Module 2 Managerial Economics
Module 2 Managerial Economics
Module 2
Obj ecti ves
simplifies complexity.
Microeconomics
Individual consumers
Individual firms
Industries
Cost minimization
Setting the profit- maximizing price for the goods the firm sells
Business Practice or Tactics
Implicit Costs
of
Owner-Supplied Resources
The returns forgone by not taking the
owners’ resources to market
Since the owners of firms must cover the costs of all resources used
by the firm, maximizing economic profit, rather than accounting
profit, is the objective of the firm’s owners.
Maximizing the Value of the Firm
Value of a firm
▪ the price for which the firm can be sold, which equals the present
value of future profits
Risk Premium
▪ an increase in the discount rate to compensate investors for
uncertainty about the future
Principle:
The value of a firm is the price for which it can be sold, and the
price is equal to the present value of the expected future profits
of the firm. The larger (smaller) the risk associated with future
profits, the higher (lower) the risk adjusted discount rate used to
compute the value of the firm, and the lower (higher) will be the
value of the firm.
Principle:
▪ the owner finds it either too costly or impossible in the case of moral hazard to
perfectly monitor the manage to block all management decisions that might be
harmful to the owner of the business
Principal-Agent Relationship
Hidden actions
▪ actions or decisions taken by managers that cannot be observed by
owners for any feasible amount of monitoring
Moral hazard
▪ a situation in which managers take hidden actions that harm the
owners of the firm but further the interests of the managers
Project #1
Make a research or documentation on the topic: