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DEMAND ANALYSIS Qdx = f(Px, Y, Pabc, TH, W, E...) A household’s decision about what quantity of a particular
output, or product, to demand depends on a number of factors including:
■ The price of the product in question ■ The income available to the household ■ The household’s amount of accumulated
wealth ■ The prices of other products available to the
household ■ The household’s tastes and preferences ■ The household’s expectations about future
income, wealth, and prices
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quantity demanded The amount (number of units) of a product that a household would buy in a given period if it could buy all it wanted at the current market price.
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LAW OF DEMAND Change in Quantity Demanded
Law of demand stated by Alfred Marshall, which says a rise in price leads to contraction in demand and fall in price leads to extension in demand
Movement along the demand curve
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Change in Demand
Shift in the demand curve
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Rightward shift – Increase in demand Leftward shift- Decrease in demand
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ELASTICITY OF DEMAND
Definition of Elasticity of Demand
Types of Elasticity of demand
Kinds of Elasticity of demand
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Consumer choice
utility The satisfaction, or reward, a product yields relative to its alternatives. The basis of choice.
In other words
The want satisfying power of a commodity is called utility
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Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
law of diminishing marginal utility The more of any one good consumed in a given period, the less satisfaction (utility) generated by consuming each additional (marginal) unit of the same good.
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• marginal utility (MU) The additional satisfaction gained by the consumption or use of one more unit of something
• total utility The total amount of satisfaction obtained from consumption of a good or service.
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Total Utility and Marginal Utility of Trips
to the Club Per Week
Trips to the Club Per Week
Marginal Utility
Total Utility
1 12 12
2 10 22
3 6 28
4 4 32
5 2 34
6 0 34
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Ordinal Approach: Indifference Curves
It is set a of combination of good A and good B which
give same satisfaction to the consumer.
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Properties of Indifference Curves (ICs)
They are downward sloping and convex to the origin curves,
No two IC curves must intersect,
Higher the IC curve higher will be the level of satisfaction.
The slope of the IC is called Marginal Rate of Substitution(MRS)
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Budget Line
The budget line illustrates all the possible combinations of two goods that can be purchased at given prices and for a given consumer budget.
Money Income = P1X +P2Y
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Consumer Equilibrium
A rational, maximising consumer would prefer to be on the highest possible indifference curve given their budget constraint. This point occurs where the indifference curve touches (is tangential to) the budget line.