over and above market price that a producer is willing and able to produce a good or service for.

 Surplus  Producer surplus  Consumer surplus

 

 

10. Fill in the missing blanks:

means all other other things being equal and is one of the assumption that economists make when measuring the impact of a change to one of the determinants of supply or demand.

 Market surplus  Ceteris paribus

 

 

11. Fill in the missing blanks:

Market disequilibrium represents the point when the market is not     efficient, because the market has either a surplus of    or an    of demand.  At most prices planned demand does not equal planned  .

 supply  supply  productively  allocatively  demand  excess  extra

 

 

12. Fill in the missing blanks:

A movement along the demand curve, caused by a shift in  , OR a movement along the supply curve, caused by a shift in  .

supply  demand  shift  

 

 

13. Fill in the missing blanks:

represents a fall in quantity supplied / demanded, along the original supply or demand curve.

 Extension  Contraction  A shift

 

 

14. Fill in the missing blanks:

  is equal to consumer plus producer surplus.

 Market surplus  Community surplus  Surplus

 

 

15. Fill in the missing blanks:

     and    - when an individual must choose a number, but the number is influenced by the person having just heard a different number. This then affects the decision-making process.  framing  anchoring  nudging  behavioural  

 

 

16. Fill in the missing blanks:

Bounded rationality - the idea that   is limited by the cognitive limitations of the mind and   available to make the decision. As a result decision makers act as    , seeking a satisfactory solution rather than an    one. time  optimal  theory  rationality  nudge   satisficers  

 

 

17. Fill in the missing blanks:

      - assumes consumers are able to exercise self-control, but unable to do so with some decisions.    selfishness  self-control  bounded  rationality  

 

 

18. Fill in the missing blanks:

       - most easily expressed as a concern for the well-being of others, e.g. giving to charities or helping a stranger, despite this expenditure offering no direct benefit to the consumer. selfishness  self-control  bounded  rationality  

 

 

 

Total Score:

Available as a handout at:  2.1-2.4 review terms

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