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 IX. Cross elasticity of demand is the % change in quantity demanded divided by the % change in the price of a substitute or complement. 
         A. Cross elasticity is positive for goods that are substitutes (price of hot dogs up, quantity of hamburger sold up).
         B. It is negative for goods that are complements (price of hot dogs up, quantity of hot dog rolls sold down).
         C Near zero for independent goods (peanuts and grapefruit)
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XI. Price elasticity of supply is the % change in quantity supplied divided by the % change in price. 

                                         
       A. It is a function of how factor costs change as more is produced and the passage of time. 
       B. If costs (factor prices such as wages and rent) change little as more is offered for sale at higher selling prices
            then profit potential is high and supply will be elastic. 
      C. Supply elasticity also increases with time as companies have more time to adjust to higher costs. 
           1. Unusually high demand for tomato's or the Chrysler PT Cruiser take time to produce and supply is inelastic.
           2. Gateway may be able to increase the number of a new popular model computer quickly and supply is more elastic.
      D. Gold production is costly and takes time so price is volatile because of frequent demand changes.
      E. Selected supply elasticities
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XIII. Economic Surplus of consumers and producers is explored in the next chapter.

PEDs, in combination with price elasticity of supply (PES), can be used to assess where the incidence (or "burden") of a per-unit tax is falling or to predict where it will fall if the tax is imposed. For example, when demand is perfectly inelastic, by definition consumers have no alternative to purchasing the good or service if the price increases, so the quantity demanded would remain constant. Hence, suppliers can increase the price by the full amount of the tax, and the consumer would end up paying the entirety. In the opposite case, when demand is perfectly elastic, by definition consumers have an infinite ability to switch to alternatives if the price increases, so they would stop buying the good or service in question completely—quantity demanded would fall to zero. As a result, firms cannot pass on any part of the tax by raising prices, so they would be forced to pay all of it themselves.^[38]

In practice, demand is likely to be only relatively elastic or relatively inelastic, that is, somewhere between the extreme cases of perfect elasticity or inelasticity. More generally, then, the higher the elasticity of demand compared to PES, the heavier the burden on producers; conversely, the more inelastic the demand compared to PES, the heavier the burden on consumers. The general principle is that the party (i.e., consumers or producers) that has fewer opportunities to avoid the ta

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This chapter and chapters to follow will provide the knowledge needed to determine why college graduate salaries are dropping
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