ECN 104 Chapter 4: Chapter 4

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Chapter 4: elasticity, consumer surplus and producer surplus. Elasticity allows analysis of supply and demand with greater precision: measure of how many buyers & sellers respond to change in market. Elasticity: a measure of the responsiveness of qd/qs to one of its determinants. & quantities a the reference points for competing % I nterpretation of p rice elasticity of demand. **take absolute value: quantity demanded responds strongly to changes in price. Product/resource demand with a price elasticity coefficient that is greater than one, ed>1. Inelastic demand: www. notesolution. com: quantity demanded doesn"t respond strongly to price changes. Product/resource demand with a price elasticity coefficient that is less than one, ed<1: unit elasticity demand, quantity demanded changes by the same percentage as the price price elasticity coefficient is equal to one, ed = 1. Perfectly inelastic: quantity demanded doesn"t respond to price changes. Perfectly elastic: quantity demanded changes infinitely with any change in price www. notesolution. com.

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Discussion #1

The law of demand states that a fall in the price of a good raises the quantity demanded, and the increase in price leads to a decrease in quantity demanded. The price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of the quantity demanded to a change in price. Demand for a good is said to be elastic if the quantity demanded responds substantially to changes in the price, and the percentage change in quantity demanded is greater than the percentage change in price. Demand is said to be inelastic if the quantity demanded responds only slightly to changes in the price, which indicates that the percentage in price is greater than the percentage in quantity demanded.

However, the extent of responsiveness of quantity demanded to a change in price depends on the nature of a particular good or service in the market. The price elasticity of demand partly depends on the availability of close substitutes. When a large number of substitutes are available, consumers respond to a higher price of a good by buying more of the substitute goods and less of the relatively more expensive good. In addition, goods or services that are considered necessities tend to have less elastic (more inelastic) demand, whereas goods or services that are considered luxuries have more elastic (less inelastic) demands.

Explain why the demand for the good or service provided by the organization you work for is elastic or inelastic. How does this influence pricing decisions?
Provide examples on how the availability of close substitutes affects price elasticity of demand.
Give specific examples of necessities or luxuries, and explain how they affect price elasticity of goods or services.

Please answer ALL bulletins and place the answers under the correct bulletin.

interval (or arc) elasticity

cross-price elasticity

price elasticity of demand

elastic demand

income elasticity

inelastic demand

inframarginal units

marginal revenue

point elasticity

price effect

quantity effect

total revenue

unitary elastic demand

1. __________________ A measure of consumersâ sensitivity or responsiveness to changes in the price of a good or service.

2. ___________________ When the percentage change in price (in absolute value) is more than the percentage change in quantity demanded (in absolute value).

3. ___________________ When the percentage change in quantity demanded (in absolute value) is more than the percentage change in price (in absolute value).

4. ___________________ When the percentage change in quantity demanded (in absolute value) is just equal to the percentage change in price (in absolute value).

5. ___________________ Total amount paid to a producer for a good or service P * Q.

6. ___________________ The effect on total revenue of a change in price, holding quantity constant.

7. ___________________ The effect on total revenue of a change in quantity, holding price constant.

8. ___________________ An elasticity calculated over an interval of a demand curve or demand schedule.

9. ___________________ Elasticity at a specific price or point on a demand curve.

10. ___________________ A measure of how responsive quantity demanded is to a change in income, all other things constant.

11. ___________________ A measure showing how responsive the quantity demanded of one good is to changes in the price of another good, other factors constant.

12. ___________________ The additional revenue received by producing and selling one more unit of output.

13. ___________________ Units of output that could have been sold at a higher price had the firm not lowered its price to sell additional (marginal) units.

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PROBLEM SET ONE -2 - PRICE-ELASTICITY OF DEMAND

	P₁	P₂	Q_D1	Q_D2	I	II	III	IV	V
1	1	2	10	5
2	5	3	40	90
3	12	20	200	200
4	3	2	9	9
5	0.40	1.40	30	15
6	1.2	4.0	20	15
7	7.5	4.6	40	30
8	5	5.000â¦01	1x10⁶	0
9	5	4.9999â¦.	10	1x10⁹
10	6	12	12	6
11	18	36	360	180
12	7	15	24	16
13	7	16	78	78
14	25	65	150	100
15	65	91	1300	780
16	4	5	21	11
17	8	4	30	54
18	140	275	625	495
19	78	91	780	780
20	91	78	780	780

Column I - determine the Price-Elasticity of Demand Coefficient. Find material in Chapter 6 and the Powerpoint of Elasticity Chap 004 19e.ppt

change in quantity demanded change in price

E_D = ---------------------------------------- â ----------------------------

sum of quantities demanded / 2 sum of prices / 2

The data in the first four columns represent price (P) and quantity demanded (Qd) in time 1 (before change in price) and time 2 (after change in price). Note that results should be expressed in absolute terms (see paragraph Elimination of Minus Sign). For example, -1 should be expressed as â1â.

Column II â Based on topic concerning Interpretations of E_D, indicate which applies based on how the quantity demanded changed subsequent to a change in price (elastic, inelastic, etc.)

Column III - you need to determine if the good in question would be considered a necessity, a luxury or neither.

Column IV â Indicate, in monetary terms, how much is the change in total revenue or total expenditure (TR = P X Q_D), from the first price level to the second.

Column V - the direction of the change, also in monetary terms, that is, increasing or decreasing, and by how much? (show a + sign for increasing and a â sign for decreasing).

Note: for any monetary result please include the applicable currency symbol ($, â¬, etc.)

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