ECON 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Normal Good, Economic Equilibrium, Demand Curve
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A competitive market is one with many buyers and sellers. Buyers and sellers so numerous that one can affect market price. Quantity demanded - the amount of the good that buyers are willing and able to. Law of demand - the claim that the quantity demanded of a good falls when the price of. Demand schedule - a table that shows the relationship between the price of a good and. Quantity demanded in the market is the sum of the quantities demanded by all the good rises (all other things equal) the quantity demanded buyers at each price. Change in the quantity demanded - movement along a fixed d curve occurs when p changes (ex. Change in demand - a shift in the d curve occurs when a nonprice determinant of demand changes (ex. income or number of buyers) If buyers increase, d will shift to the right. Demand for a normal good is positively related to income.