We've seen that when demand changes, both price and quantity change in the same direction. What happens when supply changes? While many factors can affect supply, primarily we focus on the effects of changes in production costs or changes in the market price of other outputs. We learned that an increase in production costs will shift supply back, or decrease supply. Supply will also decrease if the market price of another good sold by the same firm rises.

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