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CFA Level 1 - Economics

Price Elasticity of Demand Formula - answer(% Change in Quantity Demanded) / (%t
Change in Price)

Cross Elasticity of Demand Formula - answer (% Change in Quantity Demanded) / (%
Change in Price of Substitute or Complement)

Income Elasticity of Demand Formula - answer(% Change in Quantity Demanded) / (%
Change in Income)

Price Elasticity of Supply Formula - answer(% Change in Quantity Supplied) / (%
Change in Price)

Elasticity of Demand Factors - answer1) Availability of Substitute; 2) Relative amount of
income spent on the good; 3) Time SINCE price change

Elasticity of Supply Factors - answer1) Available substitutes for resources (inputs) used
to produce the goods; (2) the time that has elapsed since the price change

Income elasticity of an Inferior Good- Positive or Negative - answerNegative

Total Cost Formula - answer= Total Fixed Cost + Total Variable Cost

Average Fixed Cost Formula - answerAverage Fixed Cost = TFC/Q

Average Variable Cost Formula - answerAverage Variable Cost= TVC/Q

Average Total Cost Formula - answer= AFC + AVC

Unemployment Rate Formula - answer(Number of Unemployed) / (Labor Force) x 100

Labor Force Participation Rate Formula - answer(Labor Force) / (Working-Age
Population(16 or older) ) x 100

Employment to Population Ratio Formula - answer(Number of Employed) / (Working-
Age Population) x 100

CPI Formula - answer(Cost of Basket of Current Prices) / (Cost of Basket at Base
Period Prices) x 100

Inflation Rate Formula - answer% change in CPI

,(Current CPI- Year Ago CPI)/ (Year Ago CPI) X 100

Potential Deposit Expansion Multiplier Formula - answer= 1 / (required reserve ratio)

Potential Increase In Money Supply Formula - answer= (Potential Deposit Expansion
Multiplier) x (Increase in Excess Reserves)

Money Multiplier for a change in monetary base Formula - answer(1+c) / (d+c)
c = currency as a % of deposits
d = desired reserve ratio

Change in Quantity of Money Formula - answer(Change in Quantity of Money) =
(Change in Monetary Base) x (Money Multiplier)

Equation of Exchange Formula - answer= (Money supply) x (Velocity) = GDP = (Price) x
(Real Output)

Quantity Theory of Money Formula - answerPrice = M (V/Y)

What does it mean if Cross elasticity is positive - answerTwo goods are reasonable
substitutes for each other

What does it mean if Price Elasticity of Demand is less than one in absolute value? -
answerInelastic

What does it mean if Price Elasticity of Demand is greater than one in absolute value? -
answerElastic

Normal Goods Elasticity - answerPositive Income Elasticity (greater than 1)

Total Revenue Test - answerEstimate elasticity of demand:
P Up-> R Up (Inelastic);
P Up -> D Down (Elastic)

Cross Elasticity of Substitutes- Positive or Negative - answerPositive

Income Elasticity for normal goods- Positive or Negative - answerPositive

Income Elasticity for inferior goods- Positive or Negative - answerNegative

Command System - answerA central authority determines resource allocation, is used
in centrally planned economies and is also used within firms and in the military

Majority Rule - answerGovernment policies such as taxation and transfer payments are
an example of this type of resource allocation

, Efficient allocation of resources - answerMarginal Benefit to society (Demand) =
Marginal Cost for the "last" unit of each good and service to be produced (Supply). (MC
= MB)

Marginal Cost Formula - answer(Change in Total Cost) / (Change in Output)

Two Concepts of Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Symmetry) - answer1)
Governments must recognize and protect private property; 2) Private property must be
given from one party to another only when it is voluntarily done

When demand is less elastic than supply- consumers bear higher or lower burden -
answerHIGHER

When supply is less elastic than demand- consumers bear higher or lower burden -
answerLOWER, suppliers will bear a higher burden

Inelastic means more or less DWL - answerLess

Three Constraints to Profit Maximization - answerTMI 1) Technological, 2)
Informational, 3) Market Constraints

Technological Efficiency - answerOutput from least inputs

Economic Efficiency - answerOutput from least cost

Two ways that firms can organize production - answerCI 1) Command System, 2)
Incentive System

Command Systems - answerOrganization according to a managerial chain of
command, eg US Military [Told what to do]

Incentive System - answerSenior mangement creates a system of rewards intended to
motivate workers to perform in such a way as to maximize profits [Motivated to do]

Principal- Agent Problem - answerProblems that arise when incentives and motivations
or managers and workers (Agents) are not the same as the incentives and motivations
of their firms.

Three Methods used to reduce Principal-Agent Problem - answerOIL 1) Ownership, 2)
Incentive Pay, 3) Long-term contracts

Three Types of Business Organizations - answerPPC 1) Proprietorships, 2)
Partnerships, 3) Corporations

Four Types of Economic Markets - answerPMOM 1) Perfect Competition, 2) Monopolitic
Competition, 3) Oligopoly, 4) Monopoly

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