Explain any five factors affecting Price Elasticity of Demand.
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Solution
Five factors affecting the elasticity of demand are:
1)
Nature of commodity: Necessaries have less than unitary elastic demand
whereas, luxuries have more than unitary elastic demand.
2) Time period: Demand is inelastic in short period but elastic in long period.
3) Price level: elasticity of demand will be high at higher level of the price of the commodity and low at lower level of price.
4)
Diversity of uses: Commodities that can be put to variety uses have
elastic demand. On the other hand, if a commodity has only few uses, its
demand is likely to be less elastic.5) Habit of consumers: Goods to which consumers become habitual will have inelastic demand.