微观经济学需求与供给分析解析课件.ppt

* * The whole chapter builds up to this section, which now brings all the elements of demand, supply, and equilibrium together to make predictions. Students are remarkably ready to guess the consequences of some event that changes either demand or supply or both. They must be encouraged to work out the answer and draw the diagram. Explain that the way to answer any question that seeks a prediction about the effects of some events on a market has five steps. Walk them through the steps and have one or two students work some examples in front of the class. The five steps are: 1.Draw a demand-supply diagram and label the axes with the price and quantity of the good or service in question. 2. Think about the events that you are told occur and decide whether they change demand, supply, both demand and supply, or neither demand nor supply. 3. Do the events that change demand or supply bring an increase or a decrease? 4. Draw the new demand curve and supply curve on the diagram. Be sure to shift the curves in the correct direction—leftward for decrease and rightward for increase. (Lots of students want to move the curves upward for increase and downward for decrease—works ok for demand but exactly wrong for supply. Emphasize the left-right shift.) 5. Find the new equilibrium and compare it with the original one. Walk them through the steps and have one or two students work some examples in front of the class. It is critical at this stage to return to the distinction between a change in demand (supply) and a change in the quantity demanded (supplied). You can now use these distinctions to describe the effects of events that change market outcomes. At this point, the students know enough for it to be worthwhile emphasizing the magic of the market’s ability to coordinate plans and reallocate resources. * * * * * * * * * * In each case, there are only three possible answers: - The curve shifts to the right - The curve shifts to the left - The curve does not shift (though the