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Price elasticity of demand (PED) is defined as the responsiveness of the quantity demanded of a good or service to a change in its price. In other words, it is percentage change of quantity demanded by the percentage change in price of the same commodity. In economics and business studies, the price elasticity of demand is a measure of the sensitivity of quantity demanded to changes in price. It is measured as elasticity, that is it measures the relationship as the ratio of percentage changes between quantity demanded of a good and changes in its price. Price elasticity is almost always negative, although analysts tend to ignore the sign. Only goods which do not conform the law of demand, such as Veblen and Giffen goods, have a positive PED. In simpler words: demand for a product can be said to be very inelastic if consumers will pay almost any price for the product, while demand for a product may be elastic if consumers will only pay a certain price, or a narrow range of prices, for the product. Inelastic demand means a producer can raise prices without much hurting demand for its product, and elastic demand means that consumers are sensitive to the price at which a product is sold and will not buy it if the price rises by what they consider too much. Drinking water is a good example of a good that has inelastic characteristics - in that people will pay anything for it. On the other hand, demand for sugar is very elastic because as the price of sugar increases there are many substitute goods which consumers may switch to. Various research methods are used to calculate price elasticity, including test markets, analysis of historical sales data and conjoint analysis. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License True or False: The value of the price elasticity of demand is equal to the slope of the demand curve.? Q. Aplia homework question! True of False: The value of the price elasticity of demand is equal to the slope of the demand curve. I think this is false because when the demand curve is straight and hence has the same slope, the price elasticity value can be different. Asked by mikekennedy341 - Mon Sep 22 00:46:13 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. false and bullshyte Answered by mel - Mon Sep 22 00:54:24 2008 In relation to Price elasticity of demand what is unitary elastic? Q. Can you explain it to me in simple terms and maybe give me an example? Thanks! Asked by Sarah O - Sun Feb 8 08:56:00 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments A. Unitary elasticity is when price elasticity is equal to 1 (on the nose). If some is greater than one [>1] it is said to be elastic, less than one [<1 ] it is said to be inelastic. Answered by axesenzon - Sun Feb 8 09:40:35 2009 Can a change in total revenue be predicted using price elasticity demand?
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