Monday, March 7, 2011

Price elasticity of demand

Price elasticity of demand (PED or Ed) is a measure used in economics to show the sensitivity, or elasticity, of the quantity demanded of a good or service to a change in its price. Keeping all the other determinants of demand such as income constant, it gives the percentage change in quantity demanded in response to a one percent change in price.

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