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FIXED STRUCTURES: One of three types of capital goods purchased with investment expenditures. Fixed structures include buildings, factories, and other capital goods that are essentially fixed to the ground. The other types of capital are equipment and inventories.
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Lesson 8: Market Shocks | Unit 4: Double Shifts
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More Demand and Less Supply
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Here we have demand increasing (higher income) and supply decreasing (number of sellers declines).- An increase in demand causes an increase in both price and quantity.
- A decrease supply causes price to increase and quantity to decrease.
- The combined effect is an obvious increase in price but a questionable change in quantity.
- At the new equilibrium the quantity is indeterminant.
- If demand shifts relatively more than supply, quantity is greater.
- If demand shifts relatively less than supply, quantity is less.
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PERFECT COMPETITION, CHARACTERISTICS The four key characteristics of perfect competition are: (1) a large number of small firms, (2) identical products sold by all firms, (3) perfect resource mobility or the freedom of entry into and exit out of the industry, and (4) perfect knowledge of prices and technology.
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." -- Rita Mae Brown ‚ Writer
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CES Constant Elasticity of Substitution
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