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CLEP Microeconomics
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1. When the last unit produced costs the same as the benefit recieved by consumers
PPF Curve
Change in Quantity Demanded
Allocative Efficiency
Price Ceiling
2. Average Total Cost
Short Run
ATC
Markets
Consumer Utility Maximization
3. Average Fixed Cost
Law of Demand
TFC
AVC
Market Equilibrium
4. A model that shows the flow of goods and services and the interaction among households - businesses - and banks
Circular Flow Model
Allocative Efficiency
Change in Quantity Demanded
Total Revenue
5. Land - Capital - Labor - Entrepreneurship.
Cross Elasticity of Income
Four Factors of Production (Imputs)
Short Run
Elastic
6. A cost that requires an outlay of money.
AVC
Economy of Scale
Explicit Cost
Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
7. Average Fixed Costs (Declines as output increases.)
AFC
Cross Elasticity of Demand
Law of Demand
Economy of Scale
8. A measure of the sensitivity of demand to changes in price
Price Elasticity
Total Revenue
Trade-Off
Circular Flow Model
9. Free Market - Traditional - Command - Mixed Markets.
Types of Economic Systems
Law of Supply
Price Elasticity of Supply
Law of Increasing Opportunity Cost
10. A legal minimum on the price at which a good can be sold
Types of Economic Systems
Budget Income Limits
Elastic
Price floor
11. Limited quantities of resources to meet unlimited wants
Budget Income Limits
Four Factors of Production (Imputs)
Market Equilibrium
Scarcity
12. A situation in which quantity demanded equals quantity supplied
Market Equilibrium
Change in Supply
Circular Flow Model
Law of Increasing Opportunity Cost
13. The situation in which a good or service is produced at the lowest possible cost
Change in Quantity Demanded
Needs
Productive Efficiency
Price floor
14. A period during which at least one of a firm's resources is fixed
Productive Efficiency
Consumer Utility Maximization
Short Run
Elastic
15. An alternative that we sacrifice when we make a decision
Consumer Utility Maximization
Explicit Cost
Productive Efficiency
Trade-Off
16. Factors other than price that determine the quantities demanded of a good or service
Implicit Cost
Law of Increasing Opportunity Cost
Shortage
Determinants of Demand
17. To produce more of one good - a successively larger amount of the other good must be sacrificed
Law of Increasing Opportunity Cost
Implicit Cost
Change in Quantity Supplied
Price Ceiling
18. Determines and classifies the relationship between income and demand for a good or service.
Cross Elasticity of Income
Price Ceiling
Change in Demand
TVC
19. A change in supply that is shown by drawing a new supply curve
Change in Supply
Productive Efficiency
Surplus
Change in Quantity Supplied
20. As supply increases - prices go down; as supply decreases - prices go up.
Law of Supply
Shortage
Types of Economic Systems
Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
21. Allocating one's income so that the marginal utility/price of the last units obtained of each good are equal
Budget Income Limits
Price Elasticity of Supply
Total Revenue
Consumer Utility Maximization
22. Describes demand that is very sensitive to a change in price
Scarcity
Elastic
MC
Explicit Cost
23. Things that are required in order to live
Needs
Equilibrium Price
Law of Supply
Long Run
24. The price that balances quantity supplied and quantity demanded
Equilibrium Price
Shortage
Explicit Cost
TFC
25. A movement along the demand curve that occurs in response to a change in price
Long Run
Change in Quantity Demanded
Determinants of Demand
Surplus
26. Total Fixed Cost
TFC
Equilibrium Price
Price Elasticity
Implicit Cost
27. Total Variable Cost
TVC
Determinants of Demand
Price Elasticity
Change in Supply
28. The more you produce the less it costs and the cheaper the product is for the consumer.
Implicit Cost
Economy of Scale
Short Run
Explicit Cost
29. A change in demand that is show by drawing a new demand curve
Change in Demand
Price Elasticity
Circular Flow Model
Shortage
30. Those things which make our lives more comfortable but are not needed for survival
Total Revenue
Wants
Determinants of Supply
Allocative Efficiency
31. Factors other than price that determine the quantities supplied of a good or service.
Law of Demand
Inelastic
Determinants of Supply
Cross Elasticity of Income
32. A period of time of sufficient length that all the firm's factors of production are variable
Long Run
TFC
Law of Demand
Types of Economic Systems
33. A maximum price that can be legally charged for a good or service
Equilibrium Price
Price Ceiling
Elastic
Allocative Efficiency
34. A movement along the supply curve that occurs in response to a change in price
Trade-Off
Change in Quantity Supplied
Cross Elasticity of Income
Economy of Scale
35. A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded
Surplus
Price floor
Wants
Law of Demand
36. Measures the relationship between change in quantity supplied and a change in price.
Implicit Cost
Price Ceiling
Price Elasticity of Supply
Equilibrium Price
37. The impact of price changes on the quantity demand of a good or service by gauging the effect on the total revenue the firm will generate
Price Elasticity of Supply
Price Elasticity
Equilibrium Price
Cross Elasticity of Demand
38. As successive units of a variable input are added to a fixed input - beyond some point the marginal product declines
Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
Price Ceiling
Explicit Cost
Markets
39. The decision to buy one thing instead of another.
Economic Choice
Determinants of Supply
Change in Quantity Supplied
Trade-Off
40. Describes demand that is not very sensitive to a change in price
TFC
Inelastic
Needs
Markets
41. A situation in which quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied
Budget Income Limits
Shortage
Types of Economic Systems
TVC
42. The total amount of money a firm receives by selling goods or services
Total Revenue
Price Ceiling
Circular Flow Model
Law of Supply
43. Divisions of the economy that specialize in certain goods or services
Change in Demand
Markets
Inelastic
Elastic
44. The maximum amount an individual is willing to pay in a specific scenario
Budget Income Limits
Consumer Utility Maximization
TVC
Productive Efficiency
45. An opportunity cost incurred by a firm when it uses a factor of production for which it does not make a direct money payment
Implicit Cost
Change in Supply
Shortage
Cross Elasticity of Income
46. Marginal Cost
MC
Law of Demand
Inelastic
Shortage
47. (Production Possibilities Frontier) A graph that shows the possibilities of combinations of goods and services
PPF Curve
Wants
Change in Quantity Demanded
Consumer Utility Maximization
48. As demand increases - prices go up; as demand decreases - prices go down.
Law of Demand
AVC
Equilibrium Price
Wants
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