Marginal Costs and Benefits Marginal analysis is a technique used in microeconomics by which very small changes in specific variables are studied in terms of the effect on related variables and the system as a whole. Marginal costs and benefits are a vital part of economics because they help to provide the relevant measurement of costs and benefits at a specific level of production and consumption (McCain‚ 2008). This is the reason why I’ve chosen this topic for my paper. We use economics
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market power. Apply the quantity and price affects on revenue of any movement along a demand curve. Find the profit maximizing quantity and price of a single-price monopolist. Compute deadweight loss from a single-price monopolist. Compute marginal revenue. Define the efficiency of P = MC. Find the profit-maximizing quantity and price of a perfect-price-discriminating monopolist. Find the profit-maximizing quantity and price of an imperfect-price-discriminating monopolist. Question: Each
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Microeconomics Topic 6: “Be able to explain and calculate average and marginal cost to make production decisions.” Reference: Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Microeconomics‚ 2nd edition‚ Chapter 13. Long-Run versus Short-Run In order to understand average cost and marginal cost‚ it is first necessary to understand the distinction between the “long run” and the “short run.” Short run: a period of time during which one or more of a firm’s inputs cannot be changed. Long run: a period of time during which
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Explain how the strength of the economy as a whole could affect the marginal benefits and the marginal costs associated with a decision to purchase a home. How does the removal of the tax deduction on mortgage interest affect the housing market? The strength of the economy as a whole could affect the marginal benefits and the marginal costs associated with a decision to purchase a home. Here’s how. When the economy is growing‚ a consumer may feel that the purchase of a house is a good decision
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plants. The demand for your firm’s product is P = 78 - 15Q‚ where Q = Q1 + Q2. The marginal costs associated with producing in the two plants are MC1 = 3Q1 and MC2 = 2Q2. How much output should be produced in plant 1 in order to maximize profits? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 2. You are the manager of a firm that produces output in two plants. The demand for your firm’s product is P = 78 - 15Q‚ where Q = Q1 + Q2. The marginal costs associated with producing in the two plants are MC1 = 3Q1 and MC2 = 2Q2. What
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1i) Demand function for air travel between the U.S. and Europe has been estimated to be: ln Q = 2.737 - 1.247 ln P +1.905 ln I where Q denotes number of passengers (in thousands) per year‚ P the (average) ticket price and I the U.S. national income. Determine the price elasticity and income elasticity of demand (8 points). From Lecture Module 3 Equation 4 we learned the alternative formulation of elasticity. Alternative formulation of elasticity EP = dQ/dP * P/Q = dlnQ/dlnP Natural log:
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brand: please think about what you are saying about yourself when you do any work for someone else! 1. Consider a monopolist where the market demand curve for the produce is given by P = 520 – 2Q. This monopolist has marginal costs that can be expressed as MC = 100 + 2Q and total costs that can be expressed as TC = 100Q + Q2 + 50. a. Given the above information‚ what is this monopolist’s profit maximizing price and output if it charges a single price? Answer: MR = 520 – 4Q MC = 100 + 2Q 520
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Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) mechanism is one of the most commonly employed tools for market settlement in the deregulated power system environment. The proposed work is to determine LMP considering the transmission congestion in Optimal Power Flow (OPF) for an open access power market. The main function of LMP is to give an economic signal to the system operator for the competitive power market. The generator bids are supposed to same as their incremental costs in order to
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how scarcity‚ choice and opportunity cost are relevant when choosing amongst alternatives? 2. Define the concept of “opportunity cost” and discuss various examples. 3. Explain how the concept of opportunity cost may be used to explain the following: a) Why very few petrol stations are found in the centre of large cities. b) Why it might be worthwhile for a company to contract out work even though contracting out may involve a higher monetary cost. c) Why tourists pay higher prices
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product? A penetration approach? 3 What are some similarities and differences between skimming pricing‚ prestige pricing‚ and above-market pricing? 4 Touché Toiletries Inc. has developed an addition to its Lizardman Cologne line tentatively branded Ode d’Toade Cologne. Unit variable costs are 45 cents for a 3-ounce bottle‚ and heavy advertising expenditures in the first year would result in total fixed costs of $900‚000. Ode d’Toade Cologne is priced at $7.50 for a 3-ounce bottle. How many bottles
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