Glossary · Micro · Supply and demand

Supply shifters

The things that move the whole supply curve: input prices, the number of sellers, technology, sellers’ expectations, prices of related goods in production, and government taxes, subsidies and regulation. Remember them as INTER-G.

Also called: INTER-G, determinants of supply

Watch it happen step by step Taught in: The Supply Curve

Related terms

Shift of the curve Demand shifters

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