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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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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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