2.3 Supply Flashcards
Supply
The quantity of goods that sellers can and will sell at a given price over a given time.
Why supply slopes up
Profit motive
High price neccessary to draw in marginal supplier
high price necessary to account for increasing marginal cost(individual)
Law of supply
A price increases, quantity supply decreases.
Market supply
Is the sum of all individual firms’ msupplies for a good.
Competitive supply of two. or more products
Referes to productions of one or the other by one firm
-the goods compete for the usr of the same resources
and producing more of one of means of a product
Joint supply
referes to production of goods that are derived from a single product
-. So that it is not possible to produce more of one without producing more of the other.
conditions of supply_Non-price determinants of supply
Cost of production
Technology
Prices of other goods-eg.Joint and competitive supply.
Legislation and regulation_taxes and subsidies.
Expectations of the future
Vertical supply curve
In some situation the quantity supplied cannot be changed.