The concept of latent demand is rather subtle

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DUBLIN, Ireland(Business Wire)Research and Markets( http://) hasannounced the addition of the "The 2009-2014 World Outlook for AerospaceHydraulic Fluid Power Valves" report to their offering. WHAT IS LATENT DEMAND AND THE P.I.E. The concept of latent demand is rather subtle. The term latent typically refersto something that is dormant, not observable, or not yet realized. Demand is thenotion of an economic quantity that a target population or market requires underdifferent assumptions of price, quality, and distribution, among other factors.Latent demand, therefore, is commonly defined by economists as the industryearnings of a market when that market becomes accessible and attractive to serveby competing firms. It is typically expressed as the total revenues potentially extracted byfirms The "market" is defined at a given level in the value chain. There can belatent demand at the retail level, at the wholesale level, the manufacturinglevel, and the raw materials level (the P.I.E. of higher levels of the valuechain being always smaller than the P.I.E.

of levels at lower levels of the samevalue chain, assuming all levels maintain minimum profitability). The latent demand for aerospace hydraulic fluid power valves is not actual orhistoric sales Nor is latent demand future sales. In fact, latent demand can belower either lower or higher than actual sales if a market is inefficient (i.e.,not representative of relatively competitive levels). Inefficiencies arise froma number of factors, including the lack of international openness, culturalbarriers to consumption, regulations, and cartel-like behavior on the part offirms. In general, however, latent demand is typically larger than actual salesin a country market. For reasons discussed later, this report does not consider the notion of "unitquantities", only total latent revenues (i.e., a calculation of price timesquantity is never made, though one is implied) The units used in this reportare U.S. dollars not adjusted for inflation (i.e., the figures incorporateinflationary trends) and not adjusted for future dynamics in exchange rates.

Ifinflation rates or exchange rates vary in a substantial way compared to recentexperience, actually sales can also exceed latent demand (when expressed in U.S.dollars, not adjusted for inflation). On the other hand, latent demand can betypically higher than actual sales as there are often distributioninefficiencies that reduce actual sales below the level of latent demand. As mentioned in the introduction, this study is strategic in nature, taking anaggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.If fact, all the current products or services on the market can cease to existin their present form (i.e., at a brand-, R&D specification, or corporate-imagelevel) and all the players can be replaced by other firms (i.e., via exits,entries, mergers, bankruptcies, etc.), and there will still be an internationallatent demand for aerospace hydraulic fluid power valves at the aggregate level.Product and service offering details, and the actual identity of the playersinvolved, while important for certain issues, are relatively unimportant forestimates of latent demand Step 1. Product Definition and Data Collection Any study of latent demand across countries requires that some standard beestablished to define "efficiently served". These countries are given greater weight thanothers in the estimation of latent demand compared to other countries for whichno known data are available.