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1 AP Microeconomics Course Overview Name Description AP Microeconomics AP Microeconomics studies the behavior of individuals and businesses as they exchange goods and services in the marketplace. Students will learn why the same product costs different amounts at different stores, in different cities, at different times. They ll also learn to spot patterns in economic behavior and how to use those patterns to explain buyer and seller behavior under various conditions. Microeconomics studies the economic way of thinking, understanding the nature and function of markets, the role of scarcity and competition, the influence of factors such as interest rates on business decisions, and the role of government in promoting a healthy economy. The equivalent of a 100-level college course, AP Microeconomics prepares students for the AP Exam and for further study in business, history, and political science. The content aligns to the scope and sequence specified by the College Board and to widely used textbooks. Teacher role All students enrolled in this course are assigned to a "section" and have a teacher who is charged with ensuring student success and addressing student questions, problems, and concerns, as well as with grading student assignments, tests and the final examination. In addition, all students have a "mentor" who is available in their school or home and helps keep the student on track for completing the materials in a timely manner. Prerequisites Algebra II Recommended for qualified AP students Length One semester Materials The majority of the required instructional material for this course is available to students online and is equivalent to a college-level textbook. These materials were created and owned by our company. In addition, the following is an optional purchase: Tucker, I. B., ed. (2005) Microeconomics for Today, 4 th Edition. Mason, OH: Thomson/ South-Western. Alternate edition also acceptable: 3 rd edition, The following key should help you understand the different types of activities students engage in during the course: Activity type Diagnostic Discuss Exam Practice Quiz Review Study Description Pre- or post-test used to help students assess their mastery and understanding of the material introduced in the unit. Students discuss topics in an online bulletin-board style forum. Teachers participate in these discussions as well and students receive credit for their participation. Test administered at semester's end covering all material from the course. This exam is graded by the teacher and not only tests student understanding of the course material, but is also designed to be a practice run for the AP exam itself. Students answer questions regarding what they have learned thus far. These assignments are graded by the teacher, who provides relevant feedback. Computer-administered and automatically graded assessment. Review of the material covered in a unit or over a semester Primary instructional online content that teaches new concepts through

2 Test multimedia and interactivity. Assessment covering the material introduced in a unit, which is graded by the teacher. Course Syllabus Unit 1: What Is Economics? The content in this unit maps to the following sections of the College Board's Advanced Placement topic outline: I. Basic Economic Concepts A. Scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost D. Economic systems Topics covered in this unit: What Is Economics? Scarcity, Wants, and Resources Scarcity and Value Markets Graphs Equations Intercepts and Slopes Three Fundamental Questions Different Ways to Organize an Economic System The U.S.: A Mixed Economy Four Economic Goals Lesson 1: What Is Economics? Describe the format of this course and the skills you'll need to do well. Explain what economics is a study of. Define macroeconomics and microeconomics. Define scarcity. Define resources, goods, services, and markets. List and explain the three questions that every economic system must answer. Explain the three basic economic systems and explain how they each answer the three basic economic questions. Explain why the term mixed economies describes the nature of most modern economic systems. Explain the goals of economic policy: efficient use of resources, price stability, full employment and economic growth. Explain the role of price in indicating the relative scarcity of a good. Read and interpret graphs. Define independent variable and dependent variable. Take data from a table and make a graph. Define origin, intercept, and slope. Determine a line's slope. Solve an equation.

3 Take data from a graph or table and show it in an equation. Practice Introducing Microeconomics Discuss Why Study Economics? Study Introduction to Economics Discuss Scarcity and Value Study Economic Tools: Graphs and Equations Study Economic Systems Go over the format and goals of the course. See how to succeed in the course and what to expect on the AP exam. Introduce yourself to your classmates and discuss with them your definition of economics and your reasons for studying it. Explore the basics of economics, including goods, services, markets, and a fundamental concept of economics: scarcity. Discuss the concepts of scarcity and value with your classmates. Review basic concepts about graphs, equations, slopes and intercepts and see how to apply these skills as you work with income graphs and formulas. Examine the major questions every economic society faces and explore the different ways traditional, command, and mixed economies answer address these questions. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content introduced in this lesson. Lesson 2: Wrap-Up Define each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Explain the significance of each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Apply concepts you learned in this unit to specific questions. Review What Is Economics? Practice What is Economics? Discuss Cram Session Test What Is Economics? Review your studies of basic economic terms and concepts presented in this unit. Review common economic terms. Discuss economic terms and other concepts about which you are unclear. Take a 50-minute, teacher-graded test covering the main concepts introduced in this unit. The test includes both multiple-choice and free-response questions. Lesson 3: Diagnostic Diagnostic What Is Economics? Test your understanding of the key concepts covered in unit 1. Unit 2: Basic Economic Concepts The content in this unit maps to the following sections of the College Board's Advanced Placement topic outline: I. Basic Economic Concepts A. Scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost B. Production possibilities curve C. Comparative advantage, absolute advantage, specialization, and trade

