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Introduction to Applied Economics Flashcards

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The 3 E’s of Economics

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Efficiency, effectiveness, equity

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Efficiency

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It is the productivity and proper allocation of economic resources and the relationship between scarce factor input and output of goods and services.

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Effectiveness

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It is the attainment of goals and objectives.

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Equity

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It refers to justice and fairness.

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Social Science

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Is the study or discipline that aims to explain human behavior.

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Why is economics a social science?

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Economics is a social science because it studies human behavior and how people make decisions to satisfy their unlimited wants by allocating limited resources.

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Two branches of economics.

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Macroeconomics and Microeconomics

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Macroeconomics

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It is the study of the economic behavior of the economy as a whole, especially the national economy. Also known as the analysis of employment and income.

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Topics discussed in macroeconomics

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Gross national product, employment level, national income, gross domestic product, general price level, and economic growth and development.

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Microeconomics

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It is the study of economic behavior in particular markets, such as market for computers or unskilled labor.

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Topics discussed in microeconomics

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Principles and elasticity of the demand and supply, individual decision making, and firms cost and outputs.

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Basic decision problems

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C-P-D-G
Consumption
Production
Distribution
Growth over time

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Tools of Economics

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L-M-S
Logic
Mathematics
Statistics

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Logic

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Is a science that deals with sound thinking and reasoning.

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Mathematics

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Is a science that deals with numbers and operations.

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Statistics

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Is a branch of mathematics that engages with the analysis and interpretation of numerical data.

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Economic/Production Resources

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Are the resources or inputs used to produce the goods and services that people want.

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Land

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Is categorized as fixed resources

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Labor

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Is the exerted effort of individuals when producing goods and services

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Human Capital

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Comprises all able bodied people capable of working in the nation’s economy and offering other individuals or businesses different services

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Capital

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Is the man made goods or resources used when producing other goods and services

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Monetary Resources

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Mov a nation’s economy as people purchase and sell resources to people and businesses

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Savings

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Is part of the person or economy’s income not spent on consumption

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Entrepreneurship

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Is an economic activity that might earn the entrepreneur a profit or incur a loss

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Foreign Exchange

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Is the dollar and the dollar reserves that the company has

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Scarcity

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Is a condition facing all societies because insufficient productive resources satisfy peoples unlimited wants.

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Opportunity Cost

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Is the value of the best-foregone alternative or what is given up when one chooses.

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There is no such thing as a free lunch (TINSTAAFL)

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Explains the notion of opportunity costs.

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Positive Economics

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Is an economic analysis that considers economic conditions ‘as they are’ or considers economics ‘as it is’.

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Normative Economics

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Is an economic analysis that judges economic conditions ‘as these should be’.

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Ceteris Paribus

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A greek term meaning all other things health constant or all else equal, is an assumption used in analyzing the relationship between two variables as the other factors are unchanged.

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Applied Science

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Deals with applying scientific knowledge to problems to develop practical solutions

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Applied Economics

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Is the study of economics relative to real life situations by observing how theories work in practice.

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Economic Theory

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Simplifies economic reality used to make predictions about the real world

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Econometrics

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Is the application of statistical and mathematical theories to economics for testing hypothesis and future forecasting trends

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Economic System

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Is the set of mechanisms and institutions that resolve questions of what how and for whom. It is how society responds to basic economic questions

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Demand

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Is a relationship showing the quantities of a good that consumers are willing and able to buy for period at various prices other things held constant.

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Demand Schedule

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Is a table showing the relationship between prices and specific quantities demanded at each

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Demand Curve

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Is a curve or line showing the quantities of a particular good demand that various prices during a given period other things constant

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Law of Demand

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States that the quantity of demanded products per period relates inversely to their price or other things constant

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Substitution Effects

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Is felt when a product’s price changes demand due to people buying and consuming other substitute goods

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Income Effect

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Is felt when a product’s price changes a consumers real income or purchasing power

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Income Effect

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Is felt when a product’s price changes a consumers real income or purchasing power

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Marginal utility

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Is the change in total economic utility

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Economic utility

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Is the amount of satisfaction a consumer receives from the consumption of a product or service

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Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility

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States that the more of the product or service an individual consumes per period other things constant the smaller the marginal utility of each additional unit consumed

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Demand Function

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Shows the relationship between the demand for commodity and the factors

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The current price of product a is 7 pesos the intercept of the demand curve is 4 the slope is 0.25 compute how much of product a will be demanded by consumer z

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Qd = a-bP
=4 - 0.25(7)
=4-1.75
= 2.25 units of Product A

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Taste or Preference

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Is consumers personal likes or dislikes for certain goods and services

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Population Change

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An increase in the demand for some good or services particularly for basic goods results from increasing population

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Substitute Goods

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Are interchange with another good usually offered at the lower price does making them are attractive to customers

