IB/AP Economics Unit 1 Introduction to Economics Introduction to Economics AP and IB Economics Unit 1 Definitions of social science and economics Definitions of microeconomics and macroeconomics Definitions of growth‚ development and sustainable development Positive and normative concepts Ceteris paribus Scarcity • factors of production: land‚ labor‚ capital and management/entrepreneurship • payments to factors of production: rent‚ wages‚ interest‚ profit Choice Utility: basic definition Opportunity
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Ho Wei ACS (International) Extended Essay Subject: Economics Word Count: 3988 Investigation Question To what extent do the Singapore Government’s policies on housing and immigration‚ help to increase the demand of the private property sector in the housing market. Abstract The research question of this Economics Extended Essay is‚ “To what extent does the Singapore Government’s policies on housing and immigration‚ help to increase the demand of the private property
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EXTENDED ESSAY BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH QUESTION: “How effective would the takeover of Motorola mobility be for Google as a growth strategy?” Candidate name: Candidate number: School name: School number: Supervisor: Date submitted: Word count: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I would like to thank my extended essay supervisor for her continuous support throughout this assignment. Her guidance and patience have been of great help to me in completing this task. I would also like to thank
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Oil rises above $103 ahead of Iran nuclear talks Published: Thursday‚ 12 Apr 2012 | 5:43 AM ET SINGAPORE - Oil prices rose above $103 a barrel Thursday in Asia as traders looked to negotiations this weekend over Iran’s nuclear program. Benchmark oil for May delivery was up 42 cents to $103.12 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.68 to settle at $102.70 in New York on Wednesday. Brent crude for May delivery
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Section A a. Explain the concept of dominant strategy equilibrium. 1. http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~jkchoi/game4.pdf 2. http://econweb.umd.edu/~borowitz/dominant_strategy_equilibrium.pdf b. Discuss the concept of Nash equilibrium. 1.http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/igt/nash.pdf 2. http://www.columbia.edu/~rs328/NashEquilibrium.pdf c. Is every dominant strategy equilibrium a Nash equilibrium? 1. http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/game-theory/nash-equilibrium
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1 EXTENDED ESSAY Business and management RESEARCH QUESTION: How efficient would it be for BP Mwanza‚ Tanzania to introduce pricing strategies such as penetration pricing to drive out their competitors in Mwanza‚ Tanzania. Candidate name: Zafar Mohamed Iqbal Abdullah Osman
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Chapter -1 1. The study of microeconomics includes the study of - Output and employment growth as markets expand in reaction to a rising price level in the economy. - Business investment and government spending in the marketplace. - The number of new jobs and income created as the economy grows. - How firms‚ workers‚ consumers‚ and investors interact and make decisions in the marketplace. Microeconomics is the study of the behavior of individual economic units: consumers‚ firms‚ workers
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MICROECONOMICS CHAPTER 1 The Market Economy What is to be done? —Lenin When future historians look back on the close of the 20th century‚ one of the most sweeping changes they will note is the collapse of centrally planned economies in Eastern Europe. It is not far off to say that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was won not by the armies of the United States and its allies‚ but by the productive power of Western market economies. Mikhail Gorbachev‚ then leader of the Soviet
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IB Extended Essay DRAFT | An Evaluation of Empathy | Its Effects and Its Role in Charitable Donations | | Laura Albert | Word Count: 4590 | | Table of Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Empathy and Human Motivation 5 Analysis of Donations 9 Empathy’s Effect 13 Conclusion 17 Refrences 20 Abstract Every individual‚ whether they may recognize or not‚ is controlled by their ability to empathize. This paper focuses on one’s ability to empathize and the effect that
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Microeconomics study guide Chapter 6 Notes: Firms and Production A firm converts inputs into outputs What firms want: 1. Profit : π = R - C 2. efficient production to maximize π -efficient production alone is not sufficient to ensure a firm’s π is maximized How they are organized 1. information exchange 2. incentives for workers Production Function q = f(L‚K) relationship b/w quantities of inputs used & max quantity of output that can be produced given current knowledge about
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