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.
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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
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represents a rise in either quantity supplied / demanded, along the original supply or demand curve.
Extension Movement A shift
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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
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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
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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
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represents the cost to a firm of producing one additional good or service.
Marginal cost Total cost Cost
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A in either supply or demand means that the demand / supply function shifts either to the left or right.
change shift
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represents the additional utility a consumer enjoys from consuming an additional unit of a good or service.
Utility Total utility Marginal utility
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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
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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
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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
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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
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represents a fall in quantity supplied / demanded, along the original supply or demand curve.
Extension Contraction A shift
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is equal to consumer plus producer surplus.
Market surplus Community surplus Surplus
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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
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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
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- assumes consumers are able to exercise self-control, but unable to do so with some decisions. selfishness self-control bounded rationality
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- 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
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