4 E. Property rights and the role of incentives F. Marginal analysis Topics covered in this unit: Net Benefits and Self-interest Costs Are Opportunity Costs Sunk Costs Positive and Normative Economics The Production Possibilities Frontier PPF and Opportunity Costs Absolute and Comparative Advantage Trade between Individuals Specialization Production Possibilities Frontier for an Economy International Trade: A Positive View International Trade: A Normative View The Scientific Method & Difficulties Economics and Special Experimental Difficulties Theories and Models Four Types of Models Lesson 1: Costs, Benefits, and PPF Relate how scarce resources and unlimited wants make decisions necessary. Explain the ideas of self-interest and net benefits. Define the concept of opportunity cost. Explain sunk costs and relate them to the idea of marginal analysis. Distinguish between positive and normative economics. Interpret a graph called a production possibility frontier and explain how it's used to demonstrate scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost. Define the law of increasing opportunity costs. Relate the PPF to the concepts of efficiency, opportunity cost, and the law of increasing opportunity cost. Study Costs and Benefits Discuss Weighing Costs and Benefits Study Production Possibilities Frontier Practice Investigate the PPF Practice Apply Concepts of Basic Economics Examine definitions of opportunity costs and sunk costs as well as benefits and the idea of selfinterest. Analyze decision alternatives by considering the opportunity costs and by using marginal analysis as well as positive and normative analysis. Discuss how you would weigh costs and benefits in various situations. See how economists use a Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) graph to analyze the opportunity costs of a decision and its efficiency. Investigate the PPF curve and factors that affect it in this interactive, scored, online activity. Use the tools of the PPF and marginal analysis to answer questions about production, cost, trade, and value. Draw and explain graphs and send your work to your teacher for grading.

5 Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content covered in this lesson. Lesson 2: Production and Trade Define and explain the concept of absolute advantage. Define and explain the concept of comparative advantage. Explain how specialization causes interdependence and trade. Explain why voluntary trade is beneficial to all parties in an exchange. Identify the key ideas of national production and trade, including the benefits of specialization, the relationship between economic growth and the PPF, shifts of the PPF, and advantages and disadvantages of free trade. Study Individual Production and Trade Practice Investigate the Absolute and Comparative Advantage Discuss Comparative Advantage Study National Production and Trade Practice Apply Concepts of Production and Trade Investigate issues related to specialization and trade. Explore the use of absolute advantage and comparative advantage to rank the ability of producers to create goods. Practice calculating comparative and absolute advantage in this scored, interactive, online activity. With your classmates, raise and discuss questions regarding comparative advantage. Examine specialization, opportunity costs, and the Production Possibilities Frontier, as they each relate to trade. Analyze production and trade decisions and consider positive and normative views of international trade. Apply the concepts of comparative advantage and specialization to questions about individual and national production. Send your work to your teacher for scoring. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content presented in this lesson. Lesson 3: The Scientific Tools of Economics Describe how economists use the scientific method to study economic problems. Recognize research pitfalls. Recognize the special difficulties economists face when checking theories and give examples of each. Explain how models are used as a simplified representation of reality. Explain the two goals of an economic model: explanation and prediction. List and explain the four ways that models can be described: verbal, numeric, graphic, and algebraic. Study The Scientific Method Discuss Economics and the Scientific Method Study Theories and Models See how economists and other scientists use the scientific method to develop theories and test their ideas. Examine definitions of ceteris paribus and self-interest. Discuss the particular challenges faced by economists using the scientific method. Explore the various ways ideas can be represented

6 as models. Look at four types of models: verbal, numeric, graphic, and algebraic. List the characteristics of good models and explore the nature of economic models. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content introduced in this lesson. Lesson 4: Wrap-Up Define each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Explain the significance of each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Apply concepts you learned in this unit to specific questions. Review Basic Economic Concepts Practice Basic Economic Concepts Discuss Cram Session Test Basic Economic Concepts Review your studies of basic economic concepts as presented in this unit. Review the key terms and concepts introduced in this lesson. Discuss basic economic concepts and areas about which you are unclear. Take a teacher-scored, 50-minute test covering the main concepts introduced in this unit. The test includes both free-response and multiple-choice items. Lesson 5: Diagnostic Diagnostic Basic Economic Concepts Test your understanding of the key concepts covered in unit 2. Unit 3: Demand, Supply, Elasticity, and Choice The content in this unit maps to the following sections of the College Board's Advanced Placement topic outline: II. The Nature and Function of Product Markets A. Supply and demand 1. Market equilibrium 2. Determinants of supply and demand 3. Price and quantity controls 4. Elasticity a. Price, income, and cross-price elasticities of demand b. Price elasticity of supply 5. Consumer surplus, producer surplus, and market efficiency B. Theory of consumer choice 1. Total utility and marginal utility 2. Utility maximization: equalizing marginal utility per dollar 3. Individual and market demand curves 4. Income and substitution effects Topics covered in this unit:

