ECO100Y5 Chapter 3: ECO100 - Microeconomics Chapter 3 Textbook Notes

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Shows how much of the product consumers want to buy. Increase in demand shifts the demand curve to the right. Decrease in demand shifts the demand curve to the left. Causes to a demand curve shift: changes in the price of related goods (substitutes and complements, changes in income (normal and inferior goods, changes in tastes, changes s expectations, changes in the number of consumers. The market demand curve is a horizontal sum of individual demand curves within the market. Shows graphically how much of a good or service people are willing to sell at any given price. Decrease in supply shifts supply curve left. Increase in supply shifts supply curve right. Causes to a supply curve shift: changes in input prices, changes in the prices of related goods/services, changes in weather. Friday, april 1, 2016: changes in technology, changes in expectations, changes in the number of producers. Occurs when price is above equilibrium price.

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Please review the following work and correct me if I have mixed up the concepts of movements and shifts of supply and demand curves. Feel free to copy and edit/correct my mistakes. I'll be waiting. Thanks in advance!!

Changes in price dictate movements along demand curves. When a decrease in demand or the quality demanded occurs it's a safe bet that it's correlated to a price increase, which in turn leads to a resultant surplus of that particular commodity in the marketplace. This is because decreased demand means less of that commodity being sold. On the other hand, a price decrease usually leads to an increase in the demand for a particular commodity, or an increase in sales, which in turn leads to a shortage of that commodity in the marketplace.

To shift the demand curve itself, changes need to occur in other aspects of the market beyond simply a change in the price of a commodity. For example, an increase in income means the consumers have more disposable income. With more disposable income, demand for commodities will increase, and results in a shift of the demand curve itself. In this example, the demand curve would shift right. On the opposite side of the coin, cost increases due to production or losses in efficiency may decrease the side of supply, shifting the demand curve to the left.

Analogous to shifts in the demand curve, shifts along a supply curve occur when prices change as well. When the cost to produce a commodity increases, supply drops, and the supply curve shifts to the left. If the cost of production drops, and supply increases, the supply curve shifts to the right as demand develops.

Pharmaceutical supply and demand is an easy way to understand these concepts.

Drug demand increases: Price decreases, supplies decrease.

Drug demand decreases: Price increases, supplies increase.

Drug supply increases: Production costs drop, demand drops.

Drug supply decreases: Production costs increase, demand increases.

"But where and how do movements and shifts occur in the above?"

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Question 1:-
If new manufacturers enter the computer industry, the [a] curve will [b] to the [c].
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Question 2:-
Andy views beer and pizza as complements to one another. If the price of pizza decreases, economists would expect Andy's demand for [a] to [b].
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Question 3:-

Various factors cause the demand curve to shift. These can include:

	A.	change in income
	B.	changes in the number of buyers
	C.	changes in future expectations
	D.	all of the above.

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Question 4:-

A drought decreases the supply of agricultural products, which means that at any given price a lower quantity will be supplied; conversely, especially good weather would shift the .

	A.	demand curve to the right
	B.	supply curve to the right
	C.	supply curve to the left
	D.	demand curve to the left

(1) If a demand curve shifts to the left, then:
a) price would go up and quantity would go down
b) price would go down and quantity would go up
c) a lower price and quantity would result
d) a higher price and quantity would result

(2) Demand and supply curves are drawn assuming ceterisparibus.This means that:
a) economists ignore all assumptions
b) economists don't watch for the fallacy of false cause
c) changes will be proportional
d) all other things besides price and quantity are unchanged

(3) If steak and potatoes are complements, when the price ofsteakgoes up, the demand curve for potatoes:
a) shifts to the right
b) shifts to the left
c) stays the same
d) shifts to the right and then moves back

(4) Given that chicken and beef are substitute goods, if thepriceof chicken decreases substantially, there would be:
a) an increase in the demand for beef
b) a decrease in the demand for beef
c) a decrease in the quantity for beef demanded
d) no change in the demand for beef

(5) Every day for the past two years you've had ham and cheese onawhole wheat bagel for lunch at Bungalow Bob's BagelBoutique.However, the price of whole wheat bagels has risen by 10cents sotoday you decide to have ham and cheese on rye bagel. Inthis case,whole wheat and rye bagels are best considered:

a) superior goods
b) normal goods
c) substitute goods
d) complementary goods

(6) For most goods, purchases tend to rise with increases inbuyers'incomes and to fall with decreases in buyers' incomes. Suchgoodsare known as:

a) inferior goods
b) direct goods
c) normal goods
d) luxury goods

(7) Economists know that a particular good can be classified asaninferior good if a(n)______ increase in buyers' incomecausesa(n)_____

a) increase; increase in demand
b) increase; increase in quantity demanded
c) increase; decrease in demand
d) decrease; decrease in demand

(8) An increase in the demand for medical services caused byanincrease in the number of people 65 is most likely attributabletowhich demand shifter?

a) income
b) consumer preferences
c) prices of other goods
d) demographic characteristics

(9) Which of the following would shift the demand curve fornewtextbooks to the right?

a) a decrease in the price of paper
b) a fall in the price of used textbooks
c) an increase in college enrollments
d) a fall in the price of new textbooks

(10) How a supply curve is sloped and located depends on:

a) technology
b) resources prices
c) the number of producers or sellers
d) all of the above

(11) A decrease in supply means:

a) a shift to the left of the entire supply curve
b) moving downward (to the left) along the supply curve withlowerprices
c) less will be demanded at every price
d) more will be supplied at every price

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