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Microeconomics
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Economics
Undergraduate 2
10/31/2012

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Term
Profit
Definition

TR-TC

 

(p * q)-(ATC * q)

 

q- (p - ATC)

Term

Marginal Revenue

 

Definition

ΔTR

ΔQ

Term
Accounting Profit
Definition
TR-implicit costs
Term
Diminishing Marginal Product
Definition
More and more workers will eventually lead to decreasing the amount of profit you make because it costs more to pay the workers than the profit you are making from the good.
Term
Monopolistic Competition Characteristics
Definition

-many buyers and many sellers

-differentiated product

-no barriers to entry

Term
Perfect Competition
Definition

-many buyers and many sellers

-no barriers to entry

-price takers

Term

Monopoly

 

Definition

-many buyers and a single seller

-high barriers to entry

-unique product

Term
Equilibrium of Perfect Competition
Definition
P=MR=MC=ATC
Term

(In a monopoly)

TR

Definition
P x Q
Term
4 Barriers
Definition

-government 

-control of a key resource

-network externality

-natural

Term

Breakeven Point

(monopoly)

 

Definition
P=minimum ATC
Term

Where do firms maximize profit?

(perfect competition)

Definition
MR=MC
Term
When P>ATC, firms will____
Definition
enter
Term
When P<ATC firms will____
Definition
leave market.
Term

When P=0, firms will____

 

Definition

be indifferent of whether to leave or not

 

Term

Breakeven Point 

(perfect competition)

 

Definition

P=minimum ATC

 

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