Giffen Good Example - Price Change, Income and Substitution Effect - Intro to Microeconomics
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- We analyze the effect of a price decrease on the consumption of a Giffen good - breaking this down into income and substitution effects.
Where normally, when the price of a good goes down, we expect our consumption of that good to go up (this is true certainly for normal goods, and even so for inferior goods), but with Giffen goods, paradoxically our consumption of a Giffen good decreases. We use budget lines and indifferent curves to see how this effect comes about.
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Isn't the demand for the giffen good suppose to go down as it's price decreases? and the opposite being true?
exactly
I think the budget line show how much of a good you can afford to buy which is why despite being a giffen good, as its price decreases, the BL of good B pivots outward since you can now buy more of it with the same income. But the outward rotation doesn't necessarily mean you will buy more. It just implies you can afford to buy more I guess.
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Hi, could you please tell me what will be this if the price for the Giffen good is increasing
+Ashika Raj just the opposite. the substitution effect would be negative, the income effect would be positive and the total effect would be positive, since income effect is dominant for giffen goods.
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Man it was good but your two indifference curves were touching each other which is against the logic of indefference curves isnt it ?
You mean starting at 6:52? You're right, they should be infinitesimally separated. It's hard to draw correct indifferent curves for Giffen goods!
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I'm stuck in one of the question .What will be the slope of the engel curve in case of giffen goods?
Hi, so for a giffen good, the indifference curve can be altered to make it look like a decrease in QB, when PB decrease? I thought the indifference curve must be similar even when shifted up or down?
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I thought as the price of a Giffin good goes down demand goes down too? How can the substitution effect cause an increase in consumption of a giffin good?
The final effect on demand is a result of income & substitution effect. When price goes down a rational consumer will always substitute a relatively more expensive good with a relatively cheaper good, regardless of the nature of the good. In fact, the substitution effect is always positive for normal, inferior and giffen goods.
The overall effect on quantity demanded depends on the "strength" of the income effect. In the case of giffen goods, income effect is "stronger" than the substitution effect and goes in the opposite direction of the change in real income (negative nature of YED for giffen goods).
So, if the price of a giffen good goes down, the substitution effect will cause an increase in quantity demanded but the overall effect on quantity demanded will be negative because of the strength of the income effect.
I hope this helps!
hwo would you show thr effects when there is an increase in the budget/income but the 2 goods prices stay the same?
If Good B is giffen good, should not the budget line move inward not outward?
Giffen good came out in CIE A level although its not in textbook. WTF
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In the case of Giffen goods you will not be able to derive demand function because Giffen goods violate demand function
what if good on y-axis is inferior and price of good y changes?? help
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Where is the price increase effect for giffen goods
How can a line be parallel to an indifference curve man? You gotta think before you speak!!!!
PS: I guess you wanted to say Tangent to the old IC.
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wrong, substitution effect is always negative
Sorry about the audio - I have hopefully resolved that issue with recent videos.
At least the content on this was helpful!! Thanks!
Sorry about the audio - I've hopefully fixed that issue with recent videos -- I'm happy at least the content was helpful for this one!