Demand and Supply
Demand
customers willingness and ability to buy a good
Determinants
Price (P)
Price substitute (Ps)
Price complimentary (Pc)
Income (Y)
Taste (T)
Population (Pop)
Advertising (A)
Relationships
When price increases
Demand decreases
Supply
Shifts and movement on curves.
Shift/movement
Left is bad
right is good
Shift
Due to change in all or any other factors bar price
Movement
Due to change in prices
Subtopic
Determinants
Price.
Cost of production.
Selling price of goods that producer could switch their production to.
Technology breakthrough
Government taxes
Unplanned events
Suppliers
Provide the good or materials to create the good to keep up with the consumer demand and to be sold on to the consumer
Equilibrium
What is this?
The price at which quantity demand by consumers equals the quantity supplied by producers.
Price mechanism
This changes the equilibrium as different factors eg price, advertising, population changes.