Determinants of demand for a good or service in a market

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  • Created on: 19-12-11 16:46
What is a market?
a place where buyers & sellers meet for exchange
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Is price the exchange value?
True
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What does a product market refer to?
the utility that derives from a good/ service as the customer wants these
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What is a commodity market?
a market that sells raw materials/minerals which are used in production of goods/services
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Do labour markets buy a sell labour for goods and services e.g. teachers?
True
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What is demand?
the quantity of a good/service purchased at a given price over a given time
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What is essential about effective demand?
it has to be backed by money
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There is a contraction(upwards) in the demand curve if...
price increases
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There is a extention in the demand curve if....
the price decreases
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What does PED measure?
the responsiveness of demand due to a change in price
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How do you calculate PED?
% CHANGE IN DEMAND/%CHANGE IN PRICE
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What does it mean if PED=1
unit elasticity- same change
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What does it mean if PED= infinity?
perfectly inelastic= no effect on D
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What does it mean if PED=0?
perfectly inelastic= no effect on D
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Total revenue measures the total payments from what a firm has sold?
True
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What must the elasticity be to increase revenue?
unit elasticity
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What does the elasticity need to be to decrease revenue?
elastic/inelastic
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What makes something Price elastic of demand?
substitutes, luxury, high prices, long time periods
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What makes something Price inelastic of demand?
necessity,cheap prices,addictivem short time periods
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What does YED measure and how is it calculated?
responsiveness of demand to change in income and it is calculated by % change in demand/ %change in income
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Is it true that with normal goods the more income the more demand and with inferior goods it is the opposite?
True
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What does XED measure?
responsiveness fo D of good 1 to change in P of good 2
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Do labour markets buy a sell labour for goods and services e.g. teachers?

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some issues with spelling and grammar, but overall very good. :)

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