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Own-price elasticity of demand is our measure of how sensitive the quantity demanded is to changes in the price of a good or service, but what characteristics of a good or its market might be informative in determining whether demand is highly elastic or not? Perhaps the most important characteristic is whether there are close substitutes for the good in question.