Test 1 Flashcards

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Markets

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A group of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service where buyers determine demand and sellers will determine supply

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Quantity Demanded

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The amount of the good that consumers are willing and able to pay at the price

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Law Of Demand

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As the price of a good rises, and everything else remains the same, the quantity demanded of that good falls

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Buyers Reservation Price

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Largest dollar amount the consumer is willing and able to pay for the good

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Supply

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Relationship between price and quantity supplied

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Sellers Reservation Price

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Smallest dollar amount for which a producer is willing to sell an additional unit

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Consumers surplus

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Difference between a buyers reservation price and the price actually paid

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Producer surplus

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The difference between a sellers reservation price and the price collected

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9
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Price Ceiling

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A maximum allowable price specified by law

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Price floor

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A minimum allowable price specified by law

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Determinants of Demand

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Income, Prices of related goods (Substitutes and complements), Tastes/preferences, population, expected prices.

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Determinants of supply

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Input Prices, Tech., Weather, Pop., Expectation of future prices

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Elasticity

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A measure of responsiveness of one variable to changes in another

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Elasticity of Demand

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a measure of how responsive Qd is to a change in price of that good.

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Classifications of elasticity

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Ed>1 it is elastic….Ed<1 its inelastic….Ed=1unit elastic (Proportional changes in p and q)….Ed=infinity is perfectly elastic…Ed=0 is perfectly inelastic

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Determinants of inelastic

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Fewer substitutes, necessities, small share of income (coffee, toothpicks)

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Determinants of elastic

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Lots of substitutes, luxuries

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Determinants of supply

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Flexibility of inputs (flexible makes more elastic, and inflexible makes more inelastic), Mobility of inputs (Mobile inputs is elastic and opposite), time (short run is inelastic and long run is elastic)