Zusammenfassung der Ressource
IB 1 Economics Unit 4 to 6
- Market Failure
(Externalities)
- Tax solution
- Positive externalities
- Negative externality
- Advertisement
- Positive
- Negative
- Legislation
- Positive
- Negative
- Government intervention
- Minimum Price
- No Equilibrium, it is distorted. Supply greater than Demand
- No equilibrium. Reduced producer surplus. Triangle equilibrium Qeq with Peq
- Waste v self sufficiency, produce on larger scale, average cost per unit
reduces. Economy of scale prove, is this economic development?
- Maximum Price
- Distorts equilibrium, D is greater than S
- C & P surplus much reduced due to black
market, represented by the
- Less people have access to the resources, reduction of
consumer surplus. Government didn't archive its main object,
fewer people access to the house. Decrease of quality of life
- 3 factor
- Consumer
- Producer
- Government
- Elasticities
- PED = %∆QD / %∆P
- YED = %∆QD / %∆Y
- PES = %∆QS / %∆P
- XED = %∆QD(Corp A) /
%∆P (Corp B)
- Determinants of PED
- Numbers of substitudes
- Proportion of income (Y)
- Luxury or necessity
- Addictive or not
- Time to responde
- Examples:
- New Kitchen: Elastic,
- - Luxurious, highly
influenced by income
- - Not addictive
- - Many subsidies
- Fruits: Inelastic
- Necessity
- Lack of substitudes
- Impacts of elasticities for stakeholders
- Consumer
- Inelastic
- P∆% more than Qd
- Might be put off by big prices, result in price instability.
- Y is inelastic, Y increases, demand unaffected.
- Elastic
- More competition. Increased R&D better quality and lower price.
- %D more than %P
- Conclusion
- Secondary products offer more
choices to consumers, more price
stability, consumers can plan how to
use their income.
- Governmnet
- Elastic
- Stable price and advance in
technology, competitiveness
advantage
- Inelastic
- Price instability: limited
growth in development, lower
standards of living.
- Higher tax revenue
- Conclusion
- A price elasticity, competitivity. This is why
LEDC (Less developed country) are
encouraged to diversify their primary
commodity.
- Producer
- Elastic
- Substitutes drive Price and Profit down.
- Easier to supply, better efficiency
- Can share stocks incase of shortage can easy
respond to increase in D easily
- Inelastic
- Price instability: difficult to plan ahead
- Quantity D Limited, Y (profit) inelastic
- Conclusion
- Elastic. More price stability, quality product,
can become very rich, make lots of
profit
- Price instability (Most in primary goods)
- Demand inelastic, large effect on price.
- Higher:
Increase in
consumer
burden
- Lower:
Lower TR on
producers
- Primary Inelastic - eg:
Pineapples in philippines
- Explanation: No specific
substitutes for pineapple,
price inelastic
- Effect on revenue: Revenue
increase because supply
decrease. Long term,
producer will react by supply
increase in pineapple will
increase because price will
go up.
- In the end, Total
revenue will go
down because of
extra supply.
inefficiency of
resources. (Use
PPF graph)
- Secondary, Elastic - eg: iPhone
- Explanation: Many
others substitutes,
and new, better
technology. Latest
iPhone quickly
outdated.
- Effects on revenue: Apple
will decrease price to
increase total revenue. Price
is elastic. Price goes down,
Quantity demanded goes up,
Total revenue goes up.
- YED: Since iPhone is elastic
product, if Y increases, D will
increase, result in higher revenue
when demand curve shifts to right.
Will significantly influence quality
of life.