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668568294cross-price elasticity of demandthe percentage change in quantity demanded of one good divided by the percentage change in the price of another good.0
668568295elasticrefers to a market for a product or service that is price sensitive; that is, relatively small changes in price will generate fairly large changes in the quantity demanded1
668568296income elasticity of demanda measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in consumers' income2
668568297inelasticdescribes demand that is not very sensitive to a change in price.3
668568298perfectly elastic demandthe case where the quantity demanded is infinitely responsive to price, and the price elasticity of demand equals infinity.4
668568299perfectly elastic supplywhen the quantity supplied changes by a very large percentage in response to an almost zero percentage change in price5
668568300perfectly inelastic demandthe case where the quantity demanded is completely unresponsive to price, and the price elasticity of demand equals zero.6
668568301perfectly inelastic supplythe case in which the price elasticity of supply is zero, so that changes in the price of the good have no effect on the quantity supplied; the perfectly inelastic supply curve is a vertical line.7
668568302price elasticity of demandthe percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price8
668568303price elasticity of supplythe responsiveness of the quantity supplied to a change in price, measured by dividing the percentage change in the quantity supplied of a product by the percentage change in the product's price9
668568304total expenditureequal to the sum of revenue received by firms or sum of spending by households10
668568305total revenueThe total amount of money a firm receives by selling goods or services11
668568306unit elasticelasticity where a change in the independent variable (usually price) generates a proportional change of the dependent variable (quantity demanded or supplied)12

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