GASOLINE According to the law of demand‚ when the price of a good and the quantity demanded have an inverse relationship. When the price of a good increases‚ the quantity demanded decreases. There are various factors affecting the demand for gasoline. These include: 1. The availability and prices of substitutes and complements: A good is referred to as a substitute for another good‚ when it can be used as a replacement for the good. When the price of one good goes up‚ the demand for the substitute
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"It’s producing some very anxious children." Psychologists say they are seeing many troubled young people from middle-class homes who feel they can never be "good enough". In The Price of Privilege‚ a new book just out in the US‚ the psychologist Madeline Levine claims children from affluent middle-class homes are three times more likely than other children to suffer depression and anxiety in later life. Parents are increasingly
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else which is increased tension and worry that is caused by the uncontrolled price increase of the daily essentials. Each year before the month of ramadan‚ the prices of the daily essentials increase twise or even thrice as much. Every year the government tries his best to control the price hike of the daily essentials but fails eventually. But this year‚ the government has taken some unprecedented steps to control the price hike. It is quite an admirable fact that the government has addressed this
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The Challenges of Price Escalation Introduction One of the biggest challenges of the marketing mix of an international firm is pricing a product. On the contraire to the other elements of the marketing mix: product‚ placement‚ and promotion (whereas are considered a cost to the firm) pricing is the one element that produces revenues. Thus pricing is the key element to succeed or fail expansion efforts (Global Market Today). At the time of selecting the
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1a) Price elasticity of demand (PED) measures the degree of responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a good to a given change in price of the good itself‚ ceteris paribus. It is found by taking the percentage change in quantity demanded of good X divided by the percentage change in the price of good X. The numerical value of the price elasticity of demand is always negative due to the inverse relationship between quantity demanded and price as stated in the law of demand. When we interpret
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ever heard of the catch phrase‚ “What does that have to do with the price of tea in China”. Most people probably are familiar with that phrase as a way of telling a person that the point they are making doesn’t have much to do with the main topic of the discussion. Some think the phrase originated from economists who “describe everything economic as affecting everything else.” This week’s discussion topic may not be about the price of tea in China but instead may I lead in my response to this week’s
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Price Elasticity of Demand is used to measure the responsiveness of the quantity demanded to the change in price. It is measured by the percentage of change in quantity over the percent change in price [% ∆ in quantity demanded/ % ∆ in price]. Price elasticity of demand (PED) does not have any units as all the units cancel out while calculating it. Also‚ │PED│ is usually negative because the value of quantity demanded will always be inverse to its price (i.e. when price gets high‚ quantity demanded
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Rising food prices Introduction: Food prices have been on the rise and have become a global issue. Prices have soared over the past year and a half and threaten to go up further if issues are not addressed immediately. Below is a look at how prices have been over the past year. Figure 1. FAO Food Price Index: February 2007 - January 2008 Source FAO‚ 2008 In this project‚ we attempt to find out the causes for this price rise‚ the trends of the rise and the effects that this rise has had on us. Causes:
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Rising Price in India wrote by : MILAN CHATERJEE ‚india from : http://www.publishyourarticles.org/eng/articles/rising-price-in-india.html Today‚ India is facing many problems – the problem of corruption‚ the problem of unemployment‚ the problem of illiteracy‚ the problem of population‚ so on and so forth. The problem of rising prices is one of the most important problems that Indian is facing now. This problem is two-fold to check the rising prices and‚ if possible‚ to bring the prices down.
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The price elasticity of demand (PED) is “a measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in price of the good” (Mankiw 2007‚ p.90). It is a form of measure to determine how willing consumers are to move away from the good as the price of the good rises. Most of the time‚ there are factors that determines the PED‚ such as availability of close substitutes‚ necessities versus luxuries‚ definition of the market and time horizon. In order to calculate the PED‚ a formula is
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