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  2. Supply and demand - Wikipedia

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    Supply chain as connected supply and demand curves. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It postulates that, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular good or other traded item in a perfectly competitive market, will vary until it settles at the market-clearing price, where ...

  3. Demand curve - Wikipedia

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    The shift from D1 to D2 means an increase in demand with consequences for the other variables. A demand curve is a graph depicting the inverse demand function, [1] a relationship between the price of a certain commodity (the y -axis) and the quantity of that commodity that is demanded at that price (the x -axis).

  4. Supply (economics) - Wikipedia

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    A supply schedule is a table which shows how much one or more firms will be willing to supply at particular prices under the existing circumstances. [1] Some of the more important factors affecting supply are the good's own price, the prices of related goods, production costs, technology, the production function, and expectations of sellers.

  5. Law of supply - Wikipedia

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    A supply is a good or service that producers are willing to provide. The law of supply determines the quantity of supply at a given price. The law of supply and demand states that, for a given product, if the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied, then the price increases, which decreases the demand (law of demand) and increases the supply (law of supply)—and vice versa—until the ...

  6. Market economy - Wikipedia

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    A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand. The major characteristic of a market economy is the existence of factor markets that play a dominant role in the allocation of capital and ...

  7. Labour economics - Wikipedia

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    On the shifts in labour supply and demand, factors include demand for skilled workers going up more than the supply of skilled workers and relative to unskilled workers as well as technological changes that increase productivity; all of these things cause wages to go up for skilled labour while unskilled worker wages stay the same or decline ...

  8. Factor market - Wikipedia

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    Price is determined by the interaction of supply and demand; firms attempt to maximize profits, and factors can influence and change the equilibrium price and quantities bought and sold, and the laws of supply and demand hold. In the product market, profit or cost is defined as a function of output.

  9. Opening price for a stock: What it is and how it’s set - AOL

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    Supply and demand: The number of open buy and sell orders can have an impact. There are other factors at play but roughly, demand can cause the price to rise and fall.