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Week 4 - Equilibrium + Elasticity Flashcards

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What is Equilibrium in a Market

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Occurs when price balances the buying plans of buyers and selling plans of sellers

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How can we see equilibrium on a S/D graph

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Where Quantity Demanded = Quantity Supplied

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What is Excess Supply

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When Market Price > Equilibrium Price
- Q supplied > Q demanded

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Implications of Excess Supply

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Sellers cannot find buyers for all units supplied to market

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What is the pressure from excess supply

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Downward pressure on prices as sellers try to bring more consumers into the market
- Q supplied falls in response to decrease in prices

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What is Excess Demand

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If Market Price < Equilibrium Price
- Q Demanded > Q Supplied

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Implications of Excess Demand

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Upward pressure on prices, as buyers compete for limited units in market
- Same time Q supplied grows in response to increasing prices

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When does Upward/Downwards pressure continue

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Until excess supply is eliminated (downward) or excess demand is eliminated (upward)
- Both actions will move market towards equilibrium

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Steps to holding an economic analysis (Comparative statics)

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1) Start with Market Equilibrium
2) Introduce a ‘shock’ holding all else constant, ceteris paribus
3) Compare before and after

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What do we call a micro economic analysis

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Partial Equilibrium analysis (focus on single market holding all else constant)

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Consumer and firms will only participate in markets if

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It is beneficial to them

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How can we measure and observe changes in benefits to participants

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Welfare Analysis

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Key Questions to ask in a Welfare Analysis

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1) How happy are you when consume a product?
2) How happy are producers when they sell it?

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What is consumer surplus

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Difference between what consumers are WTP and what they actually pay (MB - Market Price)

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Consumer Surplus on a graph is given by

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Area between demand curve and price line up to quantity consumed

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Producer surplus is

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The amount producers receive (market price) above the minimum price required to make them supply the goods (shown on supply curve MC)

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Producer Surplus graphically

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Area between the price line and the Supply Curve up to the quantity produced

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Equation linking Producer Surplus and Profit

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PS = Profit + FC

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How to Calculate Total Surplus/Welfare

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TS = CS + PS

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At equilibrium, the marginal net benefit of producing an additional unit is (why)

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0:
- Total net benefits of both consumers and producers
- Sum of CS and PS

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CS and PS will be less, losses occur, when we

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Overproduce

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If more than Q* units are traded, we know that

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1) MC > MB
2) Someone is worse off, either buyer paid more than his MB, or seller received a price less than her MB (or both)

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If fewer than Q* units are traded

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Outcome is not efficient
- Possible to increase the number of units traded in order to make the consumer and/or the producer better off, without making any one worse off

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What is Pareto Efficiency

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No situation exists where making someone better off doesn’t make someone else worse off

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The Pareto Efficient outcome __
Maximises total surplus: - Outcome is not Pareto efficient if it is possible to reallocate resources and make someone better off without making someone else worse
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Outcome in a competitive market is Pareto Efficient
For all the trade up to the competitive market equilibrium (Q*), MB>=MC - Hence he consumer is willing to pay more than the extra cost required to make the item - Trading all units until Q0 increases total surplus (increases CS, PS, or both)
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Competitive market outcome and efficiency:
Competitive market equilibrium, all the potential gains from trade are exhausted
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Effects of Competitive Market and Efficiency
1) No consumers left in market with WTP > Sellers MC to provide an additional unit 2) Importantly, price mechanism ensures that people with highest value for those product end up with the goods (WTP > Market Price) and firms with lowest costs are ones who make the product (firms MC < Market Price) 3) Competitive market manages to maximise TP (reach a Pareto Efficient outcome)
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Impacts of Pareto Efficiency
1) Possible that 1+ outcomes in an economy exist 2) Outcome that is Pareto Efficient is not automatically the most fair or equitable - or even desirable
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How do we measure how a change in variable affects another
Through Elasticity studies
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What is Elasticity
Measures the responsiveness of one variable to another holding all others constant, ceteris paribus
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What is elasticity with respect to equilibrium
How does the equilibrium quantity traded responds to a change in the market price, or how does demand respond to changes in a consumers income
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Elasticity of y with respect to x is given by
Point = %Change in Y/%Change in X Midpoint = (without%)Point *(Average of X points)/(Average of Y Points)
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2 Ways of Determining Elasticity of 2 variables
1) Point Method (using initial methods) 2) Midpoint Arc Method (Average of initial and final points)
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Interpretation of Elasticity in General
At this price, if price of __ (increases/decreases) by 1%, then ___ of __ (increases/decreases) by __%
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Negative signs mean in elasticity calculations
Follows the law of demand (take the absolute value)
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Elasticity depends on
Slope of Demand Curve, steeper = lower own price of elasticity (ceteris paribus)
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Interpretation of Elasticity (abs values)
>1, demand is elastic <1, demand is inelastic =1, demand in unitary elastic =0, demand is perfectly inelastic =infinity, demand is perfectly elastic
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Why do we use elasticity
Useful to have an understanding because business might be interested in effect of price change on quantity sold, revenue and profits
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Price elasticity depends on
Slope of the line and reference point on curve used to calculate elasticity
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If slop of demand curve = constant
Elasticity varies because proportional change in quantity (and price) varies depending on size of quantity (or price) @ particular point
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Points in every linear demand curve
1) Inelastic section (Q high and P low) 2) Unit elastic (middle of demand curve) 3) Elastic section (Q low and P high)
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How to determine elasticity of demand with TR as price changes
TR(P) = P * q(P)
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What do we get if we differentiate TR(P) function
Q(1+elasticity(Demand))
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What does q(1+elasticity(demand)) show
1) Direct link between price elasticity of demand and change in TR 2) In order for TR to increase with a price increase, RHS > 0 - True iff e>-1, if demand in inelastic - On other hand, if demand in elastic, e<-1, TR falls if MP rises 3) TR is maximised when demand in unit-elastic, middle of demand curve
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Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand
1) Sustainability with other goods 2) Luxuries vs Necessities 3) Proportion of Income spent on goods 4) Timeframe
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Income Elasticity measures __
Responsiveness of change in quantity demanded as change in income, ceteris paribus
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Income Elasticity Equations
Point = %Change in Q Demanded/%Change in Income Midpoint = (No %)Point * (Y0 + Y1)/(Q0 + Q1)
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Income Elasticity Interpretation
>1, income elastic - luxury goods 0-1, income inelastic - Normal goods <0, negative - inferior good =0, invariant to changes in income - Neutral good (Sign tells us about the nature of the good)
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Cross-Price Elasticity __
Measures the responsiveness of change in quantity demanded for good X with respect to price of good Y change - ceteris paribus
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Cross-Price Elasticity Equations
Point = %Change in Q of X/%Change in P of Y Midpoint = (without%)Point * (PY0 + PY1)/(QX0 + QX1)
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Interpretation of Cross-Price Elasticity
<0 for complementary goods =0 for independent goods >0 for substitute goods
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Importance of Cross-Price Elasticity
Governments as it plays an impact of taxes on consumer behaviour and important in business for multi-brand product management
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What is Price-Elasticity of Supply
Measures the responsiveness of quantity to a change in price of a product, ceteris paribus
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Equations of Price-Elasticity of Supply
Point = %Change in Q Supplied/%Change in Price
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Implication of Price-Elasticity of Supply
>0 (follows the law of supply) >1 - Implies Elastic Supply <1 - Implies Inelastic Supply =0 - Implies perfectly inelastic supply =infinity - Implies Perfectly Elastic Supply

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