Understanding Microeconomic Market Dynamics

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Supply and Demand Dynamics Revision Sheet

1. 📌 Essentials

  • Demand: Quantity consumers are willing to buy at prices; slopes downward.
  • Supply Quantity producers are willing to sell at various prices; slopes upward.
  • Price Elasticity of Demand (PED): Measures how much QD responds to price changes.
  • Elastic demand: PED > 1; small price change causes large QD change.
  • Inelastic demand: PED < 1; QD less responsive to price.
  • Unitarity: PED = 1; proportional change in QD to price change.
  • Perfectly inelastic: PED = 0; QD unchanged regardless of price.
  • Perfectly elastic: PED approaches infinity; QD drops to zero if price changes.
  • Income elasticity: Response of demand to income changes; positive for normal goods, negative for inferior.
  • Market response: Demand/supply shifts based on price, income, advertising, and policies.

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1. What happens to the market price when demand exceeds supply?

2. What does a PED greater than 1 indicate about the demand for a good?

3. If the price elasticity of demand (PED) for a product is greater than 1, what does this indicate?

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Demand — definition?

Quantity consumers are willing to buy at a price.

Demand — definition?

Quantity consumers are willing to buy at various prices.

Elasticity — role?

Measures responsiveness of Q to P or income.

Supply — definition?

Quantity producers are willing to sell at various prices.

Price elasticity of demand — mechanism?

Ratio of % change in QD to % change in P.

Elastic demand — PED?

PED > 1; QD responds strongly to price changes.

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