Price Fixing
Supply and Demand
Market Structure
Determinants
Misc
100

A price ceiling would be used by the government if...

The price for a good people needed was too high to be affordable.

100

The Quantity at which supply and demand intersect on this graph is referred to as this.

Equilibirum Quantity

100

A business with one owner would be a...

Sole Proprietorship

100

List the five determinants of demand

Tastes

Related goods

Incomes of consumers

Number of Buyers

Expectations of Prices

100

The law of demand states

That as price rises quantity demanded falls and vice versa

200

Shortage occurs when

Demand is greater than supply, or a price ceiling is put below equilibrium

200

This is a change in the supply curve which is caused by an increase in price.


Increased Quantity Supplied

200

This market structure has one firm in complete control of the market

monopoly

200

This occurs to the supply curve if new taxes are placed upon a business

It shifts left

200

This business structure can make money by selling shares or "stock" in a company

Corporation

300

Surplus occurs when

Supply is greater than demand, or a price floor is put above equalibirum

300

This occurs when the demand curve itself moves left to a new location on the graph.


Decrease in overall demand

300

This is the amount of control businesses have over prices in a Pure Competition market.

None, they are price takers

300

This occurs to the supply curve if more suppliers enter the market.

The curve will shift to the right

300

List in order the structures of markets from LEAST to MOST amount of firms in the market

Monopoly, Oligarchy, Monopolistic Competition, Pure Competition

400

This is what line PC represents, also state what occurs as a result of setting price here.

A price ceiling, and a shortage

400

Quanity Supplied would be described as this

The amount supplied by a business at a specific price

400

In this Market Structure products are made competitive due to changes in branding or quality

Monopolistic Competition

400

A decrease in the tax placed upon gasoline cars will cause this.

What is an increase in Supply.

400

The price at which supply and demand intersect on this graph is referred to as this.

Equilibirum Price

500

This is what line PF on the above graph represents, also this would occur if we set the price to that level.

Price Floor, and Surplus

500

If the supply curve moves to the right what has taken place?


The Overall supply of the good has increased

500

This market structure occurs when a small group of companies control the market for a good or service

Oligopoly

500

This occurs to the demand curve of Nike shoes if people's tastes change to want more Nike products.

It will shift to the right

500

Name one business structure with limited life and one with unlimited

Sole Proprietorship/Partnership

Corporation

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