BSBA-Economi - Basic Microeconomics: Summer Sem Ter 2019
BSBA-Economi - Basic Microeconomics: Summer Sem Ter 2019
BSBA-Economi - Basic Microeconomics: Summer Sem Ter 2019
ECONOMICS
- A Social Science which deals with human behavior towards Production,
Consumption and Distribution with proper allocation of scarce resources
to satisfy the unlimited needs and wants of man.
● Goods ● E ective
● E cient
● Services
FACTORS OF PRODUCTION
❏ Capita ❏ Labor
- It is Used to produce another - The time and effort exerted in the
product. process of production.
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MICROECONOMICS
Government Firm
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Product Market
● Invisible market: ● Physical/Structural Market
○ imparted as a Principle, exists when ○ A place, facility or infrastructure
a seller and a buyer meet and where the product is present.
transact business but only the idea ■ Perfect Competition
is present and the product may not ■ Oligopoly
be. ■ Monopoly
■ Monopolistic Competition
LAW OF DEMAND
3 Statements to Remember! Determinants of Demand:
★ If the Price of the commodity goes ➔ Income
down, the Willingness to buy goes ➔ Population
up. ➔ Taste
★ The relationship between Price and ➔ Consumer’s Future Expectations
Quantity is negative, ➔ Change in the Price of related
opposite/inverse. goods*(Substitute & Complementary)
★ Ceteris paribus*all things remain constant
Law of SUPPLY
3 Statements to Remember! Determinants of Demand:
➔ Change in the number of
★ If the Price of the commodity goes
Producers
down, the Willingness to produce
➔ Change in the price of Raw
goes up.
Materials
★ The relationship between Price and
➔ Producer’s Future Expectations
Quantity is positive,
➔ Technological Improvement
direct/immediate.
➔ Change in the Price of related
★ Ceteris paribus*all things remain constant
goods*(Substitute & Complementary)
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❏ PRICE CEILING
Price Tools - a legal maximum price that
can be sold to the market.
- used bY the Gov’t to intervene Causes shortage.
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