Friday, 15 December 2017

Shifting of demand and supply curves and their results.

Q. What will happen when both of the demand and supply curves are shifted/changed?


Ans.    When both of the demand and supply curves are shifted/changed there will be four exclusive situations considering negatively sloped demand curve and positively sloped supply curve in the Walrasian equilibrium framework: 


(a) Supply increases and demand increases. 

(b) Supply decreases and demand decreases. 

(c) Supply increases and demand decreases.

(d) Supply decreases and demand increases.




(a) Increase of supply and demandIncrease of supply leads to decrease of equilibrium price and increase of equilibrium quantity. Again increase of demand leads to increase of equilibrium price and quantity.

So in this case equilibrium quantity will increase. But equilibrium price can increase/remain constant/decrease according as change in demand (∆D/D) >=< change in supply (∆S/S) demand .
(b) Decrease of Supply and DemandDecrease of supply leads to increase of equilibrium price and decrease of equilibrium quantity. Again decrease of demand leads to decrease of equilibrium price and quantity.

So in this case equilibrium quantity will decrease. But equilibrium price can increase/remain constant/decrease according as absolute change in demand (∆D/D) >=< absolute change in supply (∆S/S) demand.

(c) Increase of Supply and Decrease of DemandIncrease of supply leads to decrease of equilibrium price and increase of equilibrium quantity. Again decrease of demand leads to decrease of equilibrium price and quantity.

So in this case equilibrium           price will decrease. But equilibrium quantity can increase/remain constant/decrease according as absolute change in demand (∆D/D) >=< change in supply (∆S/S) demand.


(d) Decrease of Supply and Increase of DemandDecrease of supply leads to increase of equilibrium price and decrease of equilibrium quantity. Again decrease of demand leads to increase of equilibrium price and quantity.

So in this case equilibrium price will increase. But equilibrium quantity can increase/remain constant/decrease according as change in demand (∆D/D) >=< absolute change in supply (∆S/S) demand.

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