7 Demand Schedule and Curve Law of Demand Determinants of Demand Change in Demand and Change in Quantity Demanded Supply and Supply Curve Law of Supply Determinants of Supply Change in Supply and Change in Quantity Supplied Markets and Market Equilibrium Excess Demand and Excess Supply Price Ceilings and Floors Price Effect of Change in Demand Equilibrium Effect of Change in Supply Simultaneous Changes in Demand and Supply Price Elasticity of Demand Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand Price Elasticity of Supply Determinants of Supply Elasticity Other Elasticities Consumer Surplus Lesson 1: Demand Define the economic concept of demand. Explain and compile a demand schedule. Create a demand curve. Define the law of demand. Explain the income effect and substitution effect. List and explain the determinants of demand. Show and explain changes in demand due to changes in the determinants of demand. Define different categories of goods: normal and inferior goods and substitute and complement goods. State and show graphically the difference between a change in the quantity demanded and a change in demand. Study Demand Practice Investigate Demand Study Determinants of Demand Practice Investigate Shifts of Demand Explore the basics of consumer demand, model demand in a table, and see how to make a demand curve. Develop an understanding of the income and substitution effects and define demand. Practice using demand schedules and demand curves in this scored, online, interactive activity. See what affects consumer demand and how those effects are shown on a graph. Learn about a change in quantity demanded versus a change in demand and develop an understanding of the determinants of demand. Also explore terms used to classify good, such as "normal goods," "inferior goods," "complement goods," and "substitute goods." Practice shifting demand curves in a scored

8 Curves Practice Apply Concepts of Demand and Shifts of Demand Curves interactive activity. Answer questions on demand and the determinants of demand. Send your work to your teacher for grading. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content covered in this lesson. Lesson 2: Supply Define the economic concept of supply. Explain and compile a supply schedule. Draw a supply curve. Define the law of supply, including the role of increasing costs. List and explain the determinants of supply. Show and explain changes in supply due to changes in the determinants of supply. State and be able to represent graphically the difference between a change in the quantity supplied and a change in supply. Study Supply Practice Investigate Supply Study Determinants of Supply Discuss Another Determinant of Supply? Practice Investigate Shifts of Supply Curves Practice Apply Concepts of Supply and Shifts of Supply Curves Examine supply curves and see how to make one as you learn about the law of supply. Define supply and explore how the supply curve is the best choice of quantity at each market price. Practice using supply schedules and supply curves in this scored online interactive activity. See what affects suppliers' decisions to make and sell a good or service and how to show the effects graphically. Learn to differentiate between a change in quantity supplied and a change of supply and develop an understanding of the determinants of supply. Explain your opinion about a possible addition to the list of determinants of supply the number of suppliers in the market. Investigate how to shift supply curves in this scored interactive activity. Answer questions on supply and the determinants of supply, provide graphs and explanations, and send your work to your teacher for scoring. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content covered in this lesson. Lesson 3: Market Equilibrium and Price Determination Define markets and the idea of market competition. Define and explain equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity, and explain why equilibrium is a stable condition, ceteris paribus. Explain how demand and supply interact to determine equilibrium price and equilibrium

9 quantity. Explain excess demand and excess supply. Explain the effect of a price ceiling on a market and define a shortage. Explain the effect of a price floor on a market and define a surplus. Predict and show graphically the effect of a change in demand, a change in supply, or a change in both on the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity. Explain the adjustment process in the market when supply changes, demand changes, or both change. Study Market Equilibrium Practice Investigate Market Equilibrium Study Changes in Equilibrium Practice Investigate Changes in Equilibrium Practice Apply Concepts of Market Equilibrium Look at supply and demand curves together as you explore the concept of market equilibrium. Develop an understanding of how price ceilings and price floors affect the market and how price functions to ration a product. Practice finding and indicating market equilibrium in an online interactive scored activity. See how changes in supply and demand affect market equilibrium and investigate price floors and price ceilings. Practice shifting supply and demand curves, and notice how the shifts affect market equilibrium in this scored interactive activity. Answer questions about market equilibrium, focusing on issues of price floors and ceilings and the adjustment to equilibrium. Send your work, including graphs and explanations, to your teacher for grading. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content introduced in this lesson. Lesson 4: Elasticity and Consumer Choice Define elasticity. Calculate price elasticity of demand and explain the relationship between elasticity and total revenues. Explain the differences between elastic, inelastic, and unit elastic demand. Identify and explain the determinants of price elasticity of demand. Calculate and explain price elasticity of supply. Explain the characteristics of an elastic, inelastic, and unit elastic supply. Explain the determinants of the elasticity of supply. Explain income elasticity of demand and relate it to normal and inferior goods. Explain cross-price elasticity of demand and relate it to substitute and complement goods. Define utility and explain how it's measured and used. Explain the differences between marginal utility and total utility. Relate the concepts of utility to the shape of the demand curve. Explain the relationship between the downward-sloping demand curve and the law of diminishing marginal utility. Explain the relationship between allocating income and maximizing utility using marginal utility per dollar. Explain and show consumer surplus graphically.

