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What is PED?
The responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a good or service to a change in price.
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How is PED calculated?
Percentage change in quantity demanded / percentage change in price.
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Why is the value of PED negative?
Because of the assumed inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded.
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What is the value of PED with price inelastic demand?
Between 0 and 1.
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What does price inelastic demand mean?
Changes in price lead to smaller percentage changes in the quantity demanded.
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What is the value of PED with price elastic demand?
Greater than 1.
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What does price elastic demand mean?
Changes in price lead to larger percentage changes in the quantity demanded.
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What is the value of PED with unitary elastic demand?
1.
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What does unitary elastic demand mean?
Changes in price lead to the same percentage changes in quantity demanded.
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What is the value of PED with perfectly elastic demand?
0.
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What does perfectly elastic demand mean?
Changes in price lead to no changes in quantity demanded.
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How does price elastic demand affect total revenue following a price change?
Reduction in price = increase in TR, increase in price = decrease in TR.
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How does price inelastic demand affect total revenue following a price change?
Reduction in price = decrease in TR, increase in price = increase in TR.
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What are 5 examples that affect PED?
Availability of close substitutes, percentage of income spent on product, nature of product, time period, and broad or specific market definition.
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How do substitutes affect PED?
Close substitutes = price elastic.
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How does percentage of income spent on product affect PED?
Large percentage = price elastic.
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How does nature of product affect PED?
Necessity/addictive = price inelastic.
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How does time period affect PED?
Short run = price inelastic, long run = price elastic.
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How does broad or specific market definition affect PED?
Broad category = price inelastic, market segment = price elastic.
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What is YED?
The responsiveness of demand to a change in real income.
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How is YED calculated?
Percentage change in quantity demanded / percentage change in price.
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What goods have a positive YED?
Normal goods.
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What's the nature of normal goods?
A rise in income will lead to an increase in demand.
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What goods have a negative YED?
Inferior goods.
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What's the nature of inferior goods?
A rise in income will lead to a fall in demand.
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What's the value of YED with with income elastic demand?
Greater than 1.
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What does income elastic demand mean?
The increase in real income has led to a greater percentage increase in demand.
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What are income elastic products often referred to as?
Luxury goods.
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What's the value of YED with with income inelastic demand?
Between 0 and 1.
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What does income inelastic demand mean?
The increase in real income has lead to a smaller percentage increase in demand.
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What are income inelastic products often referred to as?
Basic goods or necessities.
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What's the value of YED with with negative income elastic demand?
Less than 0.
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What does negative income elastic demand mean?
The increase in real income has led to a fall in demand.
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What are negative income elastic products often referred to as?
Inferior goods.
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What is XED?
The responsiveness of the demand for a product following a change in price of another product.
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How is XED calculated?
Percentage change in quantity demanded of product A / percentage change in price of product B.
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What does a positive XED indicate?
Products A and B are substitutes.
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What does a positive XED mean?
A rise in the price of product B leads to an increase in demand for product A.
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What does a negative XED indicate?
Products A and B are complements.
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What does a negative XED mean?
A rise in price of product B leads to a fall in demand for product A.
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