Topic 5 – Demand‚ Supply and government policy (Week five Oct 6th – Oct 13th) Outline: 1. Price Ceiling: -- General Analysis; -- Example: Rent Control; 2. Price Floor: -- General Analysis; -- Example: minimum wage law; 3. The Incidence of Sales Tax -- Key Results; -- Numerical Examples: a)Tax levied on sellers; b)Tax levied on buyers; -- Elasticities of demand and supply; Price Ceiling A legal maximum on the price at which a good can be sold 1) General Analysis Price 12 PE 8 Shortage 16 QE
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DD and an increase in DD (C)4. If the price falls from $8 to $7‚ the quantity of demanded rises from 4 to 6‚ then total revenue (A)increase‚ and demand is inelastic.(B)decrease‚ and demand is elastic (C)increase‚ and demand is elastic. (D)decrease‚ and demand is inelastic (A)5. Milk has an inelastic demand‚ and beef has an elastic demand. Soppose that a mysterious increase in bovine infertility decrease both the population of dairy cows and the population
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Introduction to Economics Economics: A social science -A study of how people make decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants. Scarcity: Basic problem of Economics -Due to lack of resources (time‚ productive forces‚ etc) some opportunities must be forgone Opportunity cost -Next best alternative forgone when an Economic decision is made Can only forego known alternatives No choices/options will mean no cost Ceteris Paribus: ‘Other things being
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in the quantity demanded in response to a given price of the commodity. ED = Percentage change in Demand of the commodity Percentage change in Price of the commodity Elasticity of Demand • Perfectly inelastic demand (ED = 0) The demand of a commodity is said to be perfectly inelastic when quantity demanded does not change at all in response to change in its price. Eg. Salt. • Less than unit elastic demand (ED < 1) The demand of a commodity is said to be less than unit elastic when the
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has an inelastic demand. Inelastic demand refers to the situation where one unit increase or decrease in the product’s price cause less than one dollar change in the units demanded of that product (Kreps‚ D. M. 1990). If product is luxurious‚ its demand is usually elastic in nature. Elastic demand means one unit change in the price of a product causes more than one unit change in its quantity demanded. E.g. the automobiles and mobiles have elastic demand while salt and sugar have inelastic demand
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relating to elasticity: (a) Do the mentally ill have perfectly inelastic demands for cigarettes and alcohol? Elasticity helps us define the relationship of changes in price and incomes to the effect of supply and demand. The question posed is: do the mentally ill have perfectly inelastic demands for cigarettes and alcohol? First‚ we must define what perfectly inelastic demand is. As defined by our textbook‚ a perfectly inelastic demand is one in which price change results in no change whatsoever
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EGT 1: Task 2-309.1.2-08 & 09 Elasticity of demand is the relationship between the demands for a product with respect to its price. Generally‚ when the demand for a product is high‚ the price of the product decreases. When demand decreases‚ prices tend to climb. Products that exhibit the characteristics of elasticity of demand are usually cars‚ appliances and other luxury items. Items such as clothing‚ medicine and food are considered to be necessities. Essential items usually possess
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in quantity supplied. * Suppliers cannot be picky with the price they sell their goods for * Some goods do not even have a market period (time is too short for any response) * It has a Vertical Supply Curve (meaning it is inelastic) * Price Elasticity of Supply: the Short Run (fixed-plant period): supply is more elastic‚ but not terribly so‚ as the time period is short * The period of time is not enough to change the output significantly; producers have less time
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1- That would be inelastic. Even though people gripe about the rising prices‚ that doesn’t stop people from stopping by the gas pumps to fill up.Elastic is more like candy bars or soda; if priced at 50 cents‚ there will be high demand‚ but if the price rises to 2 dollars‚ the demand will go down.Because there are many alternative brands for Coca Cola that have more or less the same taste. When the price of coca cola rises‚ demand decreases because consumers will find alternative brands that taste
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