10 Study Price Elasticity of Demand Practice Investigate Elasticity of Demand Study Price Elasticity of Supply and Other Elasticities Practice Investigate Elasticity of Supply and Other Elasticities Practice Apply Concepts of All Elasticities Study Utility Practice Investigate Utility and Consumer Surplus See how to measure consumer sensitivity to price changes. Differentiate between elastic, inelastic and unit elastic demand. Explore the determinants of price elasticity of demand and the relationship between elasticity and total revenue. Investigate elasticity of demand as well as the relationship between elasticity and total revenue in this online interactive activity. Examine producer sensitivity to price changes, consumer sensitivity to income and the prices of related goods. Differentiate between elastic, inelastic and unit elastic supply. Explore the determinants of price elasticity of supply and how income elasticity of demand is used to categorize goods as normal or inferior. Also, explore how cross-price elasticity of demand is affected by the change in price of a complement, substitute and non-related good. Practice calculating price elasticity of supply, and examine income and cross-price elasticity in this scored interactive activity. Answer questions about price elasticity of supply and demand, income elasticity of demand, and cross-price elasticity of demand. Submit your work to your teacher for evaluation. Examine the concepts behind the economic definition of consumer satisfaction: utility and consumer choice. Define marginal and total utility and explore how knowing these help consumers maximize utility. Also define and calculate consumer surplus. Practice using the ideas of utility, and explore consumer surplus on a graph in an interactive scored activity. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content introduced in this lesson. Lesson 5: Wrap-Up Define each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Explain the significance of each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Apply concepts you learned in this unit to specific questions. Review Demand, Supply, Elasticity, and Consumer Choice Practice Demand, Supply, Elasticity, and Consumer Choice Discuss Cram Session Review your studies of demand, supply, elasticity, and consumer choice as presented in this unit. Review common terms (referring to demand, supply, elasticity, and consumer choice) introduced in this unit. Discuss demand, supply, elasticity, and

11 Test Demand, Supply, Elasticity, and Consumer Choice consumer choice and any areas about which you are unclear. Take a teacher-scored, 50-minute test covering the main concepts introduced in this unit. It includes both multiple-choice and freeresponse questions. Lesson 6: Diagnostic Diagnostic Demand, Supply, Elasticity, and Consumer Choice Test your understanding of the key concepts covered in unit 3. Unit 4: Firm Production, Costs, and Revenue The content in this unit maps to the following sections of the College Board's Advanced Placement topic outline: II. The Nature and Function of Product Markets C. Production and costs 1. Production functions: short and long run 2. Marginal product and diminishing returns 3. Short-run costs 4. Long-run costs and economies of scale 5. Cost minimizing input combination D. Firm behavior and market structure 1. Profit: a. Accounting versus economic profits b. Normal profit Topics covered in this unit: Firms Sole Proprietorship, Partnerships, and Corporations Other Business Organizations Explicit and Implicit Costs Measures of Profit Production in the Short Run Fixed and Variable Resources Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns Total, Marginal, and Average Product Curves Short Run and Long Run Cost Curves Economies and Diseconomies of Scale Lesson 1: Firm Production Define the most common legal forms of business organization. Define explicit and implicit costs and relate these costs to the different types of profits accounting profit, economic profit, and normal profit. Define the difference between the long run and the short run. Define marginal product and relate changes in marginal product to changes in total product, or total production. Explain increasing and decreasing marginal returns.

12 Study Business Organization Study Costs and Profits Discuss Costs and Profits of Your Own Business Study Production in the Short Run Practice Investigate Production in Short Run Explore the three most common legal forms of business organizations sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Examine the concepts behind the economic definition of costs and profits. Learn about three kinds of profit: accounting profit, normal profit, and economic profit and learn about implicit costs. Choose a type of organization for your own business and discuss issues of cost and profit. See how firms make their decisions about production in the short run. Explore difference between the short run and the long run and the difference between variable and fixed factors of production. Examine how diminishing marginal product relates to cost and learn how the marginal and average product curve relate to one another and to the total product curve. Practice creating marginal product curves, and answer questions about the production of a firm in the short run in this interactive scored exercise. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content covered in this lesson. Lesson 2: Costs in the Short Run and Long Run Define, calculate, and graph total fixed cost, total variable cost, marginal cost, and total cost. Define, calculate, and graph average fixed cost, average variable cost, and average total cost. Explain the relationship between marginal cost and marginal returns. Explain the relationship between marginal cost and average variable cost, and marginal cost and average total cost. Explain the relationship between the firm's short-run and long-run average-total-cost curves. Define economies and diseconomies of scale, and list some of the sources of each. Relate economies of scale to the number of firms in an industry. Explain how the shape of the long-run average-total-cost curve is influenced by economies of scale, diseconomies of scale, and constant returns to scale. Study Costs in the Short Run Practice Investigate Costs in the Short Run Study Costs in the Long Run Examine the costs a firm faces in the short run. Learn about the difference between fixed costs and variable costs. Explore several "total" and "average" costs based on fixed and variable cost. Learn how fixed, variable, and marginal costs change with production and differentiate between marginal and average costs. Practice using tables and graphs with the different short-run cost information for a firm in an interactive scored exercise. Focus on the long-run costs of a firm, particularly a firm's long-run average cost curve and see how the

