This 9 minute video will expand on oligopolies and how they can coordinate to create collusion and cartel (closer to a monopoly). In doing so, the students will also be introduced to OPEC cartel. This video will aid in mastery in standard EPF. 2 (h) and (i)
Learn how to calculate interest when interest is compounded continually. We compare the effects of compounding more than annually, building up to interest compounding continually. Created by Sal Khan.
Forward Contract Introduction. Created by Sal Khan.
Economists traditionally divide the factors of production into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. Land refers to natural resources, labor refers to work effort, and capital is anything made that is used to make something else. The last resource, entrepreneurship, refers to the ability to put the other three resources together to create value. In this video, we define each of the four factors of production and provide examples of each.
Understanding the weak points of Fractional Reserve Banking. Created by Sal Khan.
Walk through the solution to a free response question (FRQ) like the ones you may see on an AP Microeconomics exam. Topics include why price equals marginal revenue (P=MR) for a perfectly competitive firm, how to draw side-by-side market and firm graphs, and how to find several points of interest in the firm graph.
Overview of full reserve banking in comparison to fractional reserve banking. Created by Sal Khan.
What does money actually do? Economists usually subdivide its functions into three categories: A medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of value. Created by Grant Sanderson.
Normal and Inverted Futures Curves. Created by Sal Khan.
Futures Curves II. Created by Sal Khan.
What is the Futures Fair Value and how to traders use it as an indicator for stock price direction at market opening. Created by Sal Khan.
Futures Introduction. Created by Sal Khan.
Understanding the mechanics of margin for futures. Initial and maintenance margin. Created by Sal Khan.
The GDP deflator is a way of adjusting nominal output to get the real value of output. In this video, get an intuitive explanation of the GDP deflator and learn how to calculate the GDP deflator. Created by Sal Khan.
We deepen our understanding of a Nash Equilibrium by exploring Pareto optimality and more on Nash Equilibrium. Created by Sal Khan.
Overview of the Geithner Plan and the problem it is supposed to solve. Created by Sal Khan.
More on the Geithner Plan. The problem of banks buying the assets from themselves. Created by Sal Khan.
More exotic ways that a bank could buy transfer exposure to the taxpayer. Created by Sal Khan.
Constructing an investment where an investor gets the same upside while the program limits the downside. Created by Sal Khan.
Quantifying the value of the put option. Created by Sal Khan.