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What are the determinants of demand? |
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Definition
- Income- can shift depending on if it is a normal good or inferior good
- Preferences
- Price of Related Goods- consider substitutes and complements
- Number of Buyers
- Expectations of Future Price
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What is the
difference between change in demand and change in quantity demanded? |
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Definition
- Change in demand-curve shifts
- change in quantity demanded- movement in one point to another on the same curve
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- Price in Relevant Resources
- Technology
- Number of sellers
- expectation of future price
- taxes and subsidies
- government restrictions
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Difference between change in supply and change in quantity supplied |
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Definition
- Change in supply- curve shifts
- Change in quantity supplied- point on curve shifts
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What is a price ceiling and what are its effects? |
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Definition
- A price ceiling is a government mandated maximum price
- Its effects can be shortages, fewer exchanges, nonprice rationing, buying/selling at prohibited prices, and tie-in sales
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What is a price floor and its effects? |
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Definition
- A price floor is a government mandated minimum price
- Its effects can be surpluses and/or fewer exchanges
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What is the price elasticity of demand? |
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Definition
It is a measurement of how much quantity demanded depends on price
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What do these mean:
- Ed>1
- Ed<1
- Ed=1
- Ed=∞
- Ed=0
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Definition
The item is:
- elastic
- inelastic
- unit elastic
- perfectly elastic
- perfectly inelastic
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Determinants of Elasticity of Demand
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Definition
- Number of Substitutes
- Percentage of consumer's budget spent on good
- time
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What is the income elasticity of demand? |
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Definition
It is the change in quantity demanded based on change of income.
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Term
What does this mean for an item?
- Ey>0
- Ey<0
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Definition
- The item is is a normal good (demand increases as income inreases)
- The item is an inferior good(demand decreases as income increases)
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What is the price elasticity of supply? |
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Definition
Its the change in quantity supplied due to change in price.
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Same rules as for demand except for supply |
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What is the cross elasticity of demand? |
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Definition
Change in quantity demanded of one good in response to change in price of another good
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What does it mean if
- EA/B>0
- EA/B<0
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Definition
1. The goods are substitutes
2. The goods are complements |
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