Chapter 4 Flashcards
What is a market?
Any place where buyer and sellers interact
What is a perfectly competitive market
-Identical good
-Many buys and sellers
-Buyers and sellers take the price given
Demand
Behavior of buyers(low demand they want less/high deamand they want more)
What is quantity demanded
How much someone is willing to buy at a certain price
What happens to buyer demand when price goes down?
Buyers usually want to buy more so buyer demand goes up
What is law of demand?
When prices goes down demand goes up/ When price goes up demand goes down
What is the formula for market demand
All buyers+amount willing to buy for x price = market demand
Quantity supplied
Amount a producer is willing and able to sell at a certain price
Law of supply
When prices goes up producers sell more quantity/ When prices goes down producers sell less quantity
Supply Schedule
A graph how much product a producer is willing to sell at a certain price
Supply Curve
A curve ona graph where each buyer is willing to sell at a certain price an the market demand for those prices
Increase in Supply
Supply shifts to the right
Decrease in Supply
Supply shifts to the left