13 Practice Investigate Costs in the Long Run Practice Apply Concepts of Short-Run Costs, Long-Run Costs, and Profit shape of this curve is affected by "economies of scale." Explore how economies and diseconomies of scale relate to increasing and decreasing marginal returns and how the long-run average cost curve relates to the short-run average cost curves. In this interactive scored exercise, practice identifying economies of scale and use short-run cost curves to create a long-run cost curve. Answer questions about the production and costs faced by a firm in the long and short run. Submit your work, including tables and graphs, to your teacher for grading. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content covered in this lesson. Lesson 3: Wrap-Up Define each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Explain the significance of each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Apply concepts you learned in this unit to specific questions. Review Firm Production, Costs, and Revenue Practice Firm Production, Costs, and Revenue Discuss Cram Session Test Firm Production, Costs, and Revenue Review your studies of production and costs as covered in this unit. Review common terms (referring to production and costs) introduced in this unit.. Discuss production and costs and any areas about which you are unclear. Take a teacher-graded, 50-minute test covering the main concepts introduced in this unit. The test includes both multiple-choice and free-response items. Lesson 4: Diagnostic Diagnostic Firm Production, Costs, and Revenue Test your understanding of the key concepts covered in unit 4. Unit 5: Market Structure The content in this unit maps to the following sections of the College Board's Advanced Placement topic outline: II. The Nature and Function of Product Markets D. Firm behavior and market structure (25 35%) 1. Profit: c. Profit maximization: MR=MC rule 2. Perfect competition a. Profit maximization b. Short-run supply and shutdown decision c. Behavior of firms and markets in the short run and in the long run d. Efficiency and perfect competition 3. Monopoly

14 a. Sources of market power b. Profit maximization c. Inefficiency of monopoly d. Price discrimination e. Natural monopoly 4. Oligopoly a. Interdependence, collusion, and cartels b. Game theory and strategic behavior 5. Monopolistic competition a. Product differentiation and role of advertising b. Profit maximization c. Short-run and long-run equilibrium d. Excess capacity and inefficiency Topics covered in this unit: Perfectly Competitive Markets Short-Run Competition and Profits Minimizing Short-Run Losses Long-Run Perfect Competition Efficiency Monopoly and Monopolistic Marginal Revenue Monopolistic Profit Maximization, Efficiency, and Competition Price-Discriminating Monopolies Natural Monopolies and Product Differentiation Oligopoly and Market Concentration Oligopolistic Profit Maximization Oligopoly Models Oligopoly and Perfect Competition Perfect Competition and Monopolistic Competition Mergers Government Regulation, Antitrust Legislation, and Deregulation Lesson 1: Perfect Competition List the characteristics of perfect competition. State why price, marginal revenue, and demand are all equal for a perfectly competitive firm. Explain and graphically show profit maximization for a perfectly competitive firm, including the market supply and demand curves and the firm's demand, marginal revenue, marginal cost, average-variable-cost, and average-total-cost curves. Show the profits of a perfectly competitive firm on a graph, and show the break-even and shutdown points for the firm in the short run. Derive the short-run supply curve for a firm in a perfectly competitive market and the short-run market supply curve in a perfectly competitive market. Explain the difference between economic profits in the short run and in the long run for a perfectly competitive firm, and explain the relationship between economic profits and free entry and exit that brings about long-run equilibrium. Describe the long-run supply curves for constant cost, increasing cost, and decreasing cost industries. Relate allocative efficiency to the perfectly competitive market.

