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Year 1 A LEVEL SPECIFICATION (H460/01) RAG Review RAG RAG
Date (post (Y13)
review)
Autumn 1. Introduction to Microeconomics
Term
Week 1 1.1 The economic • Economic goods and free goods
problem • The economic problem: scarcity, choice, needs, and wants
2 • Normative and positive statements
• The role of economic agents: government, firms, and
households
• The factors of production: land, labour, capital, and
enterprise
• The reward of the factors of production: rent, wages, interest
and profit
3 1.2 The allocation • Incentives
of resources • Market, planned and mixed economic systems
• Economic efficiency: productive and allocative efficiency
1.3 Opportunity
cost • Opportunity cost and trade-off
• Production possibility curve (PPC)
2. The Role of Markets
4 2.1 Specialisation • Specialisation and the division of labour
and Trade • Barter systems
• Money as a medium of exchange
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5 2.2 Demand • The relationship between price and quantity demanded
• Individual and market demand
• Joint, competitive and composite demand
• Movements along the demand curve (extension/contraction)
• Shifts of the demand curve (increase/decrease)
• The relationship between price and quantity supplied
2.3 Supply • Individual and market supply
• Joint and competitive supply
• Movements along the supply curve (extension/contraction)
• Shifts of the supply curve (increase/decrease)
6 2.4 Consumer and • Consumer surplus and producer surplus
producer • The effects of changes in price on consumer surplus
surplus • The effects of changes in price on producer surplus
2.5 The interaction • Ceteris paribus
of markets • The interaction of demand and supply
• Market equilibrium and disequilibrium
7 Revision/consolidation
Autumn half term
8-9 2.6 Elasticity • Price elasticity of demand (PED)
• Income elasticity of demand (YED)
• Cross elasticity of demand (XED)
• Price elasticity of supply (PES)
10 2.7 The concept of • Margin
the margin • Total and marginal utility, diminishing marginal utility and the
demand curve
11 2.8 Market failure • Market failure
and externalities • Marginal social cost, marginal external cost, marginal private
cost, marginal social benefit, marginal external benefit and
marginal private benefit
• Positive and negative externalities (external benefits and
external costs); consumption and production: with diagrams
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12 2.9 Information • Information failure
failure • Asymmetric information and moral hazard
• Merit and demerit goods
2.10 Public goods • Public goods, private goods and quasi-public goods
• The characteristics of a public good; non-excludability, non-
diminishability/non-rivalry, non-rejectability and zero marginal
cost
• The free rider problem
13 2.11 Government • Government intervention in markets: taxation, subsidies,
intervention government expenditure, price controls, public/private
partnerships, legislation, regulation, tradable pollution
permits, information provision, competition policy
• Government failure
14 Revision/consolidation
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Year 1 A LEVEL SPECIFICATION (H460/02) RAG Review RAG RAG
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review)
Spring Macroeconomics
Term
Week 1 Mock exams for Component 1 Microeconomics
1. Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
2 1.1 Circular flow of • The circular flow of income, with injections and leakages
income • The methods of measuring national income, output and expenditure
• Aggregate demand and its components
1.2 Aggregate
demand
3 1.3 Aggregate • Aggregate supply
supply
1.4 The interaction • The assumptions underlying the aggregate demand and aggregate
of aggregate supply models
demand and • Equilibrium in the macroeconomy
supply
4 1.5 The Multiplier • Factors which determine the size of the national income multiplier
and the accelerator
2. Economic policy objectives
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5 2.1 Economic •Economic growth
growth • The policy objective of economic growth
• The different stages of the economic cycle
• Real and nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP); changes in GDP
over time
6 2.2 Development • The structure of an economy in terms of primary, secondary and
tertiary sectors
• The policy objective of sustainable development
•The usefulness of macroeconomic measures such as GDP, the Human
Development Index (HDI) and other alternative social and cultural
indicators
7 2.3 Employment • Employment and unemployment
• The policy objective of full employment
• The labour force survey and claimant count measures of
unemployment
Revision/consolidation
Spring half term
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8-9 2.4 Inflation • Inflation, deflation, disinflation and hyperinflation
• The policy objective of low and stable inflation
• Real and nominal values
• Measuring inflation using the Consumer Prices Index and
Retail Prices Index
2.5 Balance of payments • Balance of payments
• The components of the current account: trade in goods, trade
