Managerial Economics,

Asia Pacific Edition

Ivan Png
Pearson Education Asia

Table of Contents

 

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Chapter Title/Topics

Mini-Case

1.

Introduction to Managerial Economics

  • What is Managerial Economics?
  • Preliminaries
  • Organizational Boundaries
  • Markets
  • Global Principles
  • Summary

Samsung Electronics

2.

Demand

  • Introduction
  • Individual Demand
  • Demand and Income
  • Other Factors in Demand
  • Market Demand
  • Buyer Surplus
  • Business Demand
  • Summary
  • Math Supplement

China Mobile

3.

Elasticity

  • Introduction
  • Own-Price Elasticity
  • Forecasting Quantity Demanded and Expenditure
  • Other Elasticities
  • Adjustment Time
  • Estimating Elasticities
  • Summary
  • Math Supplement

The Asian Wall street Journal

4.

Supply

  • Introduction
  • Short-Run Costs
  • Short-Run Individual Supply
  • Long-Run Individual Supply
  • Market Supply
  • Seller Surplus
  • Labor Supply
  • Elasticitiy of Supply
  • Summary
  • Math Supplement

Nanya and Infineon

5.

Competitive Markets

  • Introduction
  • Perfect Competition
  • Market Equilibrium
  • Supply Shift
  • Demand Shift
  • Calculating Equilibrium Changes
  • Adjustment Time
  • Summary
  • Math Supplement

World Tanker Services Market

6.

Economic Efficiency

  • Introduction
  • Conditions for Economic Efficiency
  • Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
  • Decentralized Management
  • Intermediation
  • Price Ceilings
  • Price Floors
  • Summary

China's food crisis

7.

Costs

  • Introduction
  • Economies of Scale
  • Economies of Scope
  • Opportunity Cost
  • Transfer Pricing
  • Sunk Costs
  • Statistical Methods
  • Summary

Samsung Electronics and LG.Philips LCD

8.

Market Power

  • Introduction
  • Sources of Market Power
  • Monopoly Pricing
  • Demand and Cost Changes
  • Advertising
  • Market Structure
  • Restraining Competition
  • Monopsony
  • Summary
  • Math Supplement

Eli Lilly: Prozac

9.

Pricing Policy

  • Introduction
  • Uniform Pricing
  • Complete Price Discrimination
  • Direct Segment Discrimination
  • Location
  • Indirect Segment Discrimination
  • Bundling
  • Selecting the Pricing Policy
  • Summary
  • Math Supplement

Emirates Airlines

10.

Strategic Thinking

  • Introduction
  • Nash Equilibrium
  • Randomized Strategies
  • Competition or Coordination
  • Sequencing
  • Strategic Moves
  • Conditional Strategic Moves
  • Repetition
  • Summary

Coke Vs. Pepsi

11.

Externalities

  • Introduction
  • Benchmark
  • Resolving Externalities
  • Network Effects and Externalities
  • Public Goods
  • Excludability
  • Summary
  • Math Supplement

AOL

12.

Asymmetric Information

  • Introduction
  • Imperfect Information
  • Adverse Selection
  • Appraisal
  • Screening
  • Auctions
  • Signaling
  • Contingent Payments
  • Math Supplement

NTUC Income

13.

Incentives and Organizations

  • Introduction
  • Moral Hazard
  • Incentives
  • Risk
  • Multiple Responsibilities
  • Holdup
  • Ownership
  • Organizational Architecture
  • Summary

Airbus

14.

Regulation

  • Introduction
  • Natural Monopoly
  • Potential Competitive Market
  • Asymmetric Information
  • Externalities
  • Public Goods
  • Summary
  • Math Supplement

North Delhi Power