What Is the Equilibrium Price?
It is the price where the amount buyers want equals the amount sellers offer, also called the market-clearing price.
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1.What is the equilibrium price?
It is the price where the amount buyers want equals the amount sellers offer, also called the market-clearing price.
2.What happens when the price is above the equilibrium?
Above the equilibrium sellers offer more than buyers want; leftovers push sellers to cut the price.
3.At a price of 2, buyers want 120 boxes and sellers bring 40. What is it?
Buyers want 80 more boxes than sellers bring: a shortage of 80.
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Sources (4)
- Market Equilibrium (Podcast-Lektion, Economic Lowdown) (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis / Federal Reserve Education)
- The Science of Supply and Demand (Page One Economics, D. F. Perkis) (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
- Supply and Demand: Why Markets Tick (Back to Basics, I. Asmundson) (International Monetary Fund, Finance & Development)
- Eigene Rechnung: synthetisches Marktbeispiel (Erdbeerstand, Tabelle Preis/Menge)
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