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GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION: Actions on the part of government that affect economic activity, resource allocation, and especially the voluntary decisions made through normal market exchanges. Government, by its very nature, is designed to intervene in voluntary market activity. Some of the more common types of government intervention includes taxes, price controls, assorted regulations, and control over government spending. The general justification for government intervention is that voluntary decisions by consumers and businesses fail to achieve efficiency or other goals deemed important by society.
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Lesson 11: Elasticity Basics | Unit 3: Measurement
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Doing The Numbers: Endpoint
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- Our task is to calculated the price elasticity of demand using the endpoint formula. I am presenting the endpoint formula for reference.
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elasticity | = | (Q2 - Q1)
Q1 | ÷ | (P2 - P1)
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- Suppose the values for this formula are P1 = $2.49, Q1 = 5,447 unit of a given good (say Tacos), P2 = $1.99, Q2 = 6,608 units of Tacos
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elasticity | = | 0.21 ÷ - 0.20 | = | - 1.05 |
- This value - 1.05 indicates that the a one percent decline in the price of Tacos results in a 1.05 percent increase in quantity demanded.
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PERFECT COMPETITION, LOSS MINIMIZATION A perfectly competitive firm is presumed to produce the quantity of output that minimizes economic losses, if price is greater than average variable cost but less than average total cost. This is one of three short-run production alternatives facing a firm. The other two are profit maximization (if price exceeds average total cost) and shutdown (if price is less than average variable cost).
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