15 Study Perfect Competition, Part 1 Practice Investigate Perfect Competition, Part 1 Study Perfect Competition, Part 2 Practice Investigate Perfect Competition, Part 2 Practice Apply Concepts of Perfect Competition Explore the characteristics of perfectly competitive markets, including why perfectly competitive firms can't set their own prices. Focus on is the relationship between price, marginal revenue, and demand in the context of a perfectly competitive firm. Learn how to determine the price and output of a perfectly competitive firm in the short run. Investigate the characteristics of the perfect competition market structure and practice calculating profit maximization in this scored interactive exercise. Discover how perfectly competitive firms operate, look into the questions of when a perfectly competitive firm will choose to shut down and at what levels of output they break even or make a profit, and discuss why perfectly competitive firms make only a normal profit in the long run. In this interactive, scored activity, practice working with the perfect competition graphs, including the long-run situation and the issue of efficiency. Answer questions about perfect competition and sent your work, including graphs, to your teacher for grading. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content covered in this lesson. Lesson 2: Monopoly and Monopolistic Competition Explain the characteristics of a monopoly. Calculate, graph, and explain the relationship between a monopoly's demand curve, its marginal revenue curve, and its average revenue curve. Demonstrate graphically the monopoly's profit-maximizing price and output level. Show on a graph the monopolist's profits and determine the location of the ATC and AVC that will cause the firm to operate at a loss or shut down. Explain why monopolists don't have supply curves. Explain how and why a monopoly may produce with allocative inefficiency. Explain how and why a monopoly may produce with productive inefficiency. Define price discrimination and explain the market conditions that allow price discrimination to occur. Explain the costs and benefits of price discrimination to firms and consumers. Explain why the government grants exclusive rights to natural monopolies in exchange for the right to regulate production and pricing of these companies on the goods and services they provide. Describe government regulation of natural monopolies. Define the characteristics of monopolistic competition. Determine the output, price charged, and profit of a monopolistic competitor in both the short run and long run. Define market power and explain how product differentiation increases a monopolistic competitor's market power.

16 Explain allocative and productive efficiency in a monopolistic competition market. Study Monopoly Practice Investigate Monopoly Study Monopolies: Special Cases Practice Investigate Natural and Price- Discriminating Monopolies Practice Apply Concepts of Monopolies Study Monopolistic Competition Practice Investigate Monopolistic Competition Discuss the characteristics of monopolies, as well as the conditions that make a monopoly possible. Look at the relationship between the demand curve and marginal-revenue curve in the context of a monopoly. Learn how monopolies choose their price and output levels and explore why some people say that monopolies are inefficient. In this online, interactive, scored exercise, practice drawing marginal-revenue curves, and find the profit-maximizing level of output for a monopolist. Examine the basics of price discrimination, discuss how governments regulate monopolies and learn about natural monopolies. Investigate the cost curves of a natural monopoly, and work on profit maximization when the monopolist can price discriminate in this scored interactive exercise. Answer questions about monopolies and send your work, including graphs, to your teacher for grading. Examine the monopolistic competition market, and find out about product differentiation. Consider the market conditions that must exist for a market to be monopolistically competitive and how these competitors can increase their market share as well as how they set their output to maximize profit. Also, you will learn how to identify monopolistic competitors. Practice finding the profit-maximizing level of output for a monopolistic competitor, and answer questions about that market structure in this scored interactive activity. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content presented in this lesson. Lesson 3: Oligopoly Explain the characteristics of an oligopoly. Explain how interdependence among firms in an oligopoly leads to strategic behavior by those firms. Analyze cartels and explain the incentives to cheat on a collusive agreement. Explain the game theory approach to pricing in an oligopoly, including the prisoner's dilemma and tacit collusion. Describe the price leadership, or dominant firm, model of an oligopoly. Describe cost-plus pricing. Use the kinked demand curve model to explain price stability in an oligopoly. Study Oligopoly See the main characteristics of an oligopoly and find out about profit maximization in an oligopoly. Consider how oligopolists set their prices and output levels.

17 Practice Investigate Oligopoly Study Oligopoly Models Practice Investigate Oligopoly Models Practice Apply Concepts of Oligopoly and Oligopoly Models Answer questions about oligopolies in a scored interactive exercise. Examine how to categorize the main types of oligopoly interaction. Look at how interdependence of firms can lead to collusion, price leadership, or price rigidity among the firms. Learn about cost-plus pricing, kinked demand curves, cartels and game theory. While examining the different oligopoly models in this scored interactive activity, practice working with graphs and tables. Answer questions about the oligopoly market structure and send your work, including graphs, to your teacher for grading. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content covered in this lesson. Lesson 4: Comparing Markets and Imperfect Competition Understand the differences and similarities between the four basic market structures. Explain market concentration and the relationship between market concentration and market power. List and explain the three types of mergers. Explain the reasons for government regulation. List and explain the major antitrust laws. State the reasons the government is currently deregulating many industries. Study Market Structures and Mergers Practice Investigate the Different Market Structures Study Government and Imperfect Competition Discuss Market Structures Review the four market structures and their characteristics and explore the role of mergers in market structures. Differentiate between the three types of mergers horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate. In this interactive scored exercise, work with graphs showing all the market structures and investigate their similarities and differences. See what actions the government takes to limit anti-competitive practices in the market and examine the major antitrust legislation that's been passed in the U.S. Explore the pros and cons of government regulation of firms. With your classmates, discuss issues related to the main types of market structures. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content presented in this lesson. Lesson 5: Wrap-Up Define each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Explain the significance of each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Apply concepts you learned in this unit to specific questions.

