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Managerial Economics

Tools of Analysis
Tools
of
Analysis
1. Economic Variables:
• Variable: anything that is subject to change

• Economic variables: supply, cost, prices, demand, labour, interest rate,


etc.

• Interrelatedness and interdependence


• D depends on P, and P depend on D
• Borrowing depends on r, and r depends on borrowing
• Profit depends on price, cost and sales
Limitation
• Large data/long series in real life
• Cannot be expressed simply in a table or
diagram
• No precise decisions
• Bi-variate:
one dependent variable, and one independent variable
• Multi-variate:
One dependent, several independent variables
2. Marginal Analysis
Example:
3. OPTIMISATION
Profit Maximisation:

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