in services, primary and secondary income
• The policy objective of a sustainable balance of payments
position
• Imbalances on the balance of payments
2.6 Trends in macroeconomic
indicators • Key trends in UK macroeconomic performance in the last 20
years
10 2.7 Income distribution and • Income and wealth; distribution and inequality
welfare • The policy objective of a more even distribution of income
• Absolute and relative poverty
• Inequality data; Gini coefficients and relevant quartiles
11 2.8 The Phillips curve • Natural rate of unemployment; non-accelerating inflation rate
of unemployment (NAIRU)
Revision
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Summer 3. Implementing policy
Term
Week 1 3.1 Fiscal policy • Government budget
• Direct, indirect, progressive, proportional and regressive taxation
• Current and capital government expenditure
• Budget surplus, deficit and balanced budget
• Cyclical and structural budget position
• National and government debt
• Discretionary fiscal policy and automatic stabilisers
• Crowding out
• The Laffer curve
2 3.2 Monetary • Changes in interest rates
policy • Changes in money supply
• Inflation rate targets
• Quantitative easing
• Influence of exchange rates
3 3.3 Supply side • Privatisation, deregulation and subsidies
policy • Competition policy
• Investment in infrastructure, education, training, research and development
• Reforms of the tax and benefit system
• Improved labour market flexibility
• Immigration control
4 3.4 Policy • Conflicts and trade-offs between policy objectives
Conflicts
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Autumn Microeconomics
Term 3. Business objectives
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Week 1 3.1 Business • Maximisation objectives: profit, sales revenue, sales volume, growth and
objectives utility
• Non-maximising objectives: profit satisficing, social welfare, corporate social
responsibility (CSR)
• The principal-agent problem
2-3 3.2 Costs and • Fixed, variable, total, average, marginal costs (with calculations)
economies of • Short run and long run in termsof fixed and variable factors • (With the aid
scale of diagrams) The law of diminishing returns
• Internal and external economies of scale
• Diseconomies of scale
• Minimum efficient scale
• Total, average and marginal revenue (with calculations)
3.3 Revenue and • Profit/loss (with calculations)
profit • Accounting, normal and supernormal profit
4. Market
Structures
4 4.1 Perfect • The characteristics of perfect competition
competition (Refer to specification for diagrams needed)
5 4.2 Monopoly • The characteristics of monopoly
• Dynamic efficiency
• X-inefficiency
(Refer to specification for diagrams needed)
6 4.3 Monopolistic • The characteristics of monopolistic competition
competition (Refer to specification for diagrams needed)
4.4 Oligopoly • The characteristics of oligopoly
• Non-price competition
• Interdependence: kinked demand curve
• Types of collusion
• Product differentiation
7 4.5 Contestable • The characteristics of a contestable market
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markets • Productive and allocative efficiency in a contestable market
Consolidation
Autumn half term
5. The Labour market
8 5.1 Demand for • Derived demand for labour
labour • Factors affecting the demand for labour in an industry
• Factors affecting wage elasticity of demand for labour
• Productivity and unit labour costs
9 5.2 Supply of • Factors affecting the supply of labour to an industry
labour • Factors affecting the wage elasticity of the supply of labour
• Short run and long run supply of labour
10-11 5.3 The • Wage differentials
interaction of • Monopsony
labour markets • Trade union
• Bilateral monopoly
12-13 Revision/consolidation
14 Internal assessments
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Spring Macroeconomics
Term 4.The global context
Week 1 4.1 International trade • International trade
• Patterns of international trade over time
2 4.2 Exchange rates • Exchange rates
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3-4 4.3 Globalisation • Globalisation
• International competitiveness
• Absolute and comparative advantage
• Terms of trade
• Marshall-Lerner condition and J-curve
5 4.4 Trade policies and • Protectionism
negotiations • Economic integration through free trade areas, customs unions,
monetary union, economic union
6 Revision/consolidation
Spring Half term
5. The financial sector
7 5.1 Money and • Functions and characteristics of money
interest rates • The creation and supply of money
• Narrow and broad money in terms of liquidity
• The relationship between the money supply and the price level; Fisher equation
of exchange
• The determination of interest rates (diagram needed)
8 5.2 The financial • The role of the financial sector
sector • The role of savings and investment in promoting economic development
• The Harrod-Domar model
• Microfinance
9- 5.3 Financial • Purpose and methods of financial regulation
10 regulation • The role and functions of a central bank
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