Economics (AS)·Income & cross elasticity of demand · NSSCAS 2.2b
Income & cross elasticity of demand
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Last lesson we measured how demand responds to a good's own price. But income moves demand too, and so do the prices of other goods. In this lesson we add two more elasticities to your toolkit — income elasticity (YED) and cross elasticity (XED) — calculating each, reading the all-important sign and size, and using them to tell normal from inferior goods and substitutes from complements. We finish with how real Namibian businesses use both to forecast and to price.
What you'll learn in this lesson
By the end you should be able to (NSSCAS Economics (AS) 2.2b):
- Explain the meaning and perform calculation of income elasticity of demand
- Explain the meaning and perform calculation of cross elasticity of demand
- Evaluate the implications for revenue and business decisions of income and cross-elasticities of demand
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