Managerial Economics 3
Chapter 03 - Markets, Organizations, And The Role Of Knowledge
CHAPTER 3
MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER SUMMARY This chapter answers three primary questions: How do market systems work? What are the relative advantages of market systems compared to central planning in large economies? Why do we observe so much economic activity conducted within firms in market economies? In addition to covering the basic principles of exchange and supply-and-demand analysis, the chapter introduces two concepts that are critical to the subsequent development in the book: specific knowledge and contracting costs. The chapter also makes the important point that individuals have incentives to choose value-maximizing organizational arrangements. An appendix presents the basics of present value analysis and the valuation of common stock. It also discusses the concept of stock market efficiency. This appendix provides useful background material (for example, when instructors want to discuss the stock market reactions to events).
CHAPTER OUTLINE GOALS OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS PROPERTY RIGHTS AND EXCHANGE IN A MARKET ECONOMY Dimensions of Property Rights Managerial Application: Patent for Priceline.com Managerial Application: Property Rights Insecurity in Columbia Gains from Trade Managerial Application: While Animosity between the Governments of Venezuela and the U. S. Grow, So Does Trade Managerial Application: Strategic Business Planning—Ignoring Economics of Trade Academic Application: Gains from Trade BASICS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND The Price Mechanism Managerial Application: Shifts in Demand, Quantity, and Price at the PGA Tournament Linear Supply and Demand Prices as Social Coordinators Managerial Application: Supply of Online Resumes Bogs Down Employers Measuring the Gains from Trade Government Intervention Price Controls Price Floors Academic Application: Labor Unions and Minimum Wage Laws Externalities and the Coase Theorem
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Chapter 03 - Markets,
CHAPTER 3
MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER SUMMARY This chapter answers three primary questions: How do market systems work? What are the relative advantages of market systems compared to central planning in large economies? Why do we observe so much economic activity conducted within firms in market economies? In addition to covering the basic principles of exchange and supply-and-demand analysis, the chapter introduces two concepts that are critical to the subsequent development in the book: specific knowledge and contracting costs. The chapter also makes the important point that individuals have incentives to choose value-maximizing organizational arrangements. An appendix presents the basics of present value analysis and the valuation of common stock. It also discusses the concept of stock market efficiency. This appendix provides useful background material (for example, when instructors want to discuss the stock market reactions to events).
CHAPTER OUTLINE GOALS OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS PROPERTY RIGHTS AND EXCHANGE IN A MARKET ECONOMY Dimensions of Property Rights Managerial Application: Patent for Priceline.com Managerial Application: Property Rights Insecurity in Columbia Gains from Trade Managerial Application: While Animosity between the Governments of Venezuela and the U. S. Grow, So Does Trade Managerial Application: Strategic Business Planning—Ignoring Economics of Trade Academic Application: Gains from Trade BASICS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND The Price Mechanism Managerial Application: Shifts in Demand, Quantity, and Price at the PGA Tournament Linear Supply and Demand Prices as Social Coordinators Managerial Application: Supply of Online Resumes Bogs Down Employers Measuring the Gains from Trade Government Intervention Price Controls Price Floors Academic Application: Labor Unions and Minimum Wage Laws Externalities and the Coase Theorem
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Chapter 03 - Markets,