supply Flashcards
supply
the quantity of a good/service producers are willing and able to produce at a given price in a given time period.
law of supply
direct relationship between price and quantity supplied
profit motive
- direct relationship between price and quantity
- producers supply more when the price goes up
- willingness and ability greater to supply when the price is higher.
non-price factors effecting supply
- productivity
- indirect tax
- no. of firms
- technology
- subsidy
- weather
- cost of production
individual supply
the supply of one firm or producer
market supply
the total supply of the market
productivity
if workers become more productive they are producing more in the same period of time, this is going to reduce cost of production and shifting supply curve to the right from s1 to s2.
if productivity reduces cost of production increases as your paying workers the same amount but they are producing less, supply curve shifts to the left s1-s3.
indirect tax
tax on production that firms have to pay will increase cost pf production, so if indirect tax increases the supply curve will shift to the left from s1-s3.
no.of firms
the more firms that enter the market the supply curve will shift to the right from s1-s2, there would be more supply in the market now.
less firms result in supply curve shifting from s1-s3
technology
increases willingness and ability to supply or decreases the willingness and ability to supply by effecting cost of production. improving tech reduces cost of production and shifts supply curve to the right from s1-s2.
subsidy
a money grant given by the government to producers to lower costs of production and to encourage an increase in output. so if a subsidy is given then the supply curve would shift to the right because cost of production have been lowered.
weather
good weather would allow supply of ice-cream,holidays, outings to increase, bad weather would decrease these but could possibly increase the purchase of raincoats, umbrella so depending on the what good is supplied weather can cause right and left shifts.
cost of production
-transport
-labour
-oil
-raw materials
-utilities
-regulations
if any of these increase then the supply curve would shift to the left from s1-s3, if any of these decrease then the supply curve will shift to the right from s1-s2