7th December 2019

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How is the future price related to the current demand?

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If the price is expected to drop, current demand will fall. If the price is expected to rise, current demand will fall. Current demand is not related to future price. If the price is expected to drop, current demand will fall.

Also asked, how does an increase in price affect total revenue?

In economics, the total revenue test is a means for determining whether demand is elastic or inelastic. If an increase in price causes an increase in total revenue, then demand can be said to be inelastic, since the increase in price does not have a large impact on quantity demanded.

How do changes in price affect demand?

The four basic laws of supply and demand are: If demand increases and supply remains unchanged, then it leads to higher equilibrium price and higher quantity. If demand decreases and supply remains unchanged, then it leads to lower equilibrium price and lower quantity.

Is milk an inelastic good?

If they reduce their quantity demand, this drop in QD is proportionally smaller than the price increase. Therefore milk is inelastic. Addictive goods are inelastic and milk is not an addictive good, so demand for milk is elastic.

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What happens to a market when there is an increase in supply?

What happens to a market in equilibrium when there is an increase in supply? Quantity supplied will exceed quantity demanded, so the price will drop. Excess supply means that producers will make less of the good. Undersupply means that the good will become very expensive.

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How does the elasticity affect a company's pricing policy?

How does elasticity affect a company's pricing policy? If demand is elastic at the current price, the company knows that an increase in price would reduce total revenues. Demand for a good can be inelastic at a low price, but elastic at a high price.

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What is a company's total revenue?

Revenue is the amount of money a company receives in exchange for its goods and services. The revenue received by a company is usually listed on the first line of the income statement as revenue, sales, net sales or net revenue.

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What is the theory of competitive pricing?

Competitive pricing is setting the price of a product or service based on what the competition is charging. This pricing method is used more often by businesses selling similar products, since services can vary from business to business, while the attributes of a product remain similar.

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Can Expectations change the demand for products?

Shifts of the Demand Curve. Other changes that can shift the demand curve include the change in price of competitive products, a change in consumers' income level and a change in consumer tastes.

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Is the demand for milk elastic or inelastic?

If they reduce their quantity demand, this drop in QD is proportionally smaller than the price increase. Therefore milk is inelastic. Addictive goods are inelastic and milk is not an addictive good, so demand for milk is elastic.

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How could the government have an influence on supply?

They can impose import quotas to reduce the supply of imports and protect domestic producers. The increased number of buyers will use market forces to to increase the supply. They can also impose a tax to curb demand, which then causes market forces to dry up the supply.

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What does the demand curve measure?

In economics, the demand curve is the graph depicting the relationship between the price of a certain commodity and the amount of it that consumers are willing and able to purchase at any given price. It is a graphic representation of a market demand schedule.

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What is the income effect?

The income effect represents the change in an individual's or economy's income and shows how that change impacts the quantity demanded of a good or service. The relationship between income and quantity demanded is a positive one; as income increases, so does the quantity of goods and services demanded.

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What is an elastic product?

Elasticity is important because it describes the fundamental relationship between the price of a good and the demand for that good. Elastic goods and services generally have plenty of substitutes. As an elastic service/good's price increases, the quantity demanded of that good can drop fast.

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What does the term elastic describe?

Elastic is a term used in economics to describe a change in the behavior of buyers and sellers in response to a price change for a good or service. How the demand for the good or service reacts in response to a change in price determines the demand elasticity or inelasticity for that good.

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What is the market demand schedule?

In economics, a Market Demand Schedule is a tabulation of the quantity of a good that all consumers in a market will purchase at a given price. Generally, there is an inverse relationship between the price and the quantity demanded. The graphical representation of a demand schedule is called a demand curve.

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What is the individual demand schedule?

Individual demand schedule refers to a tabular statement showing various quantities of a commodity that a consumer is willing to buy at various levels of price, during a given period of time.

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What does it mean when there is a shift in the demand curve?

Increases in demand are shown by a shift to the right in the demand curve. This could be caused by a number of factors, including a rise in income, a rise in the price of a substitute or a fall in the price of a complement.

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How is a decrease in the price of a good illustrated on a demand graph?

According to the law of demand, as the price of a good or service increases, the: Quantity demanded of the good or service will decrease. If good A is considered to be an inferior good, when incomes rise: The demand for good A will decrease and the demand curve will shift to the left.

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What does the elasticity of demand measure?

The price elasticity of demand measures the sensitivity of the quantity demanded to changes in the price. Demand is inelastic if it does not respond much to price changes, and elastic if demand changes a lot when the price changes. Necessities tend to have inelastic demand.

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What happens to the equilibrium price and quantity when demand increases?

Shift Effects. Upward shifts in the supply and demand curves affect the equilibrium price and quantity. If the supply curve shifts upward, meaning supply decreases but demand holds steady, the equilibrium price increases but the quantity falls. For example, if gasoline supplies fall, pump prices are likely to rise.

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How does a consumer expectation affect demand for certain goods?

The Consumer's Income. The effect that income has on the amount of a product that consumers are willing and able to buy depends on the type of good we're talking about. In other words, for these goods when income rises the demand for the product will increase; when income falls, the demand for the product will decrease

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What does it mean for demand to be unitary?

A situation that occurs when the price elasticity of demand is equal to negative one (-1). For a business, when a product exhibits unitary demand this means that a given percent shift in the price of the product results in an equal but opposite percent change in the amount of product demanded.

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