Chapter 5 - Elasticity and its Application

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behavior of buyers

Other elasticities are used to describe the ________ in a market.

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US government

The ________ has spent billions of dollars each year to discourage the use of illegal drugs.

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Demand

________ is considered elastic when the elasticity is greater than 1.

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Elasticity

________- a measure of the responsiveness of quantity demanded or quantity supplied to a change in one of its determinants.

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supply of oil

When the ________ falls, the response depends on the time horizon.

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Drug interdiction

________ could increase drug- related crime.

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Total revenue

________- the amount paid by buyers and received by sellers of a good, computed as the price elasticity of demand rise of the good times the quantity sold.

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Oil

________ was the cause of the most disruptive events in the worlds economy.

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US government

The ________ has spent billions of dollars each year to discourage the use of illegal drugs.

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