princch弹性及应用课件解析.ppt

* We return to our scenario. It’s not hard for students to imagine being in this position – running their own business and trying to decide whether to raise the price. To most of your students, it should be clear that making the best possible decision would require information about the likely effects of the price increase on revenue. That is why elasticity is so helpful, as we will now see…. * In the “Normal” view (edit mode), the labels over the graph look cluttered, like they’re on top of each other. This is not a mistake – in “Slide Show” mode (presentation mode), all will be fine – try it! Point out to students that the area (outlined in blue) representing lost revenue due to lower Q is larger than the area (outlined in yellow) representing increased revenue due to higher P. Hence, the net effect is a fall in revenue. * Again, the slide appears cluttered in “Normal” view (edit mode), but everything is fine when displayed in “Slide Show” mode (presentation mode). Point out to students that the area representing lost revenue due to lower Q is smaller than the area representing increased revenue due to higher P. Hence, the net effect is an increase in revenue. The knife-edge case, not shown here but perhaps worth mentioning in class, is unit-elastic demand. In that case, an increase in price leaves revenue unchanged: the increase in revenue from higher P exactly offsets the lost revenue due to lower Q. * Most everything in the “price elasticity of supply” section corresponds to analogous concepts from the “price elasticity of demand” section. So, it is probably safe to move through this section more quickly. * Economists classify supply curves according to their elasticity. The next 5 slides present the different classifications, from least to most elastic. * This section is not perfectly analogous to the section on the determinants of the price elasticity of demand, but it’s similar enough that you can probably cover it more quickly an