In: Economics
PROBLEM:
With the aid of supply and demand diagrams (you need an explicit diagram for each case), show and explain how and why we would expect prices and quantities to change in the market for Compact Discs (CDs) in each of the following situations when:
(a) Technical improvements lead to a fall in the cost of
producing CDs.
(b) Technical improvements lead to a fall in the cost of producing
MP3 players.
(c) Technical improvements lead to a fall in the cost of producing
CD-players.
(d) Streaming music services, such as Spotify, AccuRadio, and
Grooveshark, etc. become widely available
(e) Congress passes laws making streaming music services, such as
Spotify, AccuRadio, and Grooveshark, etc. illegal.