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  2. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  3. Constant elasticity of substitution - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the production technology has a constant percentage change in factor (e.g. labour and capital) proportions due to a percentage change in marginal rate of technical substitution. The two factor (capital, labor) CES production function introduced by Solow, [2] and later made popular by Arrow, Chenery, Minhas, and Solow is: [3] [4 ...

  4. Cross elasticity of demand - Wikipedia

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    Cross elasticity of demand of product B with respect to product A (η BA): = / / = > implies two goods are substitutes.Consumers purchase more B when the price of A increases. Example: the cross elasticity of demand of butter with respect to margarine is 0.81, so 1% increase in the price of margarine will increase the demand for butter by 0.81

  5. Elasticity of substitution - Wikipedia

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    Elasticity of substitution is the ratio of percentage change in capital-labour ratio with the percentage change in Marginal Rate of Technical Substitution. [1] In a competitive market, it measures the percentage change in the two inputs used in response to a percentage change in their prices. [2]

  6. Substitute good - Wikipedia

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    Only if the two products satisfy the three conditions, will they be classified as close substitutes according to economic theory. The opposite of a substitute good is a complementary good, these are goods that are dependent on another. An example of complementary goods are cereal and milk. An example of substitute goods are tea and coffee.

  7. List of business and finance abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    K – Is used as an abbreviation for 1,000. For example, $225K would be understood to mean $225,000, and $3.6K would be understood to mean $3,600. Multiple K's are not commonly used to represent larger numbers. In other words, it would look odd to use $1.2KK to represent $1,200,000. Ke – Is used as an

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Faith-based and 12-step programs, despite the fact that they had little experience with drug addicts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” The number of drug treatment facilities boomed with federal funding and the steady expansion of private insurance coverage for addiction, going from a mere handful in the 1950s to thousands a few decades later.

  9. Gross substitutes (indivisible items) - Wikipedia

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    The original GS definition [1] is based on a price vector and a demand set. A price vector p {\displaystyle p} is a vector containing a price for each item. Given a utility function u {\displaystyle u} and a price vector p {\displaystyle p} , a set X {\displaystyle X} is called a demand if it maximizes the net utility of the agent: u ( X ) − ...