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  2. 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 ...

  3. Supply (economics) - Wikipedia

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    An example of a nonlinear supply curve. In economics, supply is the amount of a resource that firms, producers, labourers, providers of financial assets, or other economic agents are willing and able to provide to the marketplace or to an individual. Supply can be in produced goods, labour time, raw materials, or any other scarce or valuable ...

  4. Demand curve - Wikipedia

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    Movement "along the demand curve" refers to how the quantity demanded changes when the price changes. Shift of the demand curve as a whole occurs when a factor other than price causes the price curve itself to translate along the x-axis; this may be associated with an advertising campaign or perceived change in the quality of the good. [3]

  5. Economic graph - Wikipedia

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    A common and specific example is the supply-and-demand graph shown at right. This graph shows supply and demand as opposing curves, and the intersection between those curves determines the equilibrium price. An alteration of either supply or demand is shown by displacing the curve to either the left (a decrease in quantity demanded or supplied ...

  6. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    A change in quantity demanded is represented by a movement along the demand curve, while a change in demand is represented by a shift of the demand curve. [12] In popular usage a change in "demand" can refer to either what economists call a change in demand or what economists call a change in quantity demanded.

  7. Law of supply - Wikipedia

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    A supply is a good or service that producers are willing to provide. The law of supply determines the quantity of supply at a given price. [5]The law of supply and demand states that, for a given product, if the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied, then the price increases, which decreases the demand (law of demand) and increases the supply (law of supply)—and vice versa—until ...

  8. Price mechanism - Wikipedia

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    Under a price mechanism, if demand increases, prices will rise, causing a movement along the supply curve. [4] For example: the oil crisis of the 1970s drove oil prices dramatically upwards, which in turn caused several countries to begin producing oil domestically. A price mechanism affects every economic situation in the long term.

  9. Price elasticity of supply - Wikipedia

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    Relatively elastic supply: This is when the E s formula gives a result above one, meaning that when there is a change in price, the percentage change in supply is higher than the percentage change in price. Using the above example to show an elastic supply, when there is a 10% increase in price there will be more than a 10% increase in supply.