Individual and market demand

• Individual demand is the demand of one individual consumer in the market for a good or service.
• Market demand is the total combined demand of all consumers in the market for a good or service.

Derivation of Market Demand from Individual
Demand – Horizontal Summation
Price
3
2
1
0
Consumer 1
0
1
2
3
Consumer 2
0
0
1
2
Market Demand
0
1
3
5

• Q
1
= 100 – 5P
• Q
2
= 160 - 10P
• Q
3
= 200 – 10P
• Find the Market Quantity equation from these
3 individual demand quantity equations? Then draw the graph for all the lines?

• Qt = Q
1 +
Q
2 +
Q
3
• Qt = 100 – 5P + 160 - 10P + 200 – 10P
• Qt= 460 - 23P

• Use the following 2 individual demand equations to find the market demand equation:
• Q h
= 300 – 5P
• Q s
= 100 – 10P
• Draw the graph for all 3 equations.

• If P > 10
– Then Qt = Q h
= 300 – 5P
If P =< 10
Then Qt = Qh + Qs = 400 – 15P

• Domestic demand for wheat is given by the equation: QDD = 1430 - 55P
• Export demand is given by: QDE = 1470 - 70P
• Where P is the price in Dollars.
• Find the Market Demand equations for US wheat?
• Draw the graph for all 3 lines.

• A fall in the price of a good has two effects:
• Consumers will tend to buy more of the good that has become cheaper and less of those goods that are now
relatively more expensive. This response to a change in the
relative prices of goods is called the substitution effect.
• Because one of the goods is now cheaper, consumers enjoy
an increase in real purchasing power. They are better off because they can buy the same amount of the good for less money, and thus have money left over for additional purchases. The change in demand resulting from this change in real purchasing power is called the income effect.
• Total Effect = Substitution Effect + Income Effect

Example of Total effects

Example of Substitution effect

Example of Substitution and Income effect

• An Inferior good is a good that decreases in demand when consumer income rises.
• Normal goods are those for which consumers' demand increases when their income increases.
• A special type of inferior good may exist known as the
Giffen good , which would disobey the " law of demand ". Quite simply, when the price of a Giffen good increases, the demand for that good increases.
This would have to be a good that is such a large proportion of a person or market's consumption that the income effect of a price increase would produce, effectively, more demand.

• It was noted by Sir Robert Giffen III that in
Ireland during the 19th century there was a rise in the price of bread. The poor people were forced to reduce their consumption of meat and expensive items like eggs etc. Now bread being still the cheapest food, so they started consuming more of it though its price was rising. This phenomenon is often described as "Giffen's Paradox".