1. Suppose an increase in consumers' income causes a decrease in the demand for apples and an increase in the demand for bananas. Which good is inferior and which is normal? How will the equilibrium price and quantity change for each good? The decrease in the demand for apples is inferior while on the other hand, the increase in the demand for bananas is normal. Well with the decrease in the demand for apples the seller has to revaluate the price of it, which means cut it in half or bring it down to a reasonable price in order to get more costumers back. However, with the increase in demand for bananas, would come to a point where he will have an insufficiency of it so he will have to increase the price of it. 2. Would a change in the price of milk likely cause a change in the demand for yogurt, a complement? Explain why. …show more content…
As we all know milk is a component in the yogurt process, so sellers would need milk in order to produce their yogurt. With that being said, the sellers are not happy when the price of milk rise, due to the fact that they still have to buy that milk to make their product, but due to the fact that the price of milk went up, the final price of their yogurt would rise as well in order to make a profit and not a loss. 3. Why is (a) the supply curve upward sloping? (b) the demand curve downward sloping? The supply curves are upward sloping because as the price rises, the quantity also rises and vice versa. For example, let’s say I’m a business owner, and I would like to produce more so I would need more effort from my employees but I might need to pay them more per unit in order to produce more. The demand curves are downward sloping, due to the fact that consumers tend to buy more when the price of goods falls and this is caused by three common reasons, income effect and the diminishing marginal utility. 4. What is the law of demand? Give two examples of how you have observed the law of demand at
There are a couple reasons why the aggregate-demand curve slopes downward. The first is the wealth effect. If the prices are higher, the money one has is worth less. It can be put into perspective by looking at it on a microeconomic level. For example, if you have a $20 bill, and the price for a ham sandwich rises from $5 to $10, you can only buy two sandwiches, rather than four. This shows that lower wealth leads to lower consumption, lower consumption leads to lower production, which means less workers will be need, leading to layoffs. The second reason is the interest-rate effect. As the prices rise, so do the interest rates. Higher interest rates hold down thing...
“If, however, changes occurred in the other determinants of demand, we would expect to have a shift in the entire demand curve” (McGuigan, Moyer, and Harris, 2014). Some of the changes that would cause the demand curve to shift right would be increase in the purchaser’s income, decrease in price of the competitor’s product, a wave of consumers looking to switch from high-calorie food to low-calorie food could also shift the demand curve. For the demand curve to shift left factors such as an increase in price of our competitor, a decrease in our customer’s income, or a third competitor entering our
Economic events are largely governed by the interaction of supply and demand. The law of supply states that with ‘all else being equal’ (ceteris paribus), as market price of a good or service increases/decreases so will an increase/decrease in quantity supplied. In turn, the law of demand states as market price of a good or service increases/decreases ceteris paribus, the quantity demanded will increase/decrease accordingly. The Australian avocado industry is an indicative example of microeconomics - the study of individual consumer or business decision making and spending behaviour in relation to the allocation of a limited resource and the correlation of supply and demand in determining
The Keynes effect says that higher price level will cause a lower real money supply, which would increase the interest rates from the financial market. The demand curve illustrates a relationship by the quantity of output and the price level of the aggregate demand. This demand is expressed over a fixed level of nominal supply in money. Some of the factors that shift the aggregate demand curve to the right are the increase in money supply, government spending or consumption spending or as simply decreasing taxes. The aggregate demand curve is the total sum of every individual sector of the economy, usually described a linear sum.
Aggregate supply and aggregate demand is the total supply and total demand of all goods and services in an economy. Consumer demand for goods and service affect how companies will meet that demand with products. This allows the companies to determine which product will be most profitable to produce. The aggregate supply curve depicts the quantity of real GDP that is supplied by the economy at different price levels. The reasoning used to construct the aggregate supply curve differs from the reasoning used to construct the supply curves for individual goods and services. The supply curve for an individual good is drawn under the assumption that input prices remain constant. As the price of good X rises, sellers' per unit costs of providing good X do not change, and so sellers are willing to supply more of good X hence, the upward slope of the supply curve for good X. The aggregate supply curve, however, is defined in terms of the price level. Increases in the price level will increase the price that producers can get for their products and thus induce more output. But an i...
Every year during the holidays there seems to be a great demand for some particular "hot" toy. This is an example of the effect of _________ on demand.
In economics, particularly microeconomics, demand and supply are defined as, “an economic model of price determination in a market” (Ronald 2010). The price of petrol in Australia is rising, but the demand remains the same, due to the fact that fuel is a necessity. As price rises to higher levels, demand would continue to increase, even if the supply may fall. Singapore is identified as a primary supplier ...
