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    1. Microeconomics focuses on the behavior of individual consumers, firms, and industries


    as they operate in a market economy. It analyzes how these various groups respond to
    changes in prices that affect their consumption, production, and selling decisions. It
    also describes how firms and consumers interact in various types of markets and can be
    used as a basis for determining competitive strategies. Macroeconomics focuses on the
    overall economic environment in which businesses operate. It analyzes the spending
    decisions of different sectors of the economythe household, business, government,
    and foreign sectors. Macroeconomic policy deals with the issues of inflation,
    unemployment, and economic growth. Changes in the macroeconomic environment
    influence firms through the microeconomic issues of demand, cost, revenues, and
    profits.

    2. Outputs are the final goods and services that firms and industries sell to consumers.
    Consumers create a demand for all of these goods and services. Inputs are the
    resources or factors of production that are used to produce the final outputs. Inputs
    include land, labor, capital, raw materials, and entrepreneurship. Firms use of these
    inputs is related to the demand for their products.

    3. The four major types of markets are perfect competition, monopolistic competition,
    oligopoly, and monopoly. The key characteristics that distinguish these markets are: (1)
    the number of firms competing with each other,
    (2) whether the products sold in the markets are differentiated or undifferentiated,
    (3) whether entry into the market by other firms is easy or difficult, and
    (4) the amount of information available to market participants.

    4. In the model of perfect competition, firms are price-takers because it is assumed there
    are so many firms in each industry that no single firm has any influence on the price of
    the product. Each firms output is small relative to the entire market, so that the market
    price is determined by the actions of all suppliers and demanders. In the other market
    models, firms have an influence over the price. If they raise the price of the product,
    consumers will demand a smaller quantity; if they lower the price, consumers will
    increase the quantity demanded.

    5. In macroeconomics, the five major categories of spending are consumption (C),
    investment (I), government (G), export (X), and import (M). GDP = C + I + G + X M. The
    first four categories are added together, while import spending is subtracted because it
    represents a flow of expenditure out of the domestic economy to the rest of the world.

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