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Price elasticities are negative except in special cases. If a good is said to have an elasticity of 2, it almost always means that the good has an elasticity of −2 according to the formal definition. The phrase "more elastic" means that a good's elasticity has greater magnitude, ignoring the sign.
The most commonly used elasticity in economics, the price elasticity of demand, is almost always negative, but many goods have positive income elasticities, many have negative. A negative income elasticity of demand is associated with inferior goods; an increase in income will lead to a fall in the quantity demanded.
A horizontal demand curve is perfectly elastic. If there are n identical firms in the market then the elasticity of demand PED facing any one firm is PED mi = nPED m - (n - 1) PES. where PED m is the market elasticity of demand, PES is the elasticity of supply of each of the other firms, and (n -1) is the number of other firms. This formula ...
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Cake is always preferable to bread. At present, the consumer would purchase 2 loaves of bread and one cake, completely exhausting their budget to fill 3 meals each day. Now, if the price of bread were to rise from $1 to $2, then the consumer would have no choice but to give up cake, and spend their entire budget on 3 loaves of bread, in order ...
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The ratio / is always greater than 1 and the higher the / ratio, the more market power the firm possesses. As PED increases in magnitude, the P / M C {\displaystyle P/MC} ratio approaches 1 and market power approaches zero.