
- •1.The role of Microeconomics
- •2. T he Subject Matter of Microeconomics
- •3. The use and limitation of Microeconomic theory
- •4. Economic methodology and microeconomic models
- •5. Equilibrium analysis
- •6. Positive and normative analysis
- •7. Demand Function(df): Individual df vs Market df
- •8. Change in Quantity Demanded, Change in Demand
- •9.Inferior, Normal and Superior Goods
- •10. Supply Function. Change in quantity supplied and Change in supply
- •11. Market equilibrium
- •12 Market Adjustment to Change: shifts of Demand and shift of Supply
- •Shifts of Demand
- •13. Changes in Both Supply and Demand
- •14. Cobweb theorem as an illustration of stable and unstable equilibrium
- •Unstable cobweb
- •Constant cobweb
- •15. Government regulation of a market
- •1. Price ceiling and Price floor
- •2. Impact of a tax on price and quantity
- •16. Price ceiling and Price floor
- •Impact of a tax on price and quantity
- •18. Demand elasticity. Price Elasticity Coefficient and Factors affecting price elasticity of demand
- •Table of price elasticity kinds of demand
- •19. Impact of demand elasticity on price and total revenue
- •20. Income elasticity of demand(yed)and Cross elasticity of demand
- •Categories of income elasticity:
- •21. The price elasticity of supply
- •22. Market adaptation to Demand and Supply changes in long-run and in short-run
- •24.Consumer Choice and Utility
- •25. Total Utility (tu) and Marginal Utility (mu)
- •26. Indifference curves.
- •28. The effects of changes in income and prices
- •29 Equimarginal Principle and Consumer equilibrium
- •30.Income Consumption Curve. Engel Curves
- •32. Income and Substitution Effects
- •The slutsky method
- •34. Production Function
- •35. Time and Production. Production in the Short-Run
- •36.Average, Marginal and Total Product. Law of diminishing returns
- •37. Producer’s behavior
- •38 Isoquant
- •39. Isocost
- •40. Cost minimization (Producer’s choice optimisation)
- •41.The treatment of costs in Accounting and Economic theory
- •Average costs. Marginal Cost
- •Long run average cost. Returns to Scale.
- •45Different market forms
- •48 The Competitive Firm and Industry Demand
- •49.Economic strategies of the firm in p-competitive m arket
- •50.Long run equilibrium
- •51.Definition of Monopoly Market. Causes of monopoly.
- •Patents and Other Forms of Intellectual Property
- •Control of an Input Resource
- •Capital-consuming technologies
- •Decreasing Costs
- •Government Grants of Monopoly
- •52.Monopoly Demand and Marginal Revenue
- •54. Monopoly Inefficiency
- •Negative consequences of Monopoly
- •55. "Natural" Monopoly
- •Government Ownership
- •56. Imperfect competition and Monopolistic competition
- •57. Profit Maximization in Monopolistic Competition
- •58. Oligopoly
- •59. Firms behavior in Oligopoly
- •60 Kinked Demand Model
- •61 Competitive factor markets
- •62 The Demand for Inputs
- •63 Supply of Inputs
- •64. Equilibrium in a Market for Inputs
- •Labour market
- •Land market
- •Capital market
- •65. Labor market: labor demand and supply of labor.
- •66.The Marginal productivity approach to demand for labor.
- •Equilibrium and disequilibrium on labor market.
- •68. Particularities of Land market. Differential rent. Marginal productivity of land.
- •69 Main characteristics of Asset market. Demand for capital. Interest rate.
- •70. Discounted value. Conceptions of Net present value (npv) and future present value (fv).
- •The role of Microeconomics
- •T he Subject Matter of Microeconomics
69 Main characteristics of Asset market. Demand for capital. Interest rate.
As we know, capital is more than just machinery, but it may be helpful to think in terms of a specific kind of machine. We may think of a tractor to be used on the potato farm. As we increase the number of machines in use, with the same amount of land and labor, output will increase, but at a decreasing rate. Capital, like the other inputs, is subject to diminishing returns. Once again, we will focus on the "marginal productivity" of the machines. On the other hand, the costs of using the machinery will also increase as the number of machines increases.
The machines will gradually wear out and will have to be replaced.
It is customary to deduct wear and tear from the output, so that the total and marginal productivity are net of wear and tear. But, for practical applications, we should remember that wear and tear is a real cost and must be taken into account.
The resources "tied up" in the machine have an opportunity cost.
The money laid out to buy the machines pays for the resources used in producing the machines. The money (and resources) will be recovered only gradually, using the machines to produce goods and services. However the money (and the resources) could be used for other purposes. For example, the investor might instead have bought a vineyard, which would produce a crop of wine grapes every year. It will not make sense to invest in the machine unless the net revenue from using the machine to produce goods and services is worth at least as much as the wine grapes. Similarly, the investor might instead have leant his money to someone else, to finance either production or consumption expenditures. It will not make sense to invest in the machine unless the net revenue from using the machine to produce goods and services is worth at least as much as the interest the investor could get on the loan.
Of course, capital includes many kinds of producers' goods, from tractors and other machines through grapevines and orchards and many intangible assets. What they all have in common is the opportunity cost corresponding to the interest rate. With that in mind, we identify the price of capital as the interest rate. The demand for capital is the marginal productivity of capital (net of wear and tear) times the price of output.
As for the supply of capital, that will depend on the decisions made by savers. Many economists believe that an increase in interest rates will result in an increase in saving and so in the quantity of capital supplied, giving an upward sloping supply curve of capital. However, for capital as for labor, it is logically possible that the supply curve (in the economy as a whole) could be backward sloping. For an individual industry, however, the supply of capital will probably be horizontal and correspond to the opportunity cost of capital in other industries.
Here is a diagram the demand for capital by an individual firm as it is sketched in the previous page. We assume that the firm uses a given quantity of labor and land and that the quantity of capital used varies. The quantity of capital used (measured in dollars' worth) is marked off on the horizontal axis. On the vertical axis is the rate of interest, which we understand as the price of capital.