Essays on Dead Weight

Externalities take place when consumers/manufacturers activities have an unintentional or indirect impact on other consumers/manufacturers without affecting prices. According to Sankar, externalities may cause positive and negative effects (6). In other words, if the consumer or a group grants certain benefits to other economic agents, the externality is positive; if any activity is disadvantageous to other groups or individuals, then the externality is negative (7). According to Stiglitz (216), “Externalities arise whenever an individual or firm undertakes an action that has an effect on other individual or firm”. The externalities phenomenon tends to have a spillover effect in the ...

Comparative advantage refers to an economic situation to produce a good at the lowest opportunity cost. Here the trade exchange between China and USA shows how the Law of Comparative holds in real world. With the amount of trade taking place between two countries, the law holds that these trading partners are promoting their self interests by producing the goods for which they have low opportunity cost and trading another good for which they have high opportunity cost(CFA Institute 376).

Since USA and China have low opportunity cost to produce agricultural goods and machinery respectively. These countries are involved ...

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The paper dwells on general equilibrium theory by putting into perspective various critical issues. The origin of the concept of general equilibrium theory is illuminated dating back to neoclassical period. Moreover, various models such as Walras model of pricing and modern equilibrium model is also put into consideration. Finally, the importance and application of general equilibrium has also been discussed at length. General equilibrium theory refers to a concept modeled around theoretical economics. The modern general equilibrium takes into consideration three important interpretations which should be taken into consideration. The idea of general equilibrium theory cannot be complete when there ...

The junior staff all knew about it. I was the only one who had not heard about what the human resource was planning to do. The IT department would have to suffer a big blow in terms of getting new employees. The human resource department has recommended that a few heads should roll in light if the recent drop in performance. That was not the only reason as I came to find out. The company had to tighten its budget to fit in other projects that seem to be more lucrative to the organisation. This did not sit well with me ...

The Merger of American Airlines & U.S. Airways 1.0 Introduction A few really important days are worth keeping in mind in connection with the birth of the world’s largest airline. These dates are as given under This was the first phase only. The next step would cover synchronization of each company’s IT system and familiarity with each other’s different processes. However, even the most vocal supporters must have been relieved that day, as impediments were very much present and many a time victory was snatched from the jaws of defeat. (airlinegeeks.com, 4th Marcp014) 2.0 ...

In a market economy, monopolies tend to have only one seller. However, it is close to impossible to have a pure monopoly where there is only one firm in the global market. As a result, monopolies tend to be defined as a market with few firms competing against each other. These firms have the power to hold the price above the socially optimal point. This is known as the monopoly power. A monopolistic market does not have the luxury of free entry and exit of the market (Perloff, 2004, P.109). This is because most of these monopolistic companies have barrier to entry by ...

Microeconomic Analysis of Each Government Intervention

- US government intervention through tariffs The US government has opted to be actively controlling their country’s balance of payments through the use of tariffs aiming at discouraging importation of Chinese solar panels. This intervention has been established with a common goal to protect the US local industry and the manufactures of solar panels and the related products. As a result, the US government has levied custom duties on the Chinese products ranging from 2.9% to 4.73%. Although, this intervention comes with many advantages, particularly in protecting the domestic market and increasing government revenue, microeconomic analysis shows that ...

Question 1a

This is the benefit which a supplier gets upon selling a commodity. It is calculated as the difference in the amount that a supplier can accept to sell his commodity and the amount which the commodity is actually sold in the in the market.

Question 1 b

The increase in cost of commodity to sellers is seen leads to increase in price of a commodity in the market. If it is not possible to increase the price of a commodity supply curve shifts to the left indicating a decrease in quantity supplied (Depken,26).

Question 1 c

Producer surplus increases as price of a commodity increases. Question 2a Company D ...