Principles of Economics (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134078779
Author: Karl E. Case, Ray C. Fair, Sharon E. Oster
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5, Problem 2.5P
For each of the following scenarios, decide whether you agree or disagree and explain your answer.
- a. If the
elasticity of demand for cocaine is -0.20 and the Drug Enforcement Administration succeeds in reducing supply substantially, causing the street price of the drug to rise by 50 percent, buyers will spend less on cocaine. - b. Every year Christmas tree vendors bring tens of thousands of trees from the forests of New England to New York City and Boston. During the last 2 years, the market has been competitive; as a result, price has fallen by 10 percent. If the price elasticity of demand was -1.3, vendors would lose revenues altogether as a result of the price decline.
- c. If the demand for a good has unitary elasticity, or elasticity is -1, it is always true that an increase in its price will lead to more revenues for sellers taken as a whole.
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