A central factor that seems to be driving differences in the price paid by families for center - based care is what economists would describe
as the demand curve: the relationship between the price of a good or service and the amount of it that consumers are willing and able to purchase.
Just don't use them without considering your funnel, as well
as your demand curve.
, Economics 101 will tell you that the marginal buyer sets the price; and, if you introduce a wave of new buyers on an already tight market, prices will soon reach for the sky
as the demand curve shifts even slightly to the right.»
Not exact matches
Although the added
demand for goods and services is inflationary since it will cause a rise in overall prices, the increased
demand will also reduce the unemployment rate,
as seen in the classic Phillips
curve relationship.
«International Trade 101 analyses the partial equilibrium effects of a tariff
as driving a wedge between
demand and supply
curves, whereby the price goes up and the quantity down,» he said in a note to clients.
Supply and
demand (the
curves usually shown in such charts are unrealistic,
as bids and offers in the market are arranged in discrete steps).
Currently, not only is
demand growth seen
as strong, but the futures
curve and OPEC's cuts are also leading to a tighter market, and traders are said to be selling crude that they had stockpiled at Saldanha Bay in South Africa.
As a result, the
demand curve will shift to the right, from D1 to D2, pushing up the price level to P *.
Huge increases in supply and large debt loads that needed to be serviced saw iron ore prices collapse
as the supply and
demand curve proved non-linear.
On the other hand, when investors
demand more return in the short term than in the long run, that's known
as an inverted yield
curve.
Since mortgage rates are tied to the longer end of the Treasury yield
curve,
as those rates rise, we may see
demand impacted from higher mortgage rates.
Carefully controlled experiments not only attempted to divine the shape of a
demand curve — which shows just how much of a product people will buy
as you keep raising the price, allowing retailers to find the optimal, profit - maximizing figure.
Yield
curve inversions, while rare, generally forecast deep market downward adjustments,
as investors in strong markets typically
demand higher yields for holding debt notes longer.
Simon Kuznets, the Nobel prize - winning economist more famous for his work on measuring gross domestic product, theorised that most economies would follow what became known
as the Kuznets
curve: a roughly bell
curve - shaped pattern that reflected inequality rising
as people left farms to work in factories, then falling
as they
demanded governments redistribute the benefits of industrialisation.
This is the most valuable part of the
curve,
as electricity prices are highest at the period of highest
demand.»
They already have working plants in Asia, so if
demand perks up there
as expected, they may advance down the cost
curve quicker than U.S. companies awaiting U.S. buyers.
He tends to take the executives at their word, accepting
as common sense that dating is a marketplace ruled by supply - and -
demand curves, «revealed preferences,» the rationalized pursuit of maximized utility, and «liquidity» in potential partners.
Included in the PowerPoint: Macroeconomic Objectives (
AS Level) a) Aggregate
Demand (AD) and Aggregate Supply (AS) analysis - the shape and determinants of AD and AS curves; AD = C+I+G + (X-M)- the distinction between a movement along and a shift in AD and AS - the interaction of AD and AS and the determination of the level of output, prices and employment b) Inflation - the definition of inflation; degrees of inflation and the measurement of inflation; deflation and disinflation - the distinction between money values and real data - the cause of inflation (cost - push and demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked
Demand (AD) and Aggregate Supply (
AS) analysis - the shape and determinants of AD and
AS curves; AD = C+I+G + (X-M)- the distinction between a movement along and a shift in AD and
AS - the interaction of AD and
AS and the determination of the level of output, prices and employment b) Inflation - the definition of inflation; degrees of inflation and the measurement of inflation; deflation and disinflation - the distinction between money values and real data - the cause of inflation (cost - push and
demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked
demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J
curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility
curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.
The blind roller coaster
curve demands a leap of faith by drivers
as they hurtle over the summit.
This framework for understanding interest rates its known
as the Liquidity Preference Framework, with the Liquidity Preference
Curve being the Demand for Money c
Curve being the
Demand for Money
curvecurve.
