pattern of demand

Even if they do not cut effective costs, they will bring about changes in patterns of demand for services.

In addition to Trim Tabs, several fund companies said that they, too, had seen such patterns of demand.

Second, households with different compositions will have different patterns of demand, even if they have the same income.

Thirdly, changing geographical patterns of demand favour Japanese manufacturers.

Both Cardinal and McKesson said they were limiting orders based on historical patterns of demand.

According to Schumpeter, the supply of new technologies is more important than the adaption to existing patterns of demand.

The effect of energy efficiency improvements will have a major influence on the changing pattern of demand in the years to the end of the century.

What, in turn, and given differing elasticities, would be the effects on inflation and the pattern of demand, including the demand for imports?

The recent back-and-forth over the Patriots represents an escalation in the pattern of demanding owners who extract lavish offers from competing cities.

Current patterns of demand at the upper end of the market are likely to continue, increasing problems of division of social groups and affordability.

Although the Fisher/Clark thesis does not entail the post-industrial argument, the two accounts offer a similar explanation for shifts in patterns of demand.

(1983), these changes led to substantial shifts in the nature and pattern of demand in eighteenth-century England prior to the main developments in machine technology.

A dual economy is the existence of two separate economic sectors within one country, divided by different levels of development, technology, and different patterns of demand.

Disagreement exists over the pattern of demand for coal, the kinds of supplies available and the best ways of meeting supply and demand.

The pattern of demand - including the rise in the share of investment (chapter 8)- ensured that industrial production rose more quickly than the output of services.

Different patterns of demand imply different demand curves for individual goods and services and determine different equilibrium prices and quantities.

However, in some sectors of manufacturing too - particularly food processing, but also such sectors as consumer electrical goods - strong seasonal patterns of demand were experienced.

In the face of changes in patterns of demand, output and competition in the mid- to late twentieth century these industries have experienced something of a decline.

Last June, the District Attorney charged Darwood and three top managers of participating in a systematic pattern of demanding and accepting kickbacks.

(On the demand side, if the pattern of demand is affected by the distribution of income, there may again be shifting of a tax on monopoly profits.)

This tool asks you a series of simple questions about your business, which cover your: patterns of demand and activity; working practices and structures; and objectives and drivers.

This strategic planning process makes use of external sources for information and the non-routine nature of the process will present an irregular pattern of demand for the information.

There are frictions in the markets for capital, labour, and products, and it may take a long time for changes in the pattern of demand to work their way through the system.

The output of all islands is raised as a result of what is believed (mistakenly) on each island to be a favourable shift in the pattern of demand in their direction.

Rapid changes in the pattern of demand for labour (across regions or industries) can also leave a residual of 'structural' unemployment in a context of intense labour shortage.