Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Unit 1:Excess Demand & Excess Supply 1/20/17

Excess Demand:
Quantity demanded is greater than quantity supply (QD>QS), shortage.
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Shortage: Consumers cant get the quantities of items they desire.
Price Ceiling: Occurs when the government put a legal limit on how high the price of a product can be.
Ex: Rent Control



Equilibrium:
The point at which the supply curve and the demand curve intersect.
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Excess Supply:
Quantity supply is greater than quantity demanded (QS>QD), creates a surplus.
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Surplus: producers have inventories they cannot get rid of.
Price Floor: Lowest legal price a commodity can be sold at. Used by the government to prevent prices from becoming too low.
Ex: minimum wage




Business Cycles:


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  1. Expansion
  2. Peak
  3. Contraction/Recession
  4. Trough
  • 1 cycle is from trough to trough
  • Average cycle is 5 to 7 yrs
  • Recessions last about 14 months
  • Peaks & troughs are meaningless because we never know we are in one until it's over.
  • Trough means the end of recession
  • If a recession loses more than 10% of real GDP, then it's a depression.



1 comment:

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