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Ag Ec 515
Exam 2
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 1
04/14/2010

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Engles Law

Definition
As income goes up, budget spent on food goes down
Term

Total Revenue (TR)

Average Revenue (AR)

Marginal Revenue (MR)

Demand Elasticities

Definition

(TR) - P*Q

 

(AR) - P = TR/ Q

 

(MR) - AR @ twice the slope

 

Demand Elacticities = €p is (price).. €inc is (INC)

a 1% change in price results in a ____ % change in QD in the ______ dirrection

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Law of Market demand

Definition

- market boundary between 2 or more suppliers are determined by area of:

- procuct cost + transportation costs.. they MUST BE EQUAL

- competition goes up, market power goes down

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Why Estimate a Demand curve?

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- determine elasticities

- predict future demand prices

- better understand different componets

- to aid in marketing decisions

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Correlation

Definition

- correlation R is bound between -1 and +1 and tells how negative or positive they are:

 

- if # is closer to +1, this is STRONGER

- if # is closer to -1, this is WEAKER     

 

.90 is stronger than .89 and <

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Product Differentation

 


Definition

- marketing can be thought of as means by which one firm differentiates its product to service from that of its competeator


- by differentiating the firm has some markey power. they are able to have more control over prices and what they charge.


- a firm seeking this, wants and own price elasticity smaller than infinity and a x-price close to 0

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R2 in a regression

Definition
- if the r2 is .714, this means that 71% of cariation in Q could be explained in the regression output
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Standard Error

Definition

 based on t-stat:

 

< 2 = significantly different than 0

> 2 = not signigicantly different than 0

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