Production Function

A production function indicates the highest output Y that a firm can produce for specific combination of input. We have many factors of production used as inputs but for simplicity we will focus only on labor and capital as a factor of production. Keeping this...

Production Decisions of a firm

Now we have demand side of the market and the supply side. From the word supply we do understand very easily that we are going to discuss about the or examine the behavior of Producers. We will see how firms can produce efficiently and how their costs change with the...

Network Externalities

Much of what basic microeconomics discusses is that a demand for a good is independent of somebody elses demand for that same good. For Example,  Adam’s demand for a new car depends on Adam’s tastes and income, the price of the car and perhaps the price of other...

Income and Substitution Effect

A fall in the price of a Good has two effects: Consumers will buy more of a good that is cheaper and less of the good which has become expensive. This consequence to a change in the price of a relative good is called the Substitution effect. Secondly When a good...