Resource Costs (Labor) 1

Resource Costs (Labor) 1 

Ok, just put this section together,, more to come. Comments,, wcwaugh@aol.com

Government Intervention Cheat Sheet

Government Intervention Cheat Sheet

A cheat sheet is no replacement for doing all of the FRQ's on Government Intervention, go to the AP's exam website and do all of the FRQ's.  AP Microeconomic Exam

Tariff - (World Price) - 20014, 2012, 2004, 2004B, 2003B

Price Ceiling - 2006B

Price Floor - ?

Per Unit Tax -2010, 2005, 2004

Subsidy - 2005B

Elasticity (XED,YED) Cheat Sheet

Elasticity (XED,YED) Cheat Sheet 

Market Failure Cheat Sheet

Externality Cheat Sheet

The APis fairly straight forward asking about externalities/ market failure but they do tweak it a bit by asking how dead weight loss DWL is effected by certain solutions (Tax, subsidy, lump-sum tax, etc.) Be prepared.
meet-up tonight at 6pm in Stanley @ Pacific Coffee
http://www.meetup.com/Hong-Kong-AP-Economics/
Welcome if you are in HK.

Externality Check list,
When crafting a diagram, make sure that all necessary parts are added for the readers.
I made this checklist for the IB exams but it works equally well for the AP.

Elasticity Cheat Sheet 1 (PED, TR, PES)

Elasticity Cheat Sheet 1 (PED, TR, PES)

 Ok, I finally got started on a Elasticity cheat sheet, covering PED. Total Revenue and PES. Number two will cover YED & XED. I'm sure I will change this in some fashion in the next few days but it's a good start. I really need some way of being able to download this stuff to a site that others can snatch it off of,,, any suggestions? (Email me - wcwaugh@aol.com)

Demand & Supply - Cheat Sheet

Demand & Supply - Cheat Sheet

I haven't in the past actually created a cheat sheet for the Demand & Supply section of the AP economics course. Anyway here it is,, will update it with my own graphs over time. 

Efficiency and the Relationship between Price & Marginal Costs

Efficiency

Productive Efficiency - goods are produced in the least costly way.

Allocative Efficiency – where the right amount (according to society) is produced.

Allocative Efficiency  P = MC , MC = P

·       Money price is society’s measure of the relative worth of the unit.  (price is the benefit)

·       An additional unit of a products value must include what could possibly have been made (opportunity cost)

If price is equal to marginal cost then the right goods (according to society) are being produced. 

Under-allocation  P > MC , MC < P

If price is more than the marginal cost there is an underproduction of goods (society wants more). Society values more of what is being produced than what could alternatively be produced with the same resources.

Over-allocation P < MC , MC > P

If price is less than marginal cost there is an overproduction of goods (society wants less). Society values what could be produced alternatively than how the resources are being presently used.

Notice, that the price is the same as Demand and Price are the same for Perfect Competition. 

• Quantity of production (output) is what you should focus on,,, as we produce more (Q3) than the price consumers are willing to pay or marginal costs increase quickly. We are overproducing in relation to the price. 
• If the price (quantity produced at that price, Q1) is above our marginal costs we are not at an allocatively efficient quantity,, we are underproducing. 

Perfect Competition (2008) Multiple Choice

Perfect Competition (2008) Multiple Choice

2008

2008#11 - A#24 - B#26 - C#27 - C#38 - E#54 - D

Perfect Competition (2005) Multiple Choice

Perfect  Competition (2005) Multiple Choice

2005

#9 - B

#24 - E

#25 - C

#40 - A

#41 - A

#49 - E

Perfect Competition (2000) Multiple Choice

Perfect Competition (2000) Multiple Choice

2000

2000

#3 - E

#8 - C

#23 - B

#24 - B

#25 - C

#26 - E

#39 - C

#47 - C

#54 - A

Output & Costs (1995,2000,2005,2008) Multiple Choice

Output & Costs (1995,2000,2005,2008) Multiple Choice

1995

2000

2005

2008

1995

#6 – C

#7 – D

#8 – A

#22 – E

#52 – B

2000

#6 – C

#7 – E

#22 – C

#36 – E

#37 – C

#38 – B

2005

#6 – A

#8 – A

#10 – B

#21 – E

#36 – B

#37 – A

#51 – B

#52 – D

#54 – A

2008

#6 – C

#23 – C

#36 - B

#37 – C

#50 - C

Government Intervention (1995,2000,2005,2008) Multiple Choice

Government Intervention (1995,2000,2005,2008) Multiple Choice

1995

2000

2005

2008

1995

#3 - A

#15 - A

#50 - E

2000

#18 - B

#19 - C

#27 - B

#45 - B

#49 - B

#57 - E

2005

#4 - C

#15 - C

#18 - C

#44 - A

2008

#3 - D

#14 - C

#32 - A

#43 - A

#44 - B

#60 - B