Economics Questions and Answers

A parallel market arises when the government limits the amount of foreign exchange that can be bought or sold for particular transactions, causing excess demand or supply to spill over into a parallel market, or authorizes that exchange rates for certain transactions be pegged and for other transactions be floating.

A consumer is rational if he decides for the option that maximizes his/her utility. When studying the bachelor for Economics, in microeconomics class, the teacher would always tell you that it is assumed that consumers are rational, meaning that they maximize their profits based on their utility payoffs.

An increase in supply is illustrated by a shift of the supply curve to the right. An increase in supply can be caused by: an increase in the number of producers. a decrease in the costs of production (such as higher prices for oil, labour, or other factors of production).

It refers to how the amount supplied of a good or service changes in response to a price of factor change. 

Factors that Influence the PES. There are numerous factors that impact the price elasticity of supply including the number of producers, spare capacity, ease of switching, ease of storage, length of production period, time period of training, factor mobility, and how costs react.

In economics, effective demand (ED) in a market is the demand for a product or service which occurs when purchasers are constrained in a different market. it is the Quantity of a good or service that consumers are actually buying at the current market price.