Elasticity

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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
  • Frisch elasticity of labor supply
  • Beta coefficient
  • Yield elasticity of bond value
• Elasticity of a function, a mathematical definition of point elasticity
  • Arc elasticity

[edit] See also

• Elastic
• Elasticity as a comic book super power.

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