The law of demand states that if everything remains constant (ceteris paribus) when the price is high the lower the quantity demanded. A demand curve displays quantity demanded as the independent variable (the x-axis) and the price as the dependent variable (the y-axis). http://www.netmba.com/econ/micro/demand/curve/
A change in quantity supplied is just a movement from one point to another in the supply curve. In opposite, the cause of a change in supply is a change in one the determinants of supply that shifts the curve either to the left or the right. These determinants are the resource prices, technology, taxes and subsidies, producer expectations, and number of sellers. An equilibrium price is required to produce an equilibrium quantity and a price below that amount is referred as quantity supplied of zero no firms that are entering that particular business. If the coefficient of price is greater than zero, as the price of the output goes up, firms wants to produce more of that output. As the price of the output goes up it becomes more appealing for the firms to shift resources into the production of that output. Therefore, the slope of a supply curve is the change in price divided by the change in quantity. The constant in this equation is something less (negative number always) than zero because it requires strictly a positive...
Basically, Apples and Oranges have same characteristics to fulfill human needs or it the both of things have a realtion as substitute goods. In this part of the question were told that there are a new disease threatening apples plantations. Indirectly, the new disease have affecting demand and supply in market of economy. Furthermore, Demand law stated that the other things being equal, the lower the price of a good, the higher the quantity demanded. Instead, the higher the price of a good, the lower the quantity demanded. The new disease influencing the harvest of apples. The quantity of apples will decreasing because the disease was threaten the harvest quantity of apples (Q0 move to the left into Q1). Refers of the demand law, the quantity of the apples were decreased, so the price of the apples were getting higher (P0 Move up in to P1). Therefore, there is happening 2 Supplies, first supply was occurred in first equilibrium between P0 and Q0, the second supply was occurred in equilibrium between P1 and Q1. After doing transaction between buyers and sellers in market, then they make a deal, it can called Equilibrium. Furthermore, there is a shortage happen in this situation, as you can see in the graphs. So the shortage forced the price to going up for covered the second supply. Next, the shortage also making the quantity must decrease. Therefore, comparing shifting between Old equilibrium (E0) to new equilibrium (E1), there is increasing price in new equilibrium and decreasing quantity.
The diagram shows the income and substitution effect of a consumer for good 1 and good 2, that is the substitution effect for bananas and mangoes .Initially, the consumer is faced with a situation where they choose to consume a combination of both goods 1 and 2, forming a point of equilibrium at point A. at this point, the old budget line of the consumer is tangent to the indifference curve that is located at the outer side (the higher indifference curve). Here, the consumer makes a choice of the amount of good 1 and the amount of good 2 to consume so as to attain the highest level of utility. In this case, the consumer makes a choice to consume 11 units of the good 1 and 8 units of the good 2, forming the equilibrium level at point A. A price change occurs for the good 1,say the price changes from 50 to 70. This is a price increase of 20. following the increase in the price for bananas, good 1, the good becomes more expensive. This brings about a change in the consumption of good 1 by the consumer. Thus the consumption level of the consumer moves along to the point E. this becomes the new equilibrium level following the price increase of 20. At the point E, the new budget line of the consumer is tangent to the indifference curve that is on the lower side in the diagram. The increase of the price of bananas leads to a decline in the amount that is consumed. Hence, the consumption level falls from 11 units to 4 units. On
In conclusion, generally speaking the Law of Supply states that when the selling price of an item rises there are more people willing to produce the item. Since a higher price means more profit for the producer and as the price rises more people will be willing to produce the item when they see that there is more money to be earned. Meanwhile the Law of Demand states that when the price of an item goes down, the demand for it will go up. When the price drops people who could not afford the item can now buy it, and people who are not willing to buy it before will now buy it at the lower price as well. Also, if the price of an item drops enough people will buy more of the product and even find alternative uses for the product.
As the supply curve moves in the automobile industry, the equilibrium price and quantity sold will change with this shift. When the automobile manufacturers see this shift in supply, they will then raise their prices and the quantity sold will fall. Car manufacturers will also develop...
Because when the price of cars is so high, people will buy less cars. However, when the price of cars is low, people will buy more cars than before. According to the diagram,when the price of cars is 30,000, the quantity of cars are five. In addition, when the price of cars is 20,000, the quantity od cars are ten. So we can know clearly that the demand curve is sloping down.
...ises. Therefore, In the case of competing with another student on the market of ice-cream, it is clear that the price of ice-cream on our campus will falls from 1.50 to the new price and the quantity of ice-cream available will rises while the level of demand will stay unchanged.