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In order to estimate the welfare loss we must be able to quote a monopoly price (p1 in Figure 2.1) and also an estimate of the price as it would have stood had the sector been competitive (p2 in Figure 2.1). We also need an estimate of the demand curve in order to know what quantity consumers would buy at each price, q1 when the price is px and q2 when it is p2. A monopoly situation involves a shift from B to point A, which causes a welfare loss equivalent to triangle ABC. 

In short, the imperfections of the pharmaceutical market cause (a) less price sensitivity on the demand side, (b) a certain amount of market power on the supply side, and (c) demand curves that do not reflect the true social benefit. Demand for pharmaceuticals is greater and less price-elastic than it should be. The reason for this is that consumers have little price sensitivity, especially under insurance coverage. 

The emissions reduction effects are caused in part by a reduction in UK output - a combination of a change in the share of the UK market held by UK producers and of weaker demand from consumers as a consequence of higher prices. They are also caused by investment in carbon-efficient technologies. Most of the emissions reduction is attributable to greater carbon efficiency, driven by the carbon abatement curves prepared for The Carbon Trust by Ecofys. Only in the steel and cement sectors does output reduction contribute to a significant carbon reduction. 

For example, if the demand curve shifts to D rather than D , market price will rise to P . If the supply shift from S to S is small enough, producers could thus actually see an increase in their quasi-rents. Qualitative results are unchanged, however alterations in producer quasi-rents and consumer surplus result from the pollution-caused changes in the two sectors. These two examples serve to illustrate the issues of concern here consumers and producers can bear very different economic gains or losses depending on the relative shifts of the demand and supply functions. Moreover, the distribution of these economic consequences can differ drastically with the slope of the demand function relative to the slope of the supply function. 

At a given price, the sum of all the consumers demands gives the market demand for the particular product at that price. If all the consumer demand functions were known, they could be added to give the total market demand function. The total market demand curve is a plot of price p versus total amount of a given product required by all consumers Q. This function usually has a negative slope the lower the price, the greater the quantity demanded. 

It is impractical to build up a total market demand curve for a product by estimating each individual consumer demand and then adding these demands. However, a qualitative understanding of utility and elasticities combined with statistical analysis of past market behavior, projected consumer incomes, and sales of major items does permit total demand for a particular product to be estimated. The ability to arrive at such an estimate is a crucial step in projecting the profitability of a business venture in the CPI. Two approaches may be used to derive a total market demand curve. 

The following notation will be used the price p of the chemical is a function of the total quantity sold, Q, and an index A, representing the reliability of the chemical this index will be referred to as the accumulation constant of the chemical. The inverse demand curve can therefore be written as p(Q, A). Consumers preferences for chemical persistence mean that marginal utility (and hence price) is increasing in the level of this characteristic, up to some critical point A after this point, concerns for toxic residues and personal safety mean that marginal utility/price decreases. Therefore dp/dA = p >OfoiA< A but < 0 for A > A and p < 0. As usual the price of the chemical decreases with the aggregate quantity sold (i.e. dp/dQ= Pq< 0). 

Economists measure the benefit derived from an activity by the surplus that it generates. This surplus is defined in a very specific way - it is the marginal benefit received by consumers from purchasing the product, summed over all consumers, plus the profits made by firms selling the product. Equivalently, this surplus is equal to the area under the inverse demand curve p(Q,A), i.e. the area marked CS in Figure 7.2. (Zero costs have been assumed in this figure for simplicity.) In the notation that has been used in this section, the surplus is given by p(i/, A) d(/ - C( Q, A). 

Consumers have a willingness-to-pay parameter that is uniform on [0,1]. To impose an assumption that retail provides a superior shopping experience, the value to the consumer is scaled down by a multiplier 6 < I when the product is obtained through the direct channel. 6 can be interpreted as consumers willingness to tolerate the inconveniences of the direct channel. This structure produces deterministic demand curves that indicate how the market will be split between the channels as a linear function of the prices. Competition in this model is purely along the price dimension. Non-price differences between the channels are captured in 9, but this is a parameter of consumer preferences, not a decision variable that either channel can influence. 

In the United States, as the public consciously chooses to purchase recycled products or products that contain recycle content, the value of recycled materials changes (21). The consciousness of the consumer pubhc translates this into law in Oregon, California, Wisconsin, and Florida, with other states to follow. This plus the realization that recycling is a part of waste management, like landfills or incinerators, and is a cost society must bear in effect separates the supply-demand curve of the recycled material from the supply-demand curve of the virgin material. Also, as recyclers obtain Food and Drug Administration status and ISO certification, new market opportunities will open the possibility for higher prices for materials derived from the waste stream (28). 

Then 0.01 mole of potassium cyanate was dissolved in a small amount of water and added to a saturated solution of ozone in 3100 ml. of neutral distilled water, which was agitated thoroughly. The redox potential fell to a minimum point, rose slightly, and then fell off in a normal decay curve. The raising of the pH which would follow upon addition of cyanate could catalyze the decomposition of ozone, but would not account for the minimum in the curve. Cyanate solutions will, therefore, exercise an ozone demand, whether through hydrolysis or oxidation, and ozone will be consumed until the demand is satisfied. 

The majority of issues since 1995 have come with floating-rate notes. However, in the latter part of 2000, demand for the asset class was expressed by fixed-rate buyers and MBNA EBL issued two fixed-rate transactions, one euro- and one sterling-denominated. Both issues had 10-year maturities and capitalised on the relatively small supply of consumer asset securitisations available in that sector of the curve. Exhibit 13.4 shows issuers of European CCABS ranked by cumulative issuance. 

One of the methods developed for the seismic risk evaluation of structures is the SAC-FEMA method, which enables probability assessment in closed form (Cornell et al. 2002), and represents a part of a broader PEER probabilistic framework (Deierlein 2004). Within the framework of SAC-FEMA method, the relationship between the seismic intensity measure and the engineering demand parameter is usually determined by Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) developed by Vamvatsikos Cornell (2002). IDA is a powerful tool for estimation of seismic demand and capacity for multiple levels of intensity. However, it requires a large number of inelastic time-history analyses (and corresponding detailed data on ground motion time-histories and hysteretic behavior of structural elements) and is thus very time-consuming. Often it is possible to create summarized IDA curves with less input data, with less effort, but with still acceptable accuracy. One possible approach is to determine seismic demand for multiple levels... 

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