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OPEN MARKET: A market, not unlike that stock market, that trades the U.S. Treasury securities that comprises the federal debt. U.S. Treasury securities are low risk and extremely secure financial instruments that are held by all sorts of investors, especially commercial banks. The Federal Reserve System is also a major holder of U.S. Treasury securities and participant in the open market. In fact, the Federal Reserve System used buying and selling of U.S. Treasury securities through the open market as a means of controlling the money, through what is appropriately termed open market operations.

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Lesson 12: Elasticity and Demand | Unit 2: The Continuum Page: 6 of 25

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  • A precise categorization separates elasticity into five alternatives along a continuum:

  • Perfectly inelastic demand results if the elasticity coefficient is 0.

  • In the range greater than 0 and less 1, demand is relatively inelastic.

  • If the coefficient is exactly equal to 1, demand is unit elastic.

  • Demand occupies the relatively elastic range of the continuum with an elasticity coefficient greater than 1 and less than infinity.

  • At the far extreme, perfectly elastic demand results if the elasticity coefficient is infinity.

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SUPPLY DECREASE

A decrease in the willingness and ability of sellers to sell a good at the existing price, illustrated by a leftward shift of the supply curve. A decrease in supply is caused by a change in a supply determinant and results in a decrease in equilibrium quantity and an increase in equilibrium price. A supply decrease is one of two supply shocks to the market. The other is a supply increase.

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