AQA A Level Economics Syllabus
European Union For AQA Unit 4
- Origins of the EU
- Economic Integration
- Single Market
- What it involves
- Efficiency of the Single Market
- Common Agricultural Policy
- Reform of the CAP
- Expansion of the EU
- Monetary Union
- What it involves
- How it affects Monetary Policy
- Impact of European wide inflation targeting and interest policy
- Arguments for Against
- Regional Policy
- Unemployment as a Pan European problem
- EU policy’s on Transport, environment and Competition Policy
- Globalisation and the EU
Business Economics Unit 5
- The Theory of The Firm
- Costs of Firms
- Fixed and Variable
- Marginal, Average and Totals
- Law of Diminishing Returns
- Long Run Costs
- Economies and Diseconomies of Scale
- Effect of Technological change on costs and Supply
- Production Decisions
- The Objectives of Firms incl. Alternative aims
- Competitive Markets
- Competitive Markets in the real world and benefits of
- Monopoly
- Oligopoly
- Contestable Markets
- The Labour Market
- Demand for Labour MRP
- Supply
- Wage Determination in Competitive markets
- T.Unions and Monopsonistic
- Discrimination in the Labour Market
- Inequality
- Market Failure and Government Failure
- Competition Policy
- Privatisation, De regulation and OF regulation
- Equity
- Poverty and Alleviation of Poverty
- Cost Benefit Analysis
The National Economy - Unit 6
- Economic Growth
- GDP and measuring living standards
- Causes of Economic Growth
- Causes of Recessions
- Costs and Benefits of Economic Growth
- Inflation
- Unemployment
Managing The Economy
- Monetary Policy
- Fiscal Policy
- Taxes and Public Spending
- Exchange Rate
- Exchange Rate as a tool of Economic Policy
- Conflict of Policy Objectives
International Economy
- Pattern of Trade /globalisation
- Comparative Adv. /benefits of trade
- Protectionsim
- Balance of Payments
- Exchange Rates
