Microeconomics category: 693 books

Using the demanded schedule, determine the elasticity of demand for each price change.

"Imagine a society that produces military goods and consumer goods affectionately known as ""guns"" and ""butter"". a. Draw a production possibilities frontier for this economy.  Show a point that is: inefficient; efficient; impossible. Explain why...

Over the last several decades, there has been a growing interest in theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on all aspects of tax compliance and tax evasion. The essays in this volume summarize the existing state of knowledge of tax compliance and tax evasion, present new thinking about this...

Two and a half billion people worldwide, most of them desperately poor villagers, need a better way to save and to borrow. Even the most innovative banking institutions can’t reach them; savings groups can. In savings groups, members save what they can in a communal pot and loan their growing fund...

The New World of Economics, 6th edition, by Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, represents a revival of a classic text that, when it was first published, changed substantially the way economics would be taught at the introductory and advanced levels of economics for all time.  In a very real sense,...

"a. Fill in the missing data for price (P), total revenue(TR), marginal revenue (MR), total cost (TC), marginal cost (MC), profit (π), and marginal profit (Mπ) in the following table:b. At what output level is profit maximized? c. At what output level is revenue maximized? d. Discuss any differences in your answers to part B and C. "

"a)  Give the before-tax charcoal price and quantity exchanged. b)  Give the after-tax charcoal price to buyers, the quantity exchanged, and total tax revenues. c)  How is the tax divided among sellers and buyers? "

Deriving the marginal utility from consumption of goods and services for different prices and levels of consumption, as well as the optimal allocation of a budget.Optimal Expenditure. Consider the following data:

This book is concerned with recent developments in time series and panel data techniques for the analysis of macroeconomic and financial data. It provides a rigorous, nevertheless user-friendly, account of the time series techniques dealing with univariate and multivariate time series models, as well...

When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest for its accessible treatment of the rapidly growing field of efficiency and productivity analysis. The first several chapters,...

The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of pricing across industries, environments, and methodologies. The Handbook illustrates the wide variety of pricing approaches that are used in different industries. It also covers the diverse range of methodologies...

The topic of safety and security in the tourism industry is of vital importance globally. In recent years, and mainly after the 9/11 event, both academics and practitioners have started to look into crisis management issues seeking workable solutions in order to mitigate the negative impacts of safety...

First published in 1977, this is an applied economics text, in which the basic theory of any introductory economics couurse is applied to a whole range of UK macro- and micro-economic policy issues. The book is designed specifically for first and second year university students, with the aim of demonstrating...

Volume II proposes radical reform (1) of the accounting system – to bring corporate management under the control of market forces; and (2) of the tax system – to enable the economy to grow to its full potential and to establish an automatic mechanism for price stability without any arbitrary intervention.