Saturday, July 28, 2018

MICRO-ECONOMICS: DETERMINANTS OF ELASTICITY

Determinants Of Elasticity Of Demands.

1.Consumer Income:

The income of a consumer may also affects the elasticity of demand. For a consumer with high income, the elasticity of demand would not affect to that extent as it effects the consumers with lower incomes.

For Ex: If the prices of oil/petroleum products goes up, it would effect largely to the consumers with lower income but would not effect that much to rich class.

2.Amount Of Money Spent:

The price of a particular product may also effect the elasticity of demand. For a product with less value, the elasticity of demand would not effect whereas with a huge value product it may effect massively.

For Ex: If price of a pen increases from Rs.8 to Rs.10 its demand may still be same, Similarly if the price of a car increases from Rs.7lakhs to Rs 9lakhs its demand might go down.

3.Price Of Substitutes.

The elasticity of demands also depends on the substitutes available in the market

For Ex; If the price of milk from a dairy is comparatively high to others, the consumer may turn to other dairy as a substitute stating that the prices are too high. Hence the demand of the first dairy may reduce.


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