Demand
Elasticity
Cost
Price
Potpourri
100

An exogenous factor results in a change in quantity demanded at every price, it is called this.

What is a Demand Shock (or demand curve shift)

100

This is the standard mathematical formula used to calculate the price elasticity of demand.

What is % change in QD / % Change in Price

100

These costs do not change regardless of whether you produce one unit or one million units.

What are fixed costs?

100

The Total Revenue equation is this:

What is price * quantity

100

Because they have few substitutes and are "once-in-a-lifetime," post-season sports tickets typically have this type of demand.

what is inelastic?

200

This law states that, ceteris paribus, a price hike leads to a lower quantity demanded.

What is the Law of Demand?

200

If a 10% increase in price leads to a 2% drop in quantity demanded, the demand is considered this.

What is inelastic?

200

Money already spent on a movie ticket or a guaranteed athlete contract is categorized as this.

What is a sunk cost?

200

For a firm in a competitive market, profit is maximized at the quantity where market price equals this.



What is marginal cost?

200

When a team trades for a superstar, the surge in ticket inquiries despite a price hike is justified by a shift in this.

What is a change in Expectations?

300

If the price of Bud Light increases, the demand curve for Coors Light will do this.

What is "Shift right" (or shift out)

300

This type of elasticity measures how the quantity demanded of one good responds to a price change in another good.

What is cross price elasticity of demand?
300

This phenomenon occurs when an increase in an input, like labor, leads to a decline in that input's marginal product.

What is Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns?

300
From a consumer perspective, we also called demand this:

What is willingness to pay?

300

In the production of a  film, theline crew (cameramen and extras) represent this type of cost, which increases as the number of filming days grows.

What is a variable cost?

400

These are two products, like skis and ski boots, where an increase in the price of one leads to a fall in demand for the other.

What are complements?

400

This cross price elasticity tells you that 2 goods are substitutes

What is negative sign?

400

To find the Average Total Cost (ATC), you divide this figure by the total quantity produced.

Total Cost

400

The profit equation is this:

What is Total Revenue - Total Cost

400

Digital streaming services like Netflix have massive fixed costs but a marginal cost of adding one more viewer that is near this amount.

what is "near zero"?
500

When your income rises and you buy less of a specific good, that good is categorized as this.

What is an Inferior Good?

500

True or False: a given demand curve has a constant price elasticity?

False. The elasticity of a given demand curve is different at every point on the curve
500

This represents the incremental cost of producing exactly one more unit.

What is Marginal Cost?

500

An individual firm’s supply curve is derived directly from this specific cost curve.

What is the marginal cost curve?

500

When a work crew becomes over-saturated with staff, the Marginal Cost curve begins to do this.

what is "increase"?

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