MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
Course Syllabus
1.0 INTRODUCTION
- What is managerial
economics?
- Study managerial decisions
as they relate to profit maximisation
- Fundamental Principles of
effective management
2.0 THEORY OF INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR
- Consumer Behaviour
- Indifference Curve
Analysis
- Consumer Preference Ordering
- Constraints
- The Budget Constraints
- Changes in income
- Changes in prices
- Consumer Equilibrium
- Indifference Curve
Analysis and Demand Curves
3.0 DEMAND AND SUPPLY
- The Market Demand Curve
- The Demand Function
- Determinants of Demand
- Consumer Surplus
- The Market Supply Curve
- The Supply Function
- Producer Surplus
- Market Equilibrium
4.0 ELASTICITY
- The Elasticity Concept
- Own Price Elasticity
- Elasticity and Total
Revenue
- Cross Price Elasticity
- Income Elasticity
- Demand Functions
- Linear
- Log-Linear
5.0 PRODUCTION AND COST
- Production Analysis
- Total Product, Marginal
Product, Average Product
- Isoquants
- Isocosts
- Cost Minimization
- Cost Analysis
- Total cost, Variable Cost,
Fixed costs
- Cubic Cost Function
- Cost Relations
6.0 MARKET STRUCTURE
- Perfect Competition
- Characteristics and profit
outlook
- Effect of new entrants
- Monopolies
- Sources of monopoly power
- Maximizing monopoly
profits
- Pros and cons
- Monopolistic Competition
- Profit Maximisation
- Long run equilibrium
- Basic Oligopoly Models
- Conditions for Oligopoly
- Role of strategic interdependence
- Profit Maximization in the
Three Oligopoly Settings
- Cournot Model
- Stackelberg Model
- Bertrand Model
7.0 REGRESSION ANALYSIS
- Economic Relationships
(theory)
- Deterministic Relations
- Statistical Relations and
Regression Analysis
- Forecasting
- Forecasting Time Horizons
- Steps in Forecasting
- Forecasting Approaches
- Qualitative
- Delphi Method
- Consumer Market Survey
- Quantitative
- Time series Models
- Naïve approach
- Moving averages
- OLS