This course will enable the students to acquaint students with the concepts and theories of microeconomics, and develop their understanding of market structures for making price and output decisions.
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24 FSG123 |
Micro Economic Analysis (Theory) |
CO13 Analyze the Concept of Utility and Consumer equilibrium CO14 Evaluate the concept of demand to identify the changes in market demand. CO15 Examine optimum cost and production function for a business CO16 Examine the various market conditions to take decision on optimum profit, price and output for a firm. CO17 Integrate the concept and theories of production interest and profit. CO18 Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction
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Approach in teaching:
Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Case Studies
Learning activities for the students:
Field activities, Presentation, Debates, Role-Playing |
Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving Numerical problems in tutorials, Assignments, Class Presentation |
• Micro Economic Fundamentals: Meaning and Definition, scope of micro economics Difference and Inter Dependence of Micro and Macro Economics.
• Role of micro and macroeconomics in the formulation of business policy
• Utility Approach- concept of utility, Law of Diminishing marginal utility, Law of Equi Marginal Utility
• Indifference Curve Approach: concept, properties of indifference curve, consumer equilibrium, price effect, income and substitution effect
• Demand analysis: -Law of demand, elasticity of demand, degree of elasticity, methods of measuring elasticity
• Cost Analysis: types of cost , short run and long run cost curves
• Revenue: Concept and types
• Law of Production- Meaning of Production, Law of Variable Proportions, Returns to scale, Isoquants: Properties of isoquants, isoquants and return to scale
• Market: Meaning, Characteristics of Market.
• Price and Output determination under: Perfect Competition, imperfect competition, Monopoly, Discriminating Monopoly, Oligopoly (Kinked demand curve)
• Duopoly and Monopsony- Definition and features
• Marginal productivity theory of distribution: Concept, price determination in perfect & imperfect market
Interest: Types of interest, Keynesian theory of interest and modern theory of interest
• Profit: concept of profit, uncertainty theory of profit, modern theory of profit
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E- Resources:
1. Managerial economics:William F. Samulson, Stephen G. marks
2. UG pathshala: https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=0YyNXHI8GPO8SUQIuYNt...
3. NPTEL Video:https://youtu.be/vLPpF0hunwc
4. EPWRF India Time Series, www.epwrfits.in
5. https://www.economicsonline.co.uk/
6. https://www.publicationsdivision.nic.in/journals/
7. Economic and Political Weekly, www.epw.in
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10. Economics, De Gruyter Open Access
11. International Journal of Economics and Business Research, Inderscience Publishers