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Elasticity
Elasticity may refer to:
- Elasticity (physics), continuum mechanics of bodies which deform reversibly under stress
Various uses are derived from this physical sense of the term, especially in economics:
- Elasticity (economics), a general term for a ratio of change. For more specific economic forms of elasticity, see:
- Price elasticity of demand
- Price elasticity of supply
- Income elasticity of demand
- Cross elasticity of demand
- Output elasticity
- Elasticity of substitution
- Beta coefficient
- Yield elasticity of bond value
- Elasticity of a function, a mathematical definition of point elasticity
- Arc elasticity
The Elasticity of Demand for Legal Services
Dan Slater:
Who underwrites associate salary bumps? The firms, or their clients?
It’s the question grappled with today in an item from The Recorder...
Price Erosion and Elasticity of Demand: Are the Courts Getting it Right?
This article (membership required) by Jeffery A. Stec, Ph.D appears in the July 2008 issue of IP Remedies, a publication of the Intellectual Property Litigation committee of the American Bar Association...
The Income Elasticity of Gross Casino Revenues
Mark W. Nichols & Mehmet Serkan Tosunhave (both of the University of Nevada-Reno, Department of Economics) have published The Income Elasticity of Gross Casino Revenues: Short?Run and Long?Run Estimates, 61 Nat'l Tax J...
Reconciling the Opposing Views of Critical Elasticity
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Michael Baumann (Economists Incorporated) & Paul Godek (Compass Lexecon) make an attempt at Reconciling the Opposing Views of Critical Elasticity...
Price elasticity datapoint of the day, citizenship edition
John Quelch reports:
Legal immigrants to the US who are resident for five years (or three years for those who marry a US citizen) can apply for US citizenship...
Giertz on The Elasticity of Taxable Income over the 1980s & 1990s
Seth H. Giertz (Tax Analysis Division, Congressional Budget Office) has published The Elasticity of Taxable Income over the 1980s and 1990s, 60 Nat'l Tax J...
















