A | B |
Complements | Products that tend to be used together |
Curve shifts right | Response of demand curve to an increase in demand |
Curve shifts left | Response of demand curve to a decrease in demand |
Decrease the price of product | Results in a change in the quantity demanded |
Demand | The desire, ability, and willingness to buy a product |
Demand curve | Graph showing the quantity demanded at each and every price at a given time |
Demand elasticity | The extent to which a change in price causes a change in the quantity demanded |
Diminishing marginal utility | The decrease in satisfaction or usefulness received from each additional unit of a product |
Diminishing marginal utility | Buying only one instead of two candy bars |
Elastic demand | When a change in price causes a large change in demand |
Elastic demand | Stereo equipment has this type of demand |
Elasticity | A measure of how sensitive consumers are to price changes |
Income effect | A change in quantity demanded due to people having more to spend |
Increase the price of product | Would result in a change in the quantity demanded |
Inelastic demand | When a change in price causes a small change in demand |
Inelastic demand | Price decreases 10%, company's revenues fall more than 10% |
Inelastic demand | A physician's services |
Inelastic demand | Prescription drugs |
Law of Demand | More will be purchased at low prices than high prices |
Marginal utility | The extra usefulness a person gets from one more unit of a product |
Microeconomics | Area of economics that deals with behavior of small units |
Price | Stays the same if a change in demand |
Substitutes | Products that can be used in place of other products |
Substitution effect | A change in quantity demanded due to people substituting one product for another |
Total expenditures | Determined by multiplying the price of a product by quantity demanded |
Unit elastic | When a change in price causes a proportional change in demand |