Variables typically included in a multivariate supply function (other than the price and quantity of the item the supply function represents) are prices of other goods that use similar input resources for production, expectations, the number of suppliers, techniques of production, taxes and subsidies, and prices of input resources, weather.  Please answer the following questions about the affect changes in other variables might have on the supply of the item.  These changes will either cause supply to increase (shift right) or decrease (shift left).  Use either word as applicable, for the short answer.   If there is an increase in the number of producers of the item being considered, then the supply of it is likely to:     A tariff is a form of trade restriction (that behaves much like a tax).  Suppose the United States removes a high tariff on imported broccoli that had been in effect for a long time.  How should this affect the supply of imported broccoli?     A decrease in a government-provided subsidy of the item being considered is likely to ___________its supply.

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Variables typically included in a multivariate supply function (other than the price and quantity of the item the supply function represents) are prices of other goods that use similar input resources for production, expectations, the number of suppliers, techniques of production, taxes and subsidies, and prices of input resources, weather.  Please answer the following questions about the affect changes in other variables might have on the supply of the item.  These changes will either cause supply to increase (shift right) or decrease (shift left).  Use either word as applicable, for the short answer.

 

  1. If there is an increase in the number of producers of the item being considered, then the supply of it is likely to:

 

 

  1. A tariff is a form of trade restriction (that behaves much like a tax).  Suppose the United States removes a high tariff on imported broccoli that had been in effect for a long time.  How should this affect the supply of imported broccoli?

 

 

  1. A decrease in a government-provided subsidy of the item being considered is likely to ___________its supply.

 

  1. If the price of an input resource decreases (and there are no cheaper substitutes for the resource) then producers of the item are likely to _____________ its supply?

 

 

  1. Suppose broccoli growers have successfully lobbied Congress for a crop subsidy.  Once the subsidy becomes available, the domestic broccoli supply is likely to:

 

 

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