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ECN 143:Notes:Day 11
ECN 143:Notes:Day 11
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
02/17/2016

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How does long run supply appear on a supply curve?
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Horizontal
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What is the Elasticity of long run supply?
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Perfect Elasticity
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What are Bumper Crops in Agriculture?
Definition
An unexpectedly high yield of a particular crop.
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What kind of demand do farm products have?
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Inelastic
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What does an inelastic supply curve look like?
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A Vertical line
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What does an elastic supply curve look like?
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A Horizontal Line
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What does a unit elastic supply curve look like?
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Diagonal
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Perfectly inelastic supply cannot do what?
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React to changes in demand
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What happens to a farmer's revenue when they have bumper crops?
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It decreases
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All producers want to maximize what?
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Profit
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What are Excise Taxes?
Definition
Taxes on the consumption or sale of specific goods.
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Term
What are examples of price elasticities of demand that are very inelastic?
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Cigarettes, .25
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Gasoline, .6
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Liquors, .7
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Inelastic goods due to Excise Taxes must do what?
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Increase their prices significantly, while they lower their quantity only a minor amount, to accommodate for the Excise Tax.
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The more substitutes there are for a good, the more what is that good?
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Elastic
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Elastic goods if under Excise Taxes must do what?
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Increase their prices slightly, while decreasing quantity quite significantly , to accommodate for the Excise Tax.
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What is an Excise Tax Burden?
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The percentage of an excise tax borne by consumers or producers.
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Excise Tax's effect on price increase of goods and how it effects consumers.
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Excise Taxes' effect on cost of production, and how it decreases the quantity a supplier can produce.
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Excise Taxes do what to Supply and Price to a rather inelastic demand curve?
Definition
Increases price significantly by adding tax to prices, and decreases quantity supplied due to higher production costs.
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When demand is inelastic, who bears the greater excise tax burden?
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Consumers
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When demand is elastic, who bears the greater excise tax burden?
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The Producer
Term
Not all of the taxes can be added to what?
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The goods price
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Which is more volatile?
Gas prices or Car Prices?
Definition
Gas Prices
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Because there are very few substitutes for gasoline, what is it's elasticity type?
Definition
Inelastic
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The supply of gasoline depends on what?
Definition
The availability of crude oil
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What does the availability of crude oil dependent on?
Definition
Vulnerability to profound unpredictable supply interruptions
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Cars have many substitutes, which means they have what elasticity type?
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Elastic
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Supply of cars depends on what?
Definition
Resources that are rather reliably available
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What is utility in economics?
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Satisfaction
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How do consumers react to combinations of the same utility level?
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They're indifferent
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What is an indifference curve?
Definition
Curve that represents all combinations of two goods. equally preferred by a consumer.
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