Microeconomics (9th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics)
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Author: Robert Pindyck, Daniel Rubinfeld
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Chapter 2, Problem 9E
In Example 2.8 (page 52), we discussed the recent decline in world
- a. Using the original
elasticities of demand and supply (i.e., ES = 1.5 and ED = −0.5), calculate the effect of a 20-percent increase in copper demand on the price of copper. - b. Now calculate the effect of this increase in demand on the equilibrium quantity, Q*.
- c. As we discussed in Example 2.8, the U.S. production of copper declined between 2000 and 2003. Calculate the effect on the
equilibrium price and quantity of both a 20-percent increase in copper demand (as you just did in part a) and of a 20-percent decline in copper supply.
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Microeconomics (9th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics)
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