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Sept 11 2017 quiz on some micro terms

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Opportunity cost   The alternatives that have to be done without in order to have an item.  
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Centrally planned economy   Where the state controls and directs all economic activity.  
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Factors of production   The resources required to produce goods and services.  
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Free Enterprise Economy   Where economic activity is undertaken by companies and indiviuduals who are free to operate without undue government interference.  
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Mixed Economy   Where state and private enterprises exist but the government exercises a certain amount of regulation.  
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External economies of scale   That factors that lower the average cost of production as the industry grows in size and that benefits all firms in the industry.  
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External diseconomies of scale   That factor that cause average cost of production to rise as output expands and that are common to every firm in the industry.  
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Internal economies   The factors that lower a firms average cost of production as the firm expands in size.  
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Internal diseconomies   The factors that cause a firms average cost of production to rise once the firms reaches a certain size.  
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Commodity markets   The markets where major commodities or raw materials are bought and sold.  
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Final market   A market that supplies goods and services that give consumers utility and for which they are willing to pay a price.  
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Intermediate market   A market where a good is sold to be used as an input in the production of another good.  
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Complemetary goods   Goods that are in joint demand. The use of one involves the use of the other.  
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Substitute good   Goods that satisfy the same need and so can be used instead of each other.  
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Capacity constraint   The physical limit to the quantity of good a firm is able to supply.  
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Perfectly inelastic supply   A situation where quantity supplied is fixed regardless of price.  
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Cross elasticity of demand   The responsiveness of the demand for one good to a change in the price of another good.  
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Income elasticity of demand   The responsiveness of demand for a good to changes in income.  
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Unit elasticity of demand   A good is said to have unit elasticity of demand if the proportionate change in quantity demanded is equal to the proportionate change in price.  
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Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns   If increasing quantities of a variable factor are combined with a given amount of a fixed factor eventually a stage will be reached where the addition to total output (that is, marginal output) will decline.  
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Marginal cost   The change in total cost as a result of producing one extra unit of output.  
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Supernormal profit (SNP)   Any profit received in excess of normal profit.  
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Free entry and exit   A situation where there are no restrictions preventing the entry of new firms to the industry or the exit of existing firms.  
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Long- run equilibrium   The combination of price and quantity that gives the firm the highest profit in the long run.  
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Short-run equilibrium   The combination of price and quantity that gives the firm the highest profit in the short run.  
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Barriers to entry   Obstacles preventing the arrival of new firms to compete with the monopolist.  
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Patent   A temporary monopoly granted to a company that has invented a new product or process so that it an recoup its costs before facing competition.  
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Price discrimination   The selling of the same good (or service) to different customers at different prices, where the difference in price is not caused by differences in costs.  
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Product differentiation   This is where the consumer can distinguish the product of one firm from that of all others because of branding of goods and competitive advertising.  
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Price rigidity   A reluctance on the part of the firm in oligopoly to change from the current price because any such change will cause a fall in total revenue.  
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