18 Review Market Structure Practice Market Structure Discuss Cram Session Discuss You Be the Teacher! Test Market Structure Review your studies of perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly as presented in this unit. Review common terms referring to market structure. With your classmates, discuss market structure and any areas about which you are unclear. Make suggestions for completing a correctly answered but incomplete AP-style question about a perfectly competitive market. Take a 50-minute, teacher-scored test covering the main concepts introduced in this unit. Both multiple-choice and free-response questions are included. Lesson 6: Diagnostic Diagnostic Market Structure Test your understanding of the key concepts covered in unit 5. Unit 6: Factor Markets The content in this unit maps to the following sections of the College Board's Advanced Placement topic outline: III. Factor Markets A. Derived factor demand B. Marginal revenue product C. Labor market and firms hiring of labor D. Market distribution of income Topics covered in this unit: Derived Factor Demand Marginal Revenue Product Marginal Cost Shifts of Factor Demand Determinants of Elasticity of Factor Demand Allocation of Resources Wages, Salaries, and Earnings Labor and Market Structures Labor Unions Rent Interest Profit Lesson 1: Derived Factor Demand Define derived demand and explain why the demand for a factor of production is a derived demand. Explain why the price of resources is important. Construct and explain a marginal-physical-product curve and a marginal-revenueproduct curve, assuming perfect competition in both factor and product markets. Construct a marginal-physical-product curve and a marginal-revenue-product curve,

19 assuming imperfect competition in both factor and product markets; compare this with the same graph for a situation of perfect competition in both markets. Explain the principle a profit-maximizing firm uses to determine the quantity of a resource to employ. Explain the relationship between the marginal revenue product and the demand for an input and relate the factor demand to the idea of diminishing marginal returns. State reasons for a change in factor demand. List and explain the determinants of elasticity of factor demand. Explain the method for finding the least-cost combination of resources and demonstrate your ability to use it. Explain the method of maximum-profit combination of resources and demonstrate your ability to use it. Study Factor Demand, Part 1 Practice Investigate Factor Demand Study Factor Demand, Part 2 Practice Investigate Shifts in Factor- Demand Curves Practice Apply Concepts of Factor Demand Discuss the marginal revenue product and marginal resource cost and examine the derived factor demand curve and its relationship to the marginal revenue product curve. Practice deriving a factor demand curve in this scored interactive activity. Explore the determinants of factor demand and the determinants of the elasticity of factor demand. Draw shifts in the factor demand curve, and calculate elasticity of factor demand in an interactive exercise. Answer questions on derived factor demand and send your work to your teacher for a grade. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content covered in this lesson. Lesson 2: Special Topics in Factor Demand Explain the difference between wages, salaries, and earnings. Explain why wages differ among occupations and workers. Compare the wage level and level of employment in a competitive labor market to those levels in a monopsonistic labor market. Analyze the effects of minimum wage laws on labor markets. Analyze the effects of labor unions on labor markets. Define economic rent. Explain what determines the amount of economic rent paid. Define interest, interest rate, nominal interest rate, and real interest rate; relate interest to the loanable funds market where money is borrowed for the purchase of capital goods, and money is loaned in return for interest. Study Labor Practice Investigate Labor Markets Examine the main issues regarding the demand for labor, including labor unions and monopsonistic labor markets. Differentiate between wages, salaries, and earnings, or compensation and discuss the reasons a worker would take a lower paying job over a higher paying job. Explore the characteristics of a perfectly competitive labor market and see how these differ from a labor market in which there's only one buyer of labor and examine the effect minimum wage laws and unions have on employment and wage levels. In this scored, interactive activity, compare the

20 Study Rent, Interest, and Profit Practice Apply Concepts of Factor Demand outcomes of a regular labor market with a monopsonistic labor market, and answer questions about labor unions. Explore the main issues regarding the non-labor factors of production in the factor market: land, capital and entrepreneurial talent. Explore the markets for land and capital, including the payments made to the owners of capital. Consider interest rates and the role of inflation. Discuss economic rent, especially in relation to nonrenewable resources. And finally, learn the different measures of profit and the role profit plays in resource allocation. Answer questions about the demand for the factors of production and send your work to your teacher for scoring. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content presented in this lesson. Lesson 3: Wrap-Up Define each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Explain the significance of each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Apply concepts you learned in this unit to specific questions. Review Factor Markets Practice Factor Markets Discuss Cram Session Discuss You Be the Teacher! Test Factor Markets Review your studies of factor demand as presented in this unit. Review common terms referring to factor markets. With your classmates, discuss factor markets and any areas about which you are unclear. Make suggestions for completing a correctly answered but incomplete AP-style question about the labor market. Take a 50-minute, teacher-graded test covering the main concepts introduced in this unit. The test includes both multiple-choice and free-response items. Lesson 4: Diagnostic Diagnostic Factor Markets Test your understanding of the key concepts covered in unit 6. Unit 7: Efficiency, Equity, and the Government The content in this unit maps to the following sections of the College Board's Advanced Placement topic outline: IV. Market Failure and the Role of Government A. Externalities 1. Marginal social benefit and marginal social cost 2. Positive externalities 3. Negative externalities 4. Remedies B. Public goods 1. Public versus private goods

