. Suppose your marketing research department estimates the demand for your company’s product as Qx= 500-11Px+0.5Y, where Qx is the quantity demanded per week, Px is the price of product X, and Y is the average household income per week in the city. R2=0.87, the standard error of the coefficients of the price (Px) and household weekly income (Y) are 2 and 0.1, respectively. a. Are the coefficients of Px and Y statistically significant? b. Given the initial values Px=$10 and Y=$1000, find price elasticity (Ep) and income elasticity(EY), respectively. Is the demand for the company’s product price and income elastic, or inelastic?

. Suppose your marketing research department estimates the demand for your company’s product as Qx= 500-11Px+0.5Y, where Qx is the quantity demanded per week, Px is the price of product X, and Y is the average household income per week in the city. R2=0.87, the standard error of the coefficients of the price (Px) and household weekly income (Y) are 2 and 0.1, respectively. a. Are the coefficients of Px and Y statistically significant? b. Given the initial values Px=$10 and Y=$1000, find price elasticity (Ep) and income elasticity(EY), respectively. Is the demand for the company’s product price and income elastic, or inelastic?

Managerial Economics: Applications, Strategies and Tactics (MindTap Course List)

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Author:James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris

Publisher:James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, Frederick H.deB. Harris

Chapter4: Estimating Demand

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