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MacroEconomics Ch 3 Brue
Parrot, MCconell 17th edition
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
02/16/2009

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Demand
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The various amounts of Product that consumers are willing and able to purchase
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Law Of Demand
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As price falls the quantity demand rises, as price rises the quantity demand falls
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Diminishing Marginal Utility
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successive units of a particular produce yield less and less marginal utility (the more you have of a particular product the less it satisfies you)
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Income Effect
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A LOWER price increases purchasing power of a buyers money income, allowing the buyer to purchase more
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The Substitution Effect
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If the cost goes down and has a better deal you might purchase that item over the usual item "substituting" the better deal item
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Determinants of Demand, or Demand Shifters
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Demand other than price and Quantity such as preferences, consumers income,consumer expectations
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Some changes in demand
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Number of Buyers, Income, R\Prices of related Goods, complements,unrelated goods, consumer expectation
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Superior goods or normal Goods
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Products that demand varies with money income
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substitute Good
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a good that can be used in the place of another good. McDonalds instead of ruby Tuesdays would be a substitute
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Complementary good
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Good that is used together with another good, snowboard and lift ticket, computer and software
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unrelated Goods
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surplus
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when quantity supply exceeds quantity demand, surpluses drive prices down
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3 rationales for the law of demand
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People ordinarily do buy more of a product at a low price
Each buyer of a product will derive less satisfaction from each successive unit of product consumed (diminishing marginal utility)
The income effect/ substitution effect more income = buying more product, less income = buying substitute product
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The substitution effect
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suggest that lower price buyers have the incentive to substitute what it now a less expensive product for a similar product that was more expensive
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Determinants of demand
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factors that affect purchases
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5 determinants of demand
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consumers taste, the number of buyers in market, consumers income, the prices of related goods, consumer expectations
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consumer taste
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a favorable change in consumer preferences for a product, a change that makes a product more desirable, means that more of it will be demanded at each price
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how does the number of buyers affect the demand
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an increase in the number of buyers in a market is likely to increase product demand
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how does income affect demand
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rise in income increase in demand
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2 parts of price related goods and effects
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Subsitute good complementary good
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supply
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amounts of a product that producers are willing and able to make available for sale at each of a series of possible prices during a specific period
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Law of supply
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as price rises the quantity supplied rises as price falls the supply falls
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Determinants of supply
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resources, technology, taxes and subsidies, prices of other goods, producer expectations, number of sellers in the market
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Equilibrium price and quality
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is the price where the intentions of buyers and sellers match
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shortage
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quantity demanded would exceed quantity supplied
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Rationing Function of prices
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the ability of the competitive forces of supply and demand to establish a price at which selling and buying decisions are consistent is called the rationing function of prices
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