21 2. Provision of public goods C. Public policy to promote competition 1. Antitrust policy 2. Regulation D. Income distribution 1. Equity 2. Sources of income inequality Topics introduced in this unit: Market Failures Externalities Public Goods Government Intervention Income Distribution Poverty Taxes Lesson 1: Market Failures Define externalities. Explain the government's role in correcting for negative externalities and increasing the incidence of positive externalities. Define public goods and explain how and why the government provides public goods. List and explain the sources of market failure. Analyze the effectiveness of government intervention in remedying market failures. Study Externalities and Public Goods Practice Investigate Externalities and Public Goods Practice Bring Together Externalities and Public Goods Examine positive and negative externalities, and the role of government intervention in the case of market failures. Define non-rival consumption and non-exclusionary consumption and use these definitions to determine whether a good is public or private. In this scored interactive exercise, investigate and answer questions about the role and definition of externalities and public goods. Answer in-depth questions on externalities and the role of government in providing public goods. Then send your work to your teacher for grading. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content presented in this lesson. Lesson 2: Distribution of Income Measure an economy's income distribution using a Lorenz curve. Explain the distribution of wealth in the economy. Define poverty and describe methods of addressing the issue of poverty. Explain tax incidence. Explain tax equity. Define and explain the differences between progressive, proportional, and regressive taxes.

22 Study Income Distribution and Taxes Practice Investigate Taxes and Income Distribution Practice Apply Concepts of Taxes and Income Distribution Discuss Your Opinion Counts: The Government and the Economy See how income is spread through the U.S. economy and learn about the different types of taxation. Explore Lorenz curves, examine poverty, the role of the government in income distribution, and the economics of taxation. Explore the problems inherent in using Lorenz curves as measures of income inequality and differentiate between proportional, progressive, and regressive tax policies. In this interactive scored exercise, practice working on a graph of the Lorenz curve, answer questions about the different types of taxes, and consider issues of redistribution and equity. Answer questions on taxes and income distribution and send your work to your teacher for scoring. Share and defend your opinions regarding the role of government in the economy or about the distribution of income. Answer questions to assess your understanding of the content introduced in this lesson. Lesson 3: Wrap-Up Define each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Explain the significance of each key term and concept listed in each lesson of this unit. Apply concepts you learned in this unit to specific questions. Review Efficiency, Equity, and the Role of Government Practice Efficiency, Equity, and the Role of Government Discuss Cram Session Discuss You Be the Teacher! Test Efficiency, Equity, and the Role of Government Review your studies of efficiency, equity, and the role of government as presented in this unit. Review terms referring to efficiency, equity, and the role of government. With your classmates, discuss efficiency, equity, the role of government, and any areas about which you are unclear. Make suggestions for completing a correctly answered but incomplete AP-style question about the labor market. Take a 50-minute, teacher-graded test about the main concepts introduced in this unit. It includes both multiple-choice and freeresponse items. Lesson 4: Diagnostic Diagnostic Efficiency, Equity, and the Role of Government Test your understanding of the key concepts covered in unit 7. Unit 8: Preparing for the AP Exam No new content is introduced in this unit.

23 Lesson 1: Comprehensive Microeconomics Review and AP Exam Practice Describe the format of the AP Microeconomics Exam. Develop a plan for how you're going to study between now and exam day. Define and explain the significance of each key term and concept introduced in this course. Apply the concepts you've learned to specific questions. Apply your knowledge to questions that may look new on the surface, but can be analyzed and answered using skills and knowledge you've gained in this course. Manage your time effectively as you prepare for, and take, the Final Exam and the AP Exam. Study AP Exam Preparation Review Microeconomics Quiz Practice Multiple-Choice Questions Discuss Any Questions? Final Exam Microeconomics Learn some tips and hints you can use while for preparing to take the AP Exam. Review your studies of microeconomics in preparation for the AP Exam. Answer multiple-choice questions covering material about microeconomics as a warm-up for taking the exam. Raise questions concerning material you studied in this course before taking the Final Exam. Take the 135-minute, teacher-graded Final Exam that includes multiple-choice and free-response questions and includes a reading period.

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