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Question:
Please thoroughly and completely explain the law of demand.
Answer:
o Demand is a schedule or curve that shows the various amounts
of a
product that consumers are willing and able to purchase at each
2. of a series
of possible prices during a specified period of time.
relationship between price and
quantity demanded. This is supported by the following three
concepts:
successive units of a
particular product will yield less and less marginal utility.
o Marginal utility – the change in utility that results from a one-
unit change
in the consumption of a good or service.
o The income effect - which means that a lower price increases
the
purchasing power of the buyers money income allowing the
buyer to
purchase more of the product than before.
o The substitution effect - which means that at a lower price
buyers are
motivated to substitute what is now a less expensive product for
similar
products that are now relatively more expensive.
sloping curve.
3. the demand curve to
the right while a decrease in demand is expressed as a shift of
the demand curve
to the left.
ed
as a movement alone
a given demand curve and is caused by an increase or decrease
of the price of the
product.
the determinants of
demand which are:
– a change in tastes can cause buyers to demand
more, or less of
a product
– an increase in the number of buyers will
result in an
increase in the demand for a product
–
a. If income increases and the demand for a good increases, that
good is
called a normal good.
b. If income increases and the demand for a good decreases, that
good is
called an inferior good
4. – expectations of buyers will impact demand. If
the buyer
expects the price of the product to increase, this would likely
cause a decrease
in demand for the product.
–
a. If the price of a good increases, we would expect the demand
for the
substitute good to increase.
b. If the price of a good increases, we would expect the demand
for its
complement to decrease.
-related goods – a price change for one good
would have no
impact on the demand for the other good.