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  2. Indifference curve - Wikipedia

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    A price-budget-line change that kept a consumer in equilibrium on the same indifference curve: in Fig. 1 would reduce quantity demanded of a good smoothly as price rose relatively for that good. in Fig. 2 would have either no effect on quantity demanded of either good (at one end of the budget constraint ) or would change quantity demanded from ...

  3. Consumption (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Consumer assets and wealth: These refer to assets in the form of cash, bank deposits, securities, as well as physical assets such as stocks of durable goods or real estate such as houses, land, etc. These factors can affect consumption; if the mentioned assets are sufficiently liquid, they will remain in reserve and can be used in emergencies.

  4. Economic equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    In most simple microeconomic stories of supply and demand a static equilibrium is observed in a market; however, economic equilibrium can be also dynamic. Equilibrium may also be economy-wide or general, as opposed to the partial equilibrium of a single market. Equilibrium can change if there is a change in demand or supply conditions.

  5. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where the quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied ...

  6. Substitution effect - Wikipedia

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    The overall effect of the price change is that the consumer now chooses the consumption bundle at point C. But the move from A to C can be decomposed into two parts. The substitution effect is the change that would occur if the consumer were required to remain on the original indifference curve; this is the move from A to B. The income effect ...

  7. Local nonsatiation - Wikipedia

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    Local nonsatiation (LNS [2]) is often applied in consumer theory, a branch of microeconomics, as an important property often assumed in theorems and propositions.Consumer theory is a study of how individuals make decisions and spend their money based on their preferences and budget.

  8. Utility maximization problem - Wikipedia

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    Utility maximization is an important concept in consumer theory as it shows how consumers decide to allocate their income. Because consumers are modelled as being rational , they seek to extract the most benefit for themselves.

  9. Ordinal utility - Wikipedia

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    It can be shown that consumer analysis with indifference curves (an ordinal approach) gives the same results as that based on cardinal utility theory — i.e., consumers will consume at the point where the marginal rate of substitution between any two goods equals the ratio of the prices of those goods (the equi-marginal principle).