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Key words of Section 1: Microeconomics

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show A process or an institution through which potential buyers and sellers of a product interact  
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show The relationship between various possible prices and the corresponding quantities that an individual or the market is willing and able to buy per period of time  
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show Goods for which demand increases following an increase in consumers' income  
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Inferior Goods   show
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show Two goods that can satisfy the same need for a consumer which are thus in competitive consumption and for which XED is positive.  
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show Goods that are consumed jointly  
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show The difference between how much a consumer is willing and able to pay at the most for some amount of a good and what he or she actually ends up paying  
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show The difference between what a firm earns and the minimum it requires to offer a given amount of a good  
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Allocative Efficiency   show
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Price Elasticity of Demand (PED)   show
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Price Elasticity of Supply (PES)   show
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Cross-price Elasticity of Demand   show
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Income Elasticity of Demand (YED)   show
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Indirect Taxation   show
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show An indirect tax that is set as a fixed amount per unit  
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show An indirect tax expressed as a percentage of the price of a product  
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Subsidy   show
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Price Ceiling   show
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Price Floor   show
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Market failure   show
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Externalities   show
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