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Demand Frontiers Change – But Some Not By Much

Markets change.  Demand Frontiers depict the limits of markets to absorb products based on their prices to the quantities purchased.  While some markets change rapidly (cell phones, flatscreen televisions, computers, etc.), others, especially at their limits, are slow to respond.

The market for fighters and bombers is such a market.

At its Demand Frontier, this market has changed little in 20 years.  The constant over that period changed less than 2.5%, and the slope less than 1.0%.  (Note: The F-35A, shown in a previous post, once corrected for its revised 2016 values, fell off of the Frontier).

If a market’s Demand Frontier is stable over decades, what are the chances of vastly exceeding it?  Tune in to the next post for the answer.

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Demand Frontiers

The circles in the last post represent the outermost quantity-price points for the bomber market. We call the line of best fit through them the Demand Frontier.

Demand Frontiers form for all mature markets.  They move as the products that form them change their quantities sold or prices.

What does this Demand Frontier reveal about the upcoming B-21 Bomber? (Answer in next post)

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Demand Is Not Hypothetical

Virtually all economics textbooks treat Demand hypothetically.  They strike a line to show how prices would theoretically fall as quantities increase.

In the real world, market Demand manifests itself as a series of points, with quantities (here, of bomber models) on the horizontal axis, and prices (as bomber prices) on the vertical axis, as shown below.  Note the limiting values for this market, shown in open circles.  Collectively, what do these circles represent? (Answer in next post)

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