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| In [[economics]], '''supply''' refers to the amount of a [[product (business)|product]] that producers and firms are willing to sell at a given [[price]] all other factors being held constant. Usually, supply is plotted as a [[supply curve]] showing the relationship of price to the amount of product businesses are willing to sell.
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| == Supply schedule ==
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| A supply schedule is a table which shows how much one or more firms will be willing to supply at particular prices under the existing circumstances.<ref name=MankiwWSJ>{{cite book|last = Mankiw|first = N. Gregory|authorlink = N. Gregory Mankiw|title = Principles of Economics, Wall Street Journal Edition|publisher = Dryden Press, San Diego|year = 1998|pages = 71–73|isbn = 0-03-098238-3}}</ref> Some of the more important factors affecting supply are the good's own price, the prices of related goods, production costs, technology and expectations of sellers.
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| ===Factors affecting supply===
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| Innumerable factors and circumstances could affect a seller's willingness or ability to produce and sell a good. Some of the more common factors are:
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| :'''Good's own price:''' The basic supply relationship is between the price of a good and the quantity supplied. Although there is no "Law of Supply", generally, the relationship is positive, meaning that an increase in price will induce an increase in the quantity supplied.<ref name="Melvin 2002">Melvin & Boyes, Microeconomics 5th ed. (Houghton Mifflin 2002)</ref>
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| :'''Prices of related goods:'''<ref name="Melvin 2002"/> For purposes of supply analysis related goods refer to goods from which [[Factor of production|inputs]] are derived to be used in the production of the primary good. For example, Spam is made from pork shoulders and ham. Both are derived from pigs. Therefore pigs would be considered a related good to Spam. In this case the relationship would be negative or inverse. If the price of pigs goes up the supply of Spam would decrease (supply curve shifts left) because the cost of production would have increased. A related good may also be a good that can be produced with the firm's existing [[factor of production|factors of production]]. For example, suppose that a firm produces leather belts, and that the firm's managers learn that leather pouches for smartphones are more profitable than belts. The firm might reduce its production of belts and begin production of cell phone pouches based on this information. Finally, a change in the price of a [[Joint product pricing|joint product]] will affect supply. For example beef products and anani sikim leather are joint products. If a company runs both a beef processing operation and a tannery an increase in the price of steaks would mean that more cattle are processed which would increase the supply of leather.<ref>Ayers & Collins, Microeconomics (Pearson 2003)
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| at 66.</ref>
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| :'''Conditions of production:''' The most significant factor here is the state of technology. If there is a [[Technological progress|technological advancement]] in one good's production, the supply increases. Other variables may also affect production conditions. For instance, for agricultural goods, weather is crucial for it may affect the production outputs. <ref>Rosen, Harvey (2005). ''Public Finance'', p. 545. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, New York. ISBN 0-07-287648-4.</ref>
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| :'''Expectations:''' Sellers' e concerning future market conditions can directly affect supply.<ref>Goodwin, N, Nelson, J; Ackerman, F & Weissskopf, T: Microeconomics in Context 2d ed. Page 83 Sharpe 2009</ref> If the seller believes that the [[demand]] for his product will sharply increase in the foreseeable future the firm owner may immediately increase production in anticipation of future price increases. The supply curve would shift out. <ref name="Goodwin, Nelson 2009">Goodwin, Nelson, Ackerman, & Weissskopf, Microeconomics in Context 2d ed. (Sharpe 2009) at 83.</ref>
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| :'''Price of inputs:''' Inputs include land, labor, energy and raw materials.<ref>Samuelson & Nordhaus, Microeconomics, 17th ed. (McGraw-Hill 2001), p. 53.</ref> If the price of inputs increases the supply curve will shift left as sellers are less willing or able to sell goods at any given price. For example, if the price of electricity increased a seller may reduce his supply of his product because of the increased costs of production.<ref name="Goodwin, Nelson 2009"/>
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| :'''Number of suppliers:''' The market supply curve is the horizontal summation of the individual supply curves. As more firms enter the industry the market supply curve will shift out driving down prices.
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| :'''Government policies and regulations:''' Government intervention can have a significant effect on supply.<ref>Samuelson & Nordhaus, Microeconomics, 17th ed. (McGraw-Hill 2001), p. 53.</ref> Government intervention can take many forms including environmental and health regulations, hour and wage laws, taxes, electrical and natural gas rates and zoning and land use regulations.<ref>Samuelson & Nordhaus, Microeconomics, 17th ed. (McGraw-Hill 2001) at 56</ref>
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| This list is not exhaustive. All facts and circumstances that are relevant to a seller's willingness or ability to produce and sell goods can affect supply.<ref>Colander, David C. Microeconomics 7th ed. Page 90. McGraw-Hill 2008.</ref> For example, if the forecast is for snow retail sellers will respond by increasing their stocks of snow sleds or skis or winter clothing or bread and milk.
