Question 7
During Lionel Messi’s tour of India, physical stadium seating was strictly capped, so organizers sold digital streaming passes. Multiple platforms offered the identical, high-definition stream at a standard price of ₹500.
Platform A decided to test its pricing power and raised its digital pass price by 1% (from ₹500 to ₹505). As a result, fans immediately migrated to competing platforms offering the exact same stream at ₹500, causing Platform A's sales to drop from 10,000 passes to 0 passes (a 100% decline).
Calculate the Price Elasticity of Demand (Ed) for Platform A's passes:
Ed = 0; Demand is Perfectly Inelastic
Ed = 1; Demand is Unitary Elastic
Ed = 100; Demand is Highly Elastic (approaching Perfectly Elastic)
Ed = 0.01; Demand is Inelastic