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Microeconomics
ECON 2302
Spring 2011
Marilyn Spencer, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Final Exam Review
Chapters 1-6 & 10-14
Who should consider taking the
Final Exam?
1. If you missed any of the 3 exams during the
term, you MUST take the final exam.
2. All others:
a. You need to see how very close your total points take
you to the grade you desire.
b. Then it’s a good idea to look at the spread between
your lowest exam score any your highest exam score.
c. If the spread exceeds your need for additional points,
you’re more likely to meet your goal by taking the
final. But, if not, you might do very well just by
studying very hard.
Planning to Take the Final? You need
to let me know!
YOU MUST EMAIL ME by 12 noon, Monday, May 9,
to tell me you plan to take the Final Exam.
Final Exam Week Office Hours:
4-5:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 4
12:30-2 p.m., May 5
3-5 p.m., Tuesday, May 10
3-5 p.m., Wednesday, May 11
And by appointment
Optional Final Exam
Test format (same as all other exams):
20 multiple choice questions
Resources sheet to indicate any additional resources
used – same resource choices as for previous exams
Questions include definitions, theory & applications. –
Expect graphs and numbers.
60-minute time period
Scantron answer sheet provided
Chapter 1 EXAM QUESTION TOPIC
Scarcity
Chapter 2 EXAM QUESTION TOPICS
Production possibilities frontier
Opportunity cost
Comparative advantage
Chapter 3 EXAM QUESTION TOPICS
Variables that affect demand & supply
Change in demand or supply that
change the equilibrium
Chapter 4 EXAM QUESTION TOPICS
Consumer & producer surplus
Price floors & ceilings
Effects of a tax or government subsidy
Chapter 5 EXAM QUESTION TOPICS
Causes and effects of externalities &
market failures
Common resource problem
Public goods/free rider problem
Chapter 6 EXAM QUESTION TOPICS
Elasticities of demand
Price elasticity of demand
Income elasticity of demand
Cross price elasticity of demand
Determinants of price elasticity of demand
Elasticity of demand and total revenue
Taxes and elasticity of demand
Chapter 10 EXAM QUESTION TOPICS
only in the context of chapters 11-14
Family of SHORT RUN cost curves: ATC,
AFC, AVC, MC
LONG RUN: Returns to scale/efficient scale
Chapters 11, 12 & 14 EXAM QUESTIONS
Perfectly competitive v. monopolistically
competitive v. monopoly markets:
Assumptions/conditions
Profit maximization/loss minimization
Barriers to entry
Effects of long run entry and exit
Efficiency
Government antitrust
Chapter 13 EXAM QUESTION TOPICS
Barriers to entry
Game theory to explain oligopoly behavior
Non-cooperative games
Dominant strategy
Nash equilibrium
Prisoners’ dilemma
Cooperative games
Collusion
Cartel
Price leadership
Any questions on
these topics?
Questions about
anything else?