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Complementary goods exhibit a negative cross elasticity of demand: as the price of goods Y rises, the demand for good X falls. In economics, a complementary good is a good whose appeal increases with the popularity of its complement. [further explanation needed] Technically, it displays a negative cross elasticity of demand and that demand for ...
Substitute good. In microeconomics, substitute goods are two goods that can be used for the same purpose by consumers. [1] That is, a consumer perceives both goods as similar or comparable, so that having more of one good causes the consumer to desire less of the other good. Contrary to complementary goods and independent goods, substitute ...
Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where ...
Razor and blades model. A razor with its attached blade. With the razor and blades model, the razor would be inexpensive but the blades would come at a significant cost. The razor and blades business model[1] is a business model in which one item is sold at a low price (or given away) in order to increase sales of a complementary good, such as ...
Substitution effect. In economics and particularly in consumer choice theory, the substitution effect is one component of the effect of a change in the price of a good upon the amount of that good demanded by a consumer, the other being the income effect. When a good's price decreases, if hypothetically the same consumption bundle were to be ...
Goods are capable of being physically delivered to a consumer. Goods that are economic intangibles can only be stored, delivered, and consumed by means of media. Goods, both tangibles and intangibles, may involve the transfer of product ownership to the consumer. Services do not normally involve transfer of ownership of the service itself, but ...
The term gross substitutes is used in two slightly different meanings: I.e., an increase in the price of one commodity causes people to want strictly more of the other commodity, since the commodities can substitute each other (bus and taxi are a common example). I.e., the definition includes both substitute goods and independent goods, and ...
Lists. Business portal. Money portal. v. t. e. In economics, demand is the quantity of a good that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various prices during a given time. [1][2] In economics "demand" for a commodity is not the same thing as "desire" for it. It refers to both the desire to purchase and the ability to pay for a commodity.