ECON 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Cost, Marginal Cost, Marginal Utility

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24 May 2017

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Simon Fraser University

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Economics

Course

ECON 103

Professor

Nebile Barkin

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Lo1: housing market with a rent ceiling: price ceiling or price cap. 11/27/14 1:45:00 pm: government regulation that makes it illegal to charge a price higher than a specified level, price ceiling can have major effect depending on weather its imposed above or below equilibrium, price ceiling above equilibrium. This is because price ceiling does not constrain market forces: price ceiling below equilibrium. Price ceiling attempts to prevent the price from regulating the quantities demanded and supplied: rent ceiling, price ceiling applied to a housing market, rent ceiling creates. In a housing market, when rent is at eqm level the quantity of housing supplied equals the quantity of housing demanded: but at a rent set below equilibrium rent, quantity of housing demanded exceeds the quantity of housing. Increased search activity: search activity, the time spent looking for someone with whom to do business with, when a price is regulated and there is a shortage, search activity increases.

Related Questions

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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ECON 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Cost, Marginal Cost, Marginal Utility

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