Consider a Competitive Market Where the Demand and the Supply

question 11

Multiple Choice

Consider a competitive market where the demand and the supply depend on the current price of the good. Then fitting a line through the quantity-price outcomes will

• A)give you an estimate of the demand curve.
• B)estimate neither a demand curve nor a supply curve.
• C)enable you to calculate the price elasticity of supply.
• D)give you the exogenous part of the demand in the first stage of TSLS.

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