Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · Income elasticity of demand

Income elasticity of demand — practice question

The diagram depicts the cocoa market, and cocoa is a normal good. At first, the market is at equilibrium with price Pe and quantity Qe bought and sold. Which pair of events, with event 1 occurring before event 2, must have taken place to shift the market to the new equilibrium at point X?

  • Aevent 1: a decline in popularity of cocoa; event 2: the removal of a subsidy previously paid to cocoa producers
  • Bevent 1: a decrease in disposable income; event 2: a decrease in costs of producing cocoa
  • Cevent 1: an increase in disposable income; event 2: an increase in the number of cocoa producers
  • Devent 1: a successful advertising campaign by cocoa producers; event 2: an increase in the taxation of cocoa

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