ECON 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Price Ceiling, Price Floor, Shortage

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Controls of prices price ceiling: a legal maximum on the price at which a good can be sold. Rent control price floor: a legal minimum on the price at which a good can be sold. How price ceilings affect market outcomes: not binding price ceiling: when the price ceiling is above the equilibrium; no effect on market outcome, binding constraint price ceiling: when the price ceiling is below the theoretical equilibrium. This leads to markets to perform rational mechanisms which may be discriminatory to certain buyers of a social group. Rent control; can be regulated by not having rent control while having subsidies for the poor people. How price floors affect market outcomes: not binding price floor: when the price floor is below the equilibrium; no effect on market outcome, binding constraint price floor: when the price floor is above the equilibrium. Minimum wage policy unemployed labour increases + unemployment insurance from the government.

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QUESTION 38

You are the president of the United States. In an attempt to make gasoline prices cheaper, you have imposed a binding price ceiling on gas. What would you expect your critics to say?

	a.	The binding price ceiling will cause firms to minimize their spending on the research and development of alternatives to gasoline.
	b.	The binding price ceiling will discourage individuals from using their personal automobile to commute to work or school.
	c.	The binding price ceiling will increase the likelihood that customers obtain needed gasoline on the black market.
	d.	The binding price ceiling will encourage oil companies to deplete the resource too quickly.
	e.	The binding price ceiling will cause firms to produce only gasoline of the highest quality.

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QUESTION 39

If a firm's long-run average total costs increase as it increases its scale of production, the firm is experiencing:

	a.	increasing returns from specialization.
	b.	diseconomies of scale.
	c.	economies of scale.
	d.	constant returns to scale.
	e.	diminishing marginal product.

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QUESTION 40

A(n) __________ in the elasticity of supply or demand in a market for a good that is taxed would tend to __________ tax revenue from that tax.

	a.	increase; increase
	b.	increase; have no effect on
	c.	decrease; have no effect on
	d.	decrease; decrease
	e.	increase; decrease

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QUESTION 41

The costs of a market activity paid for by an individual engaged in the market activity are:

	a.	external costs.
	b.	social costs.
	c.	common costs.
	d.	free-rider costs.
	e.	internal costs.

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QUESTION 42

Assume that the price of rubber increased at the same time that Michael Jordan, arguably the best NBA basketball player of all time, became famous. What do you expect to happen to the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity of the basketball shoes that are promoted by Michael Jordan?

	a.	Equilibrium price will go down and equilibrium quantity will be indeterminate.
	b.	Equilibrium price will go up and equilibrium quantity will go down.
	c.	Equilibrium price will go up and equilibrium quantity will be indeterminate.
	d.	Equilibrium price will go down and equilibrium quantity will go up.
	e.	Equilibrium price will go up and equilibrium quantity will go up.

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QUESTION 43

The minimum wage law is an example of a:

	a.	price floor.
	b.	law that sets the minimum number of hours that an employee must work for wages during the week.
	c.	law that allows individual employers and employees to make free decisions.
	d.	law that requires quantity demanded to equal quantity supplied.
	e.	price ceiling.

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1.) An excise tax on a good typically reduces the net price received by the seller. (TRUE/FALSE)

2.) The burden of an excise tax on gasoline falls entirely on consumers of gasoline. (TRUE/FALSE)

3.) Rent controls are one of the few examples of a price floor in market economies. (TRUE/FALSE)

4.) Imposing a price ceiling below the equilibrium price of a good often leads to_____.

A) A greater supply of the good

B) A black market for the good

C) A rightward shift of the supply curve for the good.

D) A leftward shift of the demand curve for the good.

E) All of these

5.) Which of the following is true of price floors and ceilings?

A) Lead to the same price and quantity as in competitive market.

B) Lead to technical efficiency

C) Cause the demand curve to shift left

D) Usually result from government intervention

E) Cause the supply curve to shift right.

6.) Price ceilings often lead to black markets. (TRUE/FALSE)

7.) When minimum wage is above the equilibrium wage what occurs?

A) There will be a shortage of labor

B) There will be no effect on the number of people employed

C) There will be an increase in unemployment rate

D) There will be a decrease in unemployment rate

8.) An excise tax on a good typically reduces the price paid by the consumer (TRUE/FALSE)

9.) If a price ceiling is below the equilibrium price is imposed on a market, it will cause the quantity demanded to rise and the quantity supplied to fall. (TRUE/FALSE)

10.) Price floors often lead to black markets. (TRUE/FALSE)

11.) If an excise tax is imposed on restaurant meals what occurs?

A) Fewer meals will be produced and sold

B) More meals will be produced and sold

C) Market price of the meals will fall

D) Government tax revenue will fall.

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A.How do Minimum Wage Laws affect the equilibrium in the Labor Market?

B. For your selected product, if the government places a mandated price ABOVE the equilibrium price, how would this affect the market equilibrium?

C. Would you rather have the forces of demand and supply determine the price of gasoline, or would you prefer a government-mandated price ceiling? What problems would a price ceiling on gasoline bring in this market?

D. In conclusion, there are two different schools of thought on how to lower gasoline prices and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. One is to increase SUPPLY of oil (drilling offshore), and the other is to decrease DEMAND (finding alternatives to oil). Can you graph how these two changes will bring about lower gas prices? Which one do you support?

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