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Lesson 11: Elasticity Basics | Unit 1: The Concept Page: 2 of 25

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  • The elasticity definition goes something like this...

  • Elasticity is the relative response of one variable to changes in another variable.
  • The phrase "relative response" is best interpreted as "percentage change."

  • In other words, elasticity is a measure of the percentage change in one variable relative to the percentage change in another variable.

  • The two most important variables that we are concerned with are price and quantity.

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GROSS PRIVATE DOMESTIC INVESTMENT

This is the official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economics Analysis measuring capital investment expenditures. Gross private domestic investment is expenditures on capital goods to be used for productive activities in the domestic economy that are undertaken by the business sector during a given time period. These expenditures tend to be the least stable of the four expenditures, averaging between 12-18 percent of gross domestic product. This percentage tends to be at the low end during business-cycle contractions and at the high end during business-cycle expansions. The other official expenditures included in the National Income and Product Accounts are personal consumption expenditures, government consumption expenditures and gross investment, and net exports of goods and services.

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