ECO 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Demand Curve, Midpoint Method, Horse Length
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To measure how much consumers respond to changes in these variables, economists use the concept of elasticity. Elasticity: a measure of the responsiveness(cid:523) (cid:524) of quantity demanded or quantity supplied to one of its determinant. Price elasticity(cid:523) (cid:524) of demand: a measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in the price of that good. Example: suppose a (cid:883)(cid:882)% increase in the price of an ice-cream cone causes the amount of ice cream you buy to fall by (cid:884)(cid:882)%. The elasticity is (cid:884) means that the change in the quantity demanded is proportionately twice as large as the change in the price. )f you want calculate the price elasticity of demand between two points on a demand curve. The elasticity from point a to point b seems different from the elasticity from point b to point a.