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| ==Supply function and equation==
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| The supply function is the mathematical expression of the relationship between supply and those factors that affect the willingness and ability of a supplier to offer goods for sale. An example would be the curve implied by <math>Q_{\text{s}} = f(P;P_{\text{rg}})</math> where <math>P</math> is the price of the good and <math>P_{\text{rg}}</math> is the price of a related good. The semicolon means that the variables to the right are held constant when quantity supplied is plotted against the good's own price. The supply equation is the explicit mathematical expression of the functional relationship. A linear example is <math>Q_{\text{s}}=325+P-30P_{\text{rg}}</math>. Here <math>325</math> is the repository of all non-specified factors that affect supply for the product. The coefficient of <math>P</math> is positive following the general rule that price and quantity supplied are directly related. <math>P_{\text{rg}}</math> is the price of a related good. Typically its coefficient is negative because the related good is an input or a source of inputs.
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| ==Supply curve==
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| [[File:Supply.gif|thumb|An example of a nonlinear supply curve]]
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| The relationship of price and [[supply curve]]. The curve is generally positively sloped. The curve depicts the relationship between two variables only; price and quantity supplied. All other factors affecting supply are held constant. However, these factors are part of the supply equation and are implicitly present in the constant term.<ref>Underwood, Instructor’s Manual, Microeconomics 5th ed. (Prentice-Hall 2001) at 5.</ref>
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| ==Movements versus shifts==
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| Movements along the curve occur only if there is a change in quantity supplied caused by a change in the good's own price.<ref name="ReferenceA">Melvin & Boyes, Microeconomics 5th ed. (Houghton Mifflin 2002) at 60.</ref> A shift in the supply curve, referred to as a change in supply, occurs only if a non-price determinant of supply changes.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> For example, if the price of an ingredient used to produce the good, a related good, were to increase, the supply curve would shift left.<ref>Melvin & Boyes, Microeconomics 5th ed. (Houghton Mifflin 2002) at 56–62.</ref>
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| ==Inverse Supply Equation==
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| By convention in the context of [[supply and demand]] graphs, economists graph the dependent variable (quantity) on the horizontal axis and the independent variable (price) on the vertical axis. The ''inverse supply equation'' is the equation written with the vertical-axis variable isolated on the left side: <math>P=f(Q)</math>. As an example, if the supply equation is <math>Q=40P-2P_{rg}</math> then the inverse supply equation would be <math>P=\tfrac{Q}{40} + \tfrac{P_{rg}}{20}</math>.<ref>Perloff, J. (2008). ''Microeconomics Theory & Applications with Calculus''. Pearson. p. 56.</ref>
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| ==Marginal costs and short-run supply curve==
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| A firm's short-run supply curve is the [[marginal cost]] curve above the [[Shutdown (economics)#Calculating the shutdown point|shutdown point]]—the [[Cost curve#Short-run marginal cost curve (SRMC)|short-run marginal cost curve]] (SRMC) above the minimum [[average variable cost]]). The portion of the SRMC below the shutdown point is not part of the supply curve because the firm is not producing any output.<ref>Technically the short-run supply curve is a discontinuous function which begins at the origin then tracks the y axis until reaching a point level with the shutdown point.</ref> The firm's long-run supply curve is that portion of the [[long-run marginal cost]] curve above the minimum of the [[long run average cost]] curve.
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| ==Shape of the short-run supply curve==
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| The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns (LDMR) shapes the SRMC curve. The LDMR states that as production increases eventually a point (the point of diminishing marginal returns) will be reached after which additional units of output resulting from fixed increments of the labor input will be successively smaller. That is, beyond the point of diminishing marginal returns the [[marginal product of labor]] will continually decrease and hence a continually higher selling price would be necessary to induce the firm to produce more and more output.
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| ==From firm to market supply curve==
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| The market supply curve is the horizontal summation of firm supply curves.<ref>Melvin & Boyes, Microeconomics 5th ed. (Houghton Mifflin 2002) at 56.</ref>
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| ==The shape of the market supply curve==
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| There is no law of supply that “requires” that the market supply curve have a positive slope; the curve may slope down or up or be horizontal or vertical.<ref>Perloff, Microeconomics Theory & Applications with Calculus (Pearson 2008) at 19. Png, Managerial Economics (Blackwell 1999)</ref>
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| ==Elasticity==
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| The [[price elasticity of supply]] (PES) measures the responsiveness of quantity supplied to changes in price, as the percentage change in quantity supplied induced by a one percent change in price. It is calculated for discrete changes as <math>\left ( \tfrac{\Delta Q}{\Delta P} \right ) \times \tfrac{P}{Q}</math> and for smooth changes of differentiable supply functions as <math>\left ( \tfrac{\partial Q}{\partial P} \right ) \times \tfrac{P}{Q}</math>. Since supply is usually increasing in price, the price elasticity of supply is usually positive. For example if the PES for a good is 0.67 a 1% rise in price will induce a two-thirds increase in quantity supplied.