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Complementary Goods

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Compliment each other and one good cannot exist with other good

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Supply

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Is a relationship showing the quantities of goods producers traveling and able to sell at various prices to given period and other things are held
constant

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Supply Schedule

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Is a table listing the various prices of a product and specific quantity supplied at each of these prices at the given time

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Supply Curve

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Is a curve or line showing the quantities of a particular good supplied at various prices during a given period and other things health constant

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Market Supply Curve

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Shows the total quantities of all producers at various prices

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Market Demand Curve

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Is the sum of the individual demand curves for all consumers in the market

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Quantity Demanded

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Is the amount demanded at the particular price

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Quantity Supplied

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Is the amount offered for sale at a specific price is shown by the point in the given supply curve

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Law of Supply

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States that the quantity of products supplied during a period is usually directly related to its price other things constant

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Supply Function

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Is a mathematical notation that links the dependent variable quantity supplied with various independent variables to determine quantity supplied

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Optimization in the Use of Factors of Production

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An increase in supply will happen when there is an optimization of the utilization of product factors

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Technological Change

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There is an increase in the supply brought by the introduction of cost-reducing innovations.

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Market Equilibrium

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Is when the quantity consumers are willing and able to buy equals the quantity producers are willing and able to sell.

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Equilibrium Price

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Equates quantity demanded with quantity supplied.

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Equillibrium market price

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Is the price agreed upon by the seller to offer his good or service for sale and for the buyer to pay for it.

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Disequilibrium

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Is a mismatch between the quantity demanded and quantity supplied as the market seeks equilibrium.

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Consumer Surplus

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Is the difference between what consumers are willing and able to pay for a given quantity of a good and what they pay.

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Price Controls

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Are the government specification of minimum or maximum prices for certain goods and services

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Price floor

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Is a legal minimum price below which a product cannot be sold

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Price Ceiling

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Is a legal maximum selling price above which a product cannot be sold

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Law of Supply and Demand

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States that price decreases when supply is greater than demand and increases when demand is greater than supply

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Elasticity

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Measures how much buyers and sellers respond to changes in market conditions

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Coefficient of Elasticity

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Is the number of paint when the percentage change in demand is divided by the percentage change in determinant

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Demand Elasticity

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Is a measure of the degree of responsiveness of quantity demanded of a product to the given change in one of the independent variables that affect demand for the product

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Price Elasticity of Demand (Ed)

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Is the responsiveness of consumers demand to the change and the price of goods sold.

Ed=percentage change in quantity demanded/percentage change in price

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Arc Elasticity

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Is computed by choosing two points on a demand curve and comparing the percentage changes in the quantity and the price and those two points

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Inelastic

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The demand for a product is inelastic when the change in quantity demanded is less than the price change

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Elastic

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The demand for a product is elastic when the change in quantity demanded is greater than the price change

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Unitary elastic

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The demand for a product is unitary elastic when the change in quantity demanded is equal to the price change

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Income elasticity of demand

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Is the responsiveness of consumers demand to the change in their income.

Ei= percentage change in quantity demanded /percentage change in income

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Normal good

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An increase in income brings a rise in demand for the good

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Inferior Good

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An increase in incomings of all in the demand for the good

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Cross price Elasticity of demand

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Is the responsiveness of demand for a good concerning the changes in the price of related goods.

Exy= percentage change in quantity of X demanded/percentage change in the price of Y

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Substitute good

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Two goods that have a positive relationship between the quantity demanded of one good and the price of the other are considered substitutes

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Complementary good

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Too goods that have a negative relationship between the quantity demanded of one good and the price of the other are considered compliments

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Perfectly price inelastic

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When the price changes do not affect the quantity demanded

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Perfectly price elastic

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Given that any quantity will be demanded only at a prevailing price

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Supply Elasticity

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Measures the degree of supplies responsiveness to a given price change.

Es= percentage change in quantity supplied/percentage change in price

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Supply inelastic

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The quantity supplied is price inelastic if a price change generates a less than proportionate change in the quantity supplied

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Supply elastic

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The quantity supplied is price elastic if a percentage price change leads to a more than proportionate change in the quantity supplied

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Supply unitary elastic

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The quantity supplied is unitary elastic if the change in quantity supplied is equal to the price change

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Market structures

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Is a classification system for the key traits of the market including the number of firms the similarity of the products they sell and the ease of entry into an exit from the market structure

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Four major types of market structures

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Perfect Competition
Monopoly
Monopolistic Competition
Oligopoly

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Bilateral monopoly

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A market situation in which there is one seller and one buyer

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Bilateral Oligopoly

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Market condition with significant degrees of seller concentration and buyer concentration

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Duopsony

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A market situation with only two buyers and many sellers

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Duopoly

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A subset of oligopoly there are only two suppliers in the market

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Monopsony

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A form of buyer concentration it is a market situation with a single buyer dealing with many small suppliers

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