10719870309 | Market | An institution or mechanism that brings together buyers and sellers of particular goods, services, or resources. An example of a market is a farmer's market. Related Terms: Supply and Demand | 0 | |
10719870310 | Demand Schedule | A table that compares the price of a product and the quantity demanded. Related Terms: Supply Schedule, Demand Curve | 1 | |
10719870311 | Law of Demand | All else equal, as price falls, the quantity demanded rises and as price rises, the quantity demanded falls. Example: If price of computers increase then people will buy less computers. Related Terms: Demand Schedule, Demand. | 2 | |
10719870312 | Demand | Schedule or curve that shows the various amounts of a product that consumers are willing and able to purchase at each of a series of possible prices during a specified period of time. Ex.) Demand shows how much of a product people will buy at various prices. Related Terms: Law of Demand, Demand Schedule | 3 | |
10719870313 | Quantity Demanded | How much of a product that people are willing to buy. Related Terms: Demand, Demand Schedule | 4 | |
10719870314 | Demand Curve | A curve that measures quantity demanded and price of a product. Related Terms: Demand, Law of Demand | 5 | |
10719870315 | Diminishing marginal utility | As one person buys more units of a product, the utility gained per additional unit is diminished. Ex.)A person buys 3 hamburgers and each additional hamburger after the first gives him less satisfaction. Related Terms: Utility, Allocative Efficiency | 6 | |
10719870316 | Income Effect | A product's lower price increases the buyer's purchasing power. Ex.)If Pepsi costs $2 then I can buy more of it than $3 cans of Coke. Related Terms: Demand, Supply | 7 | |
10719870317 | Substitution Effect | People will buy the lowest priced alternative of a similar group of products. Ex.) If Pepsi costs less than Coke, then people will buy Pepsi Related Terms: Demand, Law of Demand | 8 | |
10719870318 | Market Demand | How much an entire consumer population wants a product. Ex.) Adding up the demands of Bob, John, and Sally results in the market demand Related Terms: Demand, Demand Curve | 9 | |
10719870319 | Determinants of Demand | Factors other than price that determines the demand for a product. Ex.) the consumer's personal taste Related Terms: Demand | 10 | |
10719870320 | Inferior good | A good or service whose consumption declined as income rises, prices remain constant Ex.)Used Car, Instant Ramen | 11 | |
10719870321 | Normal Goods | Products whose demand varies directly with money income. Ex.) Old cars, ramen noodles Related Terms: Demand | 12 | |
10719870322 | Substitute Goods | Good that can be used in place of another. Ex.) Beef can be a substitute for chicken Related Terms: Demand | 13 | |
10719870323 | Complementary goods | Good that is used together with another good. Ex.) Headphones complement smart phones Related Terms: Demand, Substitutes | 14 | |
10719870324 | Change in Demand | A change in the quantity demanded of a good or service at every price shift of the demand curve | 15 | |
10719870325 | Change in Supply | A change in specifically of a good that buyers are willing and able to buy | 16 | |
10719870326 | Supply | A schedule showing the amounts of a good or service that sellers will offer at various prices during some period | 17 | |
10719870327 | Supply Schedule | A method to show the different amounts of a certain products or them that company would need to supply | 18 | |
10719870328 | Change in Quantity | A change specifically of a good that buyers are willing and able to buy | 19 | |
10719870329 | Surplus | The amount by which the quantity supplied of a product exceeds that quantity demanded at a specific price | 20 | |
10719870330 | Shortage | The amount by quantity demanded of a product exceeds the quantity supplied at the particular | 21 | |
10719870331 | Equilibrium Price | The price in competitive market at which the quantity demanded and supplied are equal there is neither a shortage nor a surplus and there is no tendency for price to rise or fall | 22 | |
10719870332 | Equilibrium Quantity | Quantity demanded and supplied at the equilibrium price in a competitive market | 23 | |
10719870333 | Rationing Function of Prices | The ability of market forces in competitive market to equalize demanded and quantity supplied and to eliminate shortages and surpluses | 24 | |
10719870334 | Price Floor | Legally determined price above the equilibrium | 25 | |
10719870335 | Price Ceiling | Legally established maximum price for a good service | 26 | |
10719870336 | Change in Quantity Supplied | A change in the specific quantity of a good that sellers are willing to sell | 27 | |
10719870337 | Determinants Supply | Factors other then price that determines the quantities supplied of a good or service Ex. Change in Weather Change in # of Buyers | 28 | |
10719870338 | Supply Curve | A curve that measures quantity supplied and price | 29 |
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