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Microeconomics
Chapter 3
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
02/10/2010

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Term
Changes in supply and demand
Definition
  • Single changes
  • Complex changes
  • Agricultural products
Term
Important to know concerning supply and demand
Definition
  • Equilibrium price and quantity
  • Changes in demand
  • Changes in quantity demanded
  • Changes in supply
  • Changes in quantity supplied
Term
Determinants of supply
Definition
  • Resource prices
  • Technology
  • Taxes & Subsidies
  • Price of other goods
  • Price expectations
  • Number of sellers
Term
Law of supply
Definition
  1. As prices rise, quantity supplied rises
  2. As prices fall, quantity supplied falls
Term
Supply
Definition
Always relates to a correlation going up, or rising.
Term
Determinants of demand
Definition
  • Tastes and preferences
  • Number of buyers
  • Incomes
  • Prices of related goods
  • Expectations
Term
Substitution effect
Definition
Inverse relation between products on price, demand and quantity
Term
Income effect
Definition
Lower prices allow you to buy more
Term
Diminishing Marginal Utility (DMU)
Definition
The more you consume of something overtime, the less satisfaction you recieve.
Term
Law of demand
Definition
  1. As price falls, quantity demand rises
  2. As price rises, quantity demand falls
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