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Subject: economics
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: jlea427-ga
List Price: $11.00
Posted: 10 May 2003 11:38 PDT
Expires: 09 Jun 2003 11:38 PDT
Question ID: 202039
can you demonstrate graphically and explain verbally the impact on
price and quantity when supply decreases and demand is highly elastic.
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Subject: Re: economics
Answered By: chis-ga on 10 May 2003 12:13 PDT
 
Hello jlea427,

When demand is highly elastic, it will be a relatively horizontal
curve.  Therefore, on a Supply and Demand graph, when demand is highly
elastic, supply changes will result in  large changes in the
equilibrium quantity and small changes in the equilibrium price.  This
means that a decrease in supply will result in a small increase in the
equilibrium price and a large decrease in the equilibrium quantity.

http://www.sparknotes.com/economics/micro/elasticity/section1.html
gives this information, and figure 1.6 on this page is the graph that
you're looking for.  The shift that you have described is from curve
S_2 to curve S_1.

Let me know if you need any additional information.

-chis
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