AQA A2 Economics Unit 3 (ECON3) 20th June 2016 OFFICIAL THREAD

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Reply 360

BirdIsWord

Original post by Alextaylor6

I did context 1 and essay 3, the questions were ****ing weird man

ay what were your answers for context 1? so stressed atm. THis summer wont be fun..

Reply 361

mk_98

Original post by Sebster98

You might be ****ed ngl. Im not joking no matter how good your answer was you'll probably hit a ceiling of around 16-18 marks if that, as you literally left out half of your answer. Unlucky bro.

It was a pretty open question tho. I'd doubt they'd penalise you that much, if you didn't mention it.

Reply 362

Alextaylor6

Original post by BirdIsWord

ay what were your answers for context 1? so stressed atm. THis summer wont be fun..

Yeah, I need at least a B :frown:

For the first, I got 1.87% then said USA was the largest consumer of oil

I can't even remember the other two questions lmao, but i just wrote a lot of ******** most of it coming from AS

Reply 363

Superbob123

What was the question for the 25 marker on essay 2 again please?

Reply 364

parneet-gill

Original post by EconMacro

I did!

Context 2
Question 4
- 50%

Question 5
- Equality: everyone treated the same
- Equity: normative theory of fairness (vertical and horizontal)
- MRP Theory: low price of final product so low wage rate
- Elastic demand from low barriers to entry (lack of required training)

Question 6
- Advantages of Living Wage: raises wage rate
- Disadvantages of Living Wage: real wage unemployment
- Alternatives: improve geographic and occupational mobility and trade unions
- Conclusion: living wage best option in short run however mobility of labour in long run because of its potential to increase economic growth

Essay Question 1
Question 7- Outlined perfect competition and its conditions - Allocative efficiency because AR=MR curves are perfectly inelastic and price is set by market- Productive efficiency because forced to minimise costs in order to achieve normal profitQuestion 8Negatives of monopolies- Not statically efficient (higher prices and deadweight loss) Positive of monopolies- Economies of scale- Dynamic EfficiencyEvaluation- Reference to contestability - Overall positives outweigh negatives especially when monitored by CMA

For the 25 marker on context 2 could you talk about the trickle down effect and how economics are not able to judge the value of poverty and what is a living wage. I said reduce taxation to allow the trickle down effect and hopefully regulate supply side reforms and capital investment

Reply 365

Louise123456789

Original post by castielle

what did people write for context 2 and essay 3??

Context 2 essay
- Increased wage rates so consumers have more income, reducing the risk of poverty (relative and absolute)
- Incentivises more people to work so fewer people on welfare benefits (improves budget deficit)
- however, the backwards bending supply curve shows that too high wages will reduce employment and used extract A to show that the highest wage doesn't necessarily result in the highest level of employment, so living wage might be too high
- alternative is reducing tax and giving low paid workers tax credits (tax credits mentioned in extract)
- but lowering tax might lead to fiscal drag
- overall, both living wage and tax credits should be used

Essay 3
- merit goods are underprovided and underconsumed
- public goods not provided at all
- subsidising merit goods increased consumption and results in a welfare gain, making up for the deadweight loss
- firms may become dependent and unproductive - I mentioned that it will be out competed due to perfect competition just so that I could put in A2 content
- not a priority for the government
- public goods should be subsidied
- risk of government failure
- government might not know the social optimal level / there is no imperfect info
- overall, leave merit goods to the free market because there is some allocation of resource but subsidise public goods

How many marks roughly for each question?

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Reply 366

Browns10

Original post by cutelady

How did you calculate this?

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I got that i did 36/1925 *100

Reply 367

jwinters

When talking about market forces was i right to talk about the effects of price, signal rationing and incentive?

Reply 368

samm98

I think that's the best exam I've ever done. Definitely an A maybe even an A* 😊. How did everyone else find it?

Reply 369

BirdIsWord

Original post by jwinters

When talking about market forces was i right to talk about the effects of price, signal rationing and incentive?

for which essay?

Reply 370

ta97

For context to, did anyone make a reference to the poverty trap if wages increase - however I didn't mention the backward bending supply curve (when maybe I should've) because I doubt you could ever generate enough income to experience a substation effect from raising the living wage by a small proportion.

Reply 371

BirdIsWord

Original post by samm98

I think that's the best exam I've ever done. Definitely an A maybe even an A* 😊. How did everyone else find it?

Glad you found it good bro. I found it impossible.. What essays did you do/what did you talk about?

Reply 372

jwinters

Original post by BirdIsWord

for which essay?

The one about the importance of market forces relative to government intervention

Reply 373

jakelong1001

Original post by EconMacro

Isn't Allocative efficiency AC=MR ?

Reply 374

cammck98

Original post by EconMacro

Thats pretty much what I said! Although for wage determination I talked about price elasticity of demand and supply for labour and how that brings about low wages for unskilled workers.

Reply 375

tuddin96

who did the 15 marker on how perfect competition causes efficient allocation of resources. so it was basially asking how perf comp leads to allocative efficiency. I first talked about perf comp and market strucutre of it, then define allocative effciency. then drew a diagram showing supernormal profits by perf comp in the short run but supply of firms increase which erodes it until ar=mc. so allocatively effcient in the long run since ar curve comes down. Who else wrote this. please reply.

Reply 376

ta97

For those of you who did essay two on objectives, what examples of firms did u use? I did charities who don't profit max and Ryanair/easyjet who cost min, helping them profit max to a certain degree. Outta interest, do pharmaceuticals profit max or do they prioritise other objectives?

Reply 377

castielle

Original post by Louise123456789

i think you have done rly, i cant believe i forgot to talk about government failure on both essays :frown:

((( but you shouldnt have anything to worry about, you've done well!

Reply 378

BirdIsWord

Original post by tuddin96

Sounds good, you got a lot of theory in. I didnt do that essay though. What was the title?

Reply 379

tuddin96

Original post by Sebster98

You might be ****ed ngl. Im not joking no matter how good your answer was you'll probably hit a ceiling of around 16-18 marks if that, as you literally left out half of your answer. Unlucky bro.

bro what you talking about, the q said concentrated market and monopoly. a monopoly can be a concentrated markets, so if you focus on monopoly, pretty sure your fine. it doesnt explicitly reference oligpolies. talking about oligopolies can be wrong tbh because the question specifically states monopoly not oligopoly. you interpretation of the word 'concentrated market' can easily be one firm having majority of the control.