In order for a small-business order to price her products or services correctly, she must be able to understand what impact that price will have on demand. In some cases, demand will rise or fall with ...

Economists use elasticity of demand to gauge how responsive consumers are to changes in price and income, but investors can also use elasticity of demand to help make more informed investing decisions ...

A customer normally buys a cup of coffee and one doughnut on the way to work in the morning. However, for one day only, the coffee shop has dropped the price of doughnuts by 30 percent. The customer ...

Demand elasticity is a phenomenon where demand for a specific good or service changes depending on factors such as how it is priced, whether alternatives are available or local income trends.

Grab's cost-cutting and optimization policies not only improved profitability but also revealed a certain degree of moat, inelastic demand, the incentive spending efficiencies. Although Grab can reach ...

We present evidence of inelastic demand for risky sovereign bonds and explore its implications for optimal government debt policies. Using monthly changes in the composition of a major international ...

OPEC recently increased its global oil demand growth forecast by 100,000 bbls/d. This marks the first change since February, as the group responds to accelerating demand signals. A new dynamic that ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as ...