Topic 5 – Demand‚ Supply and government policy (Week five Oct 6th – Oct 13th) Outline: 1. Price Ceiling: -- General Analysis; -- Example: Rent Control; 2. Price Floor: -- General Analysis; -- Example: minimum wage law; 3. The Incidence of Sales Tax -- Key Results; -- Numerical Examples: a)Tax levied on sellers; b)Tax levied on buyers; -- Elasticities of demand and supply; Price Ceiling A legal maximum on the price at which a good can be sold 1) General Analysis Price 12 PE 8 Shortage 16 QE
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Supply and Demand are the two most used words in economics (Colander‚ 2004 p.83). My basic understanding of these two terms is that: When there is a lower supply of something than meets the consumers wants‚ only those willing to pay a higher price will be able to satisfy their demand. Likewise‚ when there is a higher supply of something than is needed to satisfy the wants of consumers; theoretically‚ consumers will be able to buy their article at a lesser cost. With the holiday season upon us‚ and
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Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________ ID: A Test 2 5. If the economy is in a recessionary gap and the price level falls very slowly‚ then the result will be a prolonged period of a. high unemployment. b. production above potential GDP. c. shortages in supply. d. inflation whenever supply increases. Figure 10-8 6. The slope of the consumption function is measured by the marginal propensity to save. 7. If the stock market falls by 25 percent
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supply and demand‚ elasticity of demand‚ consumer behavior and utility maximization‚ and the costs of production both short-run and long-run. I will also be demonstrating the ability to clearly present views in written and/or oral expression. On the web‚ I will research additional information about the A-Phone and the Pomegranate. The task below also requires me to draw graphs of supply and demands increases and decreases. When the task is complete you will have learned about the demand curve of an
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Question 1.1. (TCO 1) Which one of the following Windows NET commands options is not used to control services with the NET ????? ServiceName? (Points : 4) STOP START CONTINUE PAUSE DELETE Question 2.2. (TCO 1) The netsh command that will set the IP Address of the interface name "NIC" to 192.168.100.10 255.255.255.0 with a metric of 1 is _____. (Points : 4) netsh interface set ip address "NIC" source=static 192.168.100.10 255.255.255
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“Effects of Taxes on Demand and Supply” Definition: A fee charged ("levied") by a government on a product‚ income‚ or activity. If tax is levied directly on personal or corporate income‚ then it is a direct tax. If tax is levied on the price of a good or service‚ then it is called an indirect tax. Overview: The legal definition and the economic definition of taxes differ in that economists do not consider many transfers to governments to be taxes. For example‚ some transfers to the public
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(Demand Under Perfect Competition) What type of demand curve does a perfectly competitive firm face? Why? The demand curve for an individual firm is equal to the equilibrium price of the market. The market demand curve is downward-sloping. 2. Explain the different options a firm has to minimize losses in the short run. The firm in a perfectly competitive market can only choose to produce at a loss or temporarily shut down. 3. (The Short-Run Firm Supply Curve) Each of the following situations
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Supply & Demand ● P1 was the market clearing price‚ but then one of determinants of demand changed and D↑ ● P2 is the new market clearing price Surplus & Shortage ● results in a new market clearing price and quantity ● consumers bid up prices that are too low to clear the market ● suppliers put products “on sale” when prices are too high to clear the market Surplus Qs>Qd Shortage Qd>Qs ● when P=P1 the Demand is to purchase Q1 ● but the suppliers are channeling a lot of their goods
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Consumers demand In fact‚ the overseas market accounts for a high proportion in Nike’s total sales. Until last year‚ Nike’s international market sales beyond the U.S. market sales lasting for four years‚ but the U.S. market still the Nike’s largest market. Although 61% of Nike’s revenue from athlete shoes and Nike occupies 45 percent of the U.S. athletic shoe market cannot help but be influenced by consumers’ demand to owning another pair of sneakers. Nike is not the only one in suffering from American
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SUPPLY‚ DEMAND AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES When analyzing government policies‚ supply and demand are the first and most useful tools of analysis. Price controls such as‚ price ceiling‚ price floor and tax incidence mentioned in this chapter show how price controls affect economy. Price ceiling is a legal maximum on the price at which a good can be sold and price floor is a legal minimum on the price at which a good can be sold. Evaluating
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