An inverse yield
curve predicts lower interest rates in the future
as longer - term bonds are being
demanded, sending the yields down.
The
demand curve is usually depicted
as a downward sloping line, which conforms to the law of
demand; the quantity
demanded of a good varies inversely
as the price of the good.
We have reduced the fund's credit exposures in favor of income - oriented strategies on the front end of the
curve as well
as mortgages and securitized assets, which we believe should continue to experience strong
demand as we are still in a low yield environment relative to historical norms.
A company
as old and storied
as Nintendo shouldn't be getting worse at targeting the center of a supply /
demand curve but that's certainly the impression they're giving the general public.
The game has a nicely done difficulty
curve, with a steady increase in
demand for what you're required to do
as you go deeper into the game.
As long as solar is a relatively small part of the mix, it actually helps level the load curve, because demand is so much higher during the day than at night, and particularly if you have a lot of nuclear in the mix, solar will reduce the need for peaking generatio
As long
as solar is a relatively small part of the mix, it actually helps level the load curve, because demand is so much higher during the day than at night, and particularly if you have a lot of nuclear in the mix, solar will reduce the need for peaking generatio
as solar is a relatively small part of the mix, it actually helps level the load
curve, because
demand is so much higher during the day than at night, and particularly if you have a lot of nuclear in the mix, solar will reduce the need for peaking generation.
All of this solar has led to what CAISO calls the «duck
curve» — a deep dip in
demand during solar - saturated midday hours, followed by a steep ramp
as solar fades away.
Solar's effect on energy
demand is known
as the «duck
curve,» which puts a strain on the grid.
As suggested in the article, the only way to stop the development of the oil sands (or any new oil development for that matter) is to address the supply side of the supply - demand curve, because as long as oil is at $ 90 bbl the producers will find a way to get their product to marke
As suggested in the article, the only way to stop the development of the oil sands (or any new oil development for that matter) is to address the supply side of the supply -
demand curve, because
as long as oil is at $ 90 bbl the producers will find a way to get their product to marke
as long
as oil is at $ 90 bbl the producers will find a way to get their product to marke
as oil is at $ 90 bbl the producers will find a way to get their product to market.
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As I illustrated recently to a law class at UBC, legal services don't necessarily follow traditional supply -
demand curves.
Michael H. Trotter is his excellent commentary, entitled «Legal Services Have Transformed into Legal Commodities» summarizes all of the various factors that transform the legal services
demand curve through four stages (
as I see it) from customization to specialization to standardization and finally to commoditization.
Put another way, we have been growing the number of law schools
as though the
demand for lawyers would permanently continue to experience exponential growth, whereas in fact it follows the classic natural growth S -
curve.
Should the company decline the offer, it then becomes unlikely the 2017 Pixel will feature a
curved display,
as there's almost no other company that can currently manufacture OLED displays at the scale Google requires to meet
demand for one of its smartphones.
There may not even be a
curved edge version,
as the
demand for the latter is quite low.
Besides, iPhone users have been longing for a new form factor — which the edgeless OLED display will deliver —
as opposed to specifically
demanding a
curved display.
When this happens it causes the device to restart, so Apple added an algorithm that
curves CPU
demands as batteries age.
The company said that the current
demand for both the flat and
curved screen versions of the S6 exceeds their initial calculations, while analysts and investors predict that the devices will have a significant earnings momentum
as soon
as they go on a worldwide sale this month.
As Apple wanted to utilize a
curved display for its «flagship» iPhone product this year, it had to employ LED panels (
curved LCD display tech is yet to hit smartphones); Samsung might just be the only supplier of high - quality mobile OLED displays capable of meeting Apple's huge unit
demands.
With their
curved backs, rounded bases and luxe - looking upholstery, these vintage - inspired pieces
demand all the attention in any space and look
as inviting
as they are glamorous.