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Economics Examples
CH33
Externalities
CH34
Economies of scale - Car production has many processes that require
- Specialisation division of labour and specialising in producing a
certain part. Specialised workers require less
training of workers and a more efficient production
process.
UNIT/SUBUNIT EXAMPLES
CH37
Differing objectives
and policies of
firms Groupon, a global American e-commerce business that
- Sales revenue connects people to different activities such as theme parks,
maximisation concerts and so on. Their logic is that sales will increase to
W.J. Baumol the point they will make a profit by investing heavily on
advertising.
UNIT/SUBUNIT EXAMPLES
CH40
Labour markets
- Wage - Comparing wages of lawyers and McDonald’s
determination workers.
- Lawyers get paid higher as their supply is inelastic
CH?
Price discrimination - 3rd degree pricing
- Broadband charges consumers a higher
price at renewal than at original purchase
due to default bias, where consumers
assume that there are no other substitutes
available, therefore providing a lower
coefficient of PED.
- 3 graphs of ped
Third degree PD
- Travel tourism industry
CH47.2 - QE in the UK
Effectiveness of - UK adopted quantitative easing during the Great
monetary policy Recession in 2009, reducing interest rates to 0.5%
(QE) failed
- This occurred due to low credit, low animal spirits
and lack of willingness of banks to lend.
CH?
Privatisation
Reducing
unemployment
through Apple recently opened a 300-acre factory in Karnataka to
globalisation create 100,000 jobs which involve building iPhones
CH44
Money & Banking
2008 Financial crisis:
- Easy credit and low interest rates that led to
excessive borrowing and lending.