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How a natural disaster affects supply and demand in a market

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Suppose you are asked to do a market analysis in an area in which a natural disaster has recently occurred. For example, Nashville after the Spring floods or New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Other than building supplies, choose a market for a good or service that will be affected. Will demand or supply be affected? What happens to equilibrium prices and output in this market?

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An example of how supply and demand for restaurant meals will be affected by a natural disaster.

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A market that will be affected in an area hit by a disaster is restaurant meals. People in the affected area will want to buy their food quickly and cheaply at supermarkets, not sit down for a slow, expensive ...

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