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| Significant determinants include:<br />
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| :'''Complexity of Production:''' Much depends on the complexity of the production process. Textile production is relatively simple. The labor is largely unskilled and production facilities are little more than buildings – no special structures are needed. Thus the PES for textiles is elastic. On the other hand, the PES for specific types of motor vehicles is relatively inelastic. Auto manufacture is a multi-stage process that requires specialized equipment, skilled labor, a large suppliers network and large R&D costs.
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| :'''Time to respond:''' The more time a producer has to respond to price changes the more elastic the supply. For example, a cotton farmer cannot immediately respond to an increase in the price of soybeans.
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| :'''Excess capacity:''' A producer who has unused capacity can quickly respond to price changes in his market assuming that variable factors are readily available.
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| :'''Inventories:''' A producer who has a supply of goods or available storage capacity can quickly respond to price changes.
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| Other [[Elasticity (economics)|elasticities]] can be calculated for non-price determinants of supply. For example, the percentage change the amount of the good supplied caused by a one percent increase in the price of a related good is an input elasticity of supply if the related good is an input in the production process.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} An example would be the change in the supply of cookies caused by a one percent increase in the price of sugar.
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| ===Elasticity along linear supply curves===
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| The slope of a linear supply curve is constant; the elasticity is not. If the linear supply curve intersects the price axis PES will be infinitely elastic at the point of intersection.<ref name="Colander, David C Page 132-33">Colander, David C. (2008). ''Microeconomics'' (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill. pp. 132–133</ref> The coefficient of elasticity decreases as one moves "up" the curve.<ref name="Colander, David C Page 132-33"/> However, all points on the supply curve will have a coefficient of elasticity greater than one.<ref>Colander p. 135.</ref> If the linear supply curve intersects the quantity axis PES will equal zero at the point of intersection and will increase as one moves up the curve;<ref name="Colander, David C Page 132-33"/> however, all points on the curve will have a coefficient of elasticity less than 1. If the linear supply curve intersects the origin PES equals one at the point of origin and along the curve.
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| ==Market structure and the supply curve==
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| There is no such thing as a [[monopoly]] supply curve.<ref name="Pindyck 2001">Pindyck & Rubinfeld, Microeconomics 5th ed. (Prentice-Hall 2001) at 335.</ref> Perfect competition is the only market structure for which a supply function can be derived. In a [[Perfect competition|perfectly competitive market]] the price is given by the marketplace from the point of view of the supplier; a manager of a competitive firm can state what quantity of goods will be supplied for any price by simply referring to the firm's marginal cost curve. To generate his supply function the seller could simply initially hypothetically set the price equal to zero and then incrementally increase the price; at each price he could calculate the hypothetical quantity supplied using the marginal cost curve. Following this process the manager could trace out the complete supply function. A monopolist cannot replicate this process, because price is not imposed by the marketplace and hence is not an independent variable from the point of view of the firm; instead, the firm simultaneously chooses both the price and the quantity subject to the stipulation that together they form a point on the customers' demand curve. A change in demand can result in "changes in price with no changes in output, changes in output with no changes in price or both".<ref name="Pindyck 2001"/> There is simply not a one to one relationship between price and quantity supplied.<ref>Pindyck & Rubinfeld, Microeconomics 5th ed. (Prentice-Hall 2001) at 336.</ref> There is no single function that relates price to quantity supplied.
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| == Aggregate supply in macroeconomics ==
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| {{Main|Aggregate supply|AD-AS model}}
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| {{Expand section|date=May 2011}}
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Demand curve]]
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| * [[Law of supply]]
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| * [[Profit maximization]]
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| * [[Supply and demand]]
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| ==Further reading==
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| * {{cite encyclopedia |last=Ehrbar |first=Al |authorlink= |editor=[[David R. Henderson]] |encyclopedia=[[Concise Encyclopedia of Economics]] |title=Supply |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Supply.html |year=2008 |edition= 2nd |publisher=[[Library of Economics and Liberty]] |location=Indianapolis |isbn=978-0865976658 |oclc=237794267}}
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| * {{cite encyclopedia |last=Henderson |first=David R. |authorlink=David R. Henderson |editor= |encyclopedia=[[Concise Encyclopedia of Economics]] |title=Demand |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Demand.html |year=2008 |edition= 2nd |publisher=[[Library of Economics and Liberty]] |location=Indianapolis |isbn=978-0865976658 |oclc=237794267}}
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