ECON 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Price Ceiling, Price Floor, Market Clearing
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Two extreme cases of price elasticity of supply: perfectly inelastic supply. Changes in the price of the good have no effect on the quantity supplied. A perfectly inelastic supply curve is a vertical line: perfectly elastic supply. Even a tiny increase or reduction in the price will lead to very large changes in quantity supplied. A perfectly elastic supply curve is a horizontal line. What factors determine the price elasticity of supply: availability of inputs. The price elasticity of supply tends to be large when inputs are readily available and can be shifted into and out of production at a relatively low cost. Tends to be small when inputs are difficult to obtain: time. The price elasticity of supply tends to grow larger as producers have more time to respond to a price change. Long-run price elasticity of supply is often higher than the short-run elasticity.