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How Markets Work Flashcards

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What things must we assume about the Consumer and Producer?

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  • Consumers aim to maximize utility - Firms aim to maximize profits
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Factors that cause a shift in the Demand Curve??

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  • Changes in price of a substitute good - Changing Price of a complement - Changes in incomes of customers - Effects of advertising and marketing
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Factors that cause a movement ALONG the demand curve?

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  • A change in price causes a change in Quantity Demanded
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What are the Conditions of Demand?

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  • Income - Quality - Advertising - Substitutes - Complements - Weather - Expectations
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What is the concept of Diminishing Marginal Utility?

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  • It states that the marginal utility of a good or service declines as its available supply increases.
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How does the concept of Diminishing Marginal Utility effect the demand curve?

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  • As people consume more they want less of the product so high supply leads to lower demand.
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What is Price Elasticity of Demand?

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  • Measures the responsiveness of demand after a change in a product’s own price.
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What is Income Elasticity of Demand?

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  • Measures the relationship between a change in quantity demanded for good X and a change in real income.
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What is Cross Elasticity of Demand? (XED)??

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  • Measures the responsiveness of demand for good X following a change in the price of a related good Y.
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What is the Price Elasticity of Demand formula?

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What is the Income Elasticity of Demand Formula?

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What is the Cross Elasticity of Demand Formula?

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What is Unitary Demand?

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  • = 1
  • A change in Price causes and equal change in Quantity Demanded
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What is Perfectly Elastic Demand?

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  • where the coefficient is infinite
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What is Relative Elastic Demand?

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  • When the percentage change in quantity demanded is greater than the percentage change in price
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What is Relative INELASTIC demand?

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  • More change in the price of the goods but less change in demand for the goods.
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What is Perfectly INELASTIC Demand?

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  • If Ped = 0 demand is perfectly inelastic
  • demand does not change at all when the price changes

– the demand curve will be vertical.

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What kind of good has a negative income elasticity of demand?

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Luxury good

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What will an increase in income lead to?

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  • An increase in income will lead to a fall in the demand and may lead to changes to more luxurious substitutes.
20
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What is a positive income elasticity of demand associated with?

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  • Normal Goods

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