MicroMacroEconomics?

md99

which is your precious....?

md99

for me, it's Micro, if I have my way I will avoid Macro completely in long Qs....save maybe for the beloved National Income/Multiplier question, or Banking maybe, that's usually a delight!

but nothing beats the old reliables, Market Structures, Demand/Supply, Costs, Elasticity and (slightly harder but a beautiful 4th Question) Factors of Production.

Please excuse my enthusiasm but I LOVE this subject!

JC 2K3

Anarchy ftw.

Enemy Of Fate

Its gotta be Macro, thankfully though I rock at both!

GretchenWieners

Micro all the way, Perfect Competition, Supply/Demand, Elasticity, FOPs. Bound to get at leat 3 of them in long qs! I'll study Money and Banking and International Trade and National Income too. Hopefully that'll cover me.

boger

perfect competition , fop , elasticity, demand and supply are micro not macro.

for me micro is the best its the easiest,

md99 i also love this subject

Marshy

Theres too much to learn in macro. Micro is much more straightforward to revise. And also they seem more likely to ask tricky questions in the macro, questions you actually need to think about.

I'd love if a few nice easy micro topics to come up. Cant see it happening though.

Rineanna

md99 wrote:

which is your precious....?

I found Macro more interesting butMicro easier to study. I hope ye get a more balanced paper then I did in the LC last year. Got 6 macro and 2 micro!!

I'm doing them both in Uni still, and Macro is alot more interesting then Micro again this time around.

md99

Rineanna wrote:

I found Macro more interesting butMicro easier to study. I hope ye get a more balanced paper then I did in the LC last year. Got 6 macro and 2 micro!!

I'm doing them both in Uni still, and Macro is alot more interesting then Micro again this time around.

What are you talking about? It's an even divide, it's 50:50.

Marshy

md99 wrote:

What are you talking about? It's an even divide, it's 50:50.

Last year it was 5 macro and 3 micro AFAIK. They're not obliged to have it 4 and 4.

fuinneamh

macro is more enjoyable as nearly always the part (C) in a question require you to use some form of economic reasoning which i love. Also the best way to study this question was to read the economics column on the business supplement of the irish times. Analysis of current problems and possibly what will come up.

Rineanna

md99 wrote:

What are you talking about? It's an even divide, it's 50:50.

No, No. It's not. I did it, and I'm 100% sure Macro made up the majority of questions. As the next poster said, they're not obliged to go 50:50 with the questions. Apparently, the majority of students were answering all the Micro questions when it was a 50:50 divide between the two, so they increased the weight of Macro in the exam so that you had to at least answer one Macro question. That's what I'm talking about.

Limerick Dude

oooh if 4 micro questions came up it would be great

md99

Rineanna wrote:

No, No. It's not. I did it, and I'm 100% sure Macro made up the majority of questions. As the next poster said, they're not obliged to go 50:50 with the questions. Apparently, the majority of students were answering all the Micro questions when it was a 50:50 divide between the two, so they increased the weight of Macro in the exam so that you had to at least answer one Macro question. That's what I'm talking about.

Marshy is right, it was 5:3 in your exam... not 6:2. Can't believe I never realised this.... I love micro. Maybe we'll even get 4 Micro, since in the last 2 years it's been 5:3?

Rineanna

md99 wrote:

Marshy is right, it was 5:3 in your exam... not 6:2. Can't believe I never realised this.... I love micro. Maybe we'll even get 4 Micro, since in the last 2 years it's been 5:3?

Thanks for the correction, 5:3 it was so. I knew Macro dominated the paper somewhat.

There's no reason why you won't get a 4:4 paper (and hopefully for your sake it is if you like Micro that much) but I'd be wary of having to answer at least one Macro question. What are the predictions like this year for the paper in terms of market structures to come up, etc? I think Oligopoly came up in my paper last year , and that Monopoly is due?