Microeconomics, Perfect Competition
1. Perfectly competitive firm cannot affect the market price Because all the products sold in the market are identical–any rise in price leads to loss of customers Because there are many buyers and sellers- so the firm isn’t the only firm which sells that...
Current Economics, Microeconomics
Everyday in our live we get to see something , somewhere and somehow related to Economics. Think about the cup of coffee your are having every morning, or the amount of sugar you are adding. About the telephone service you are using or internet package that enables me...
Central Bank Operations, Central Banking, Credit control by CB, Macroeconomics
Central bank exercises monetary policy to influence rate of interest, money supply and credit availability. Central bank use different tools to achieve the objective of controlling the availability of credit in economy. There are several quantitative tools through...
Microeconomics, Monopoly, Monopoly Output Decision
The output decisions in case of monopoly differ in respects of the time period or the length of time span through the monopoly firm is operating. There are two kinds of time periods; i. Short Run: It is a time period in which one of the variable is fixed i.e could not...
Basic Economics Goals, Current Economics, Macroeconomics, Statistics
All the countries around the world have certain targets for becoming an ideal and economically stable nation. Countries strive hard to achieve such targets or goals. Each country has its own issues associated with various factors that halt its development and growth....
Macroeconomics, Types of Unemployment, Unemployment
‘’Unemployment refers to the situation or conditions of an economy when skilled and qualified are willing to work at the current wage rate but they couldn’t get job’’ Unemployment effects an economy is an adverse manner. Unemployment has various kinds. Each kind of...
Kinked Demand Demand Theory, Oligopoly
Forms of Oligopoly There are two forms of oligopoly structure; i. Collusive Oligopoly: In such oligopoly few firms unite together through a formal or informal agreement. The example for formal agreement is cartels and the example for informal agreement is price...
Microeconomics, Monopoly, Monopoly Inefficiency
The economic inefficiencies of monopoly can also be regarded as demerits or disadvantages of monopoly. Monopoly is definitely a harmful element of an economy as a single firm rules over the economy and sets the prices of commodity, which has no substitute in the...
Cartel Theory, Microeconomics, Oligopoly
Background Oligopoly is the kind of market structure in function in which few firms, nearly from three to fifteen or more firms compete with each other for homogeneous products on the basis of product differentiation. If the products are homogeneous then it is called...
