ECON 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Price Ceiling, Price Floor, Economic Equilibrium
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Price ceiling or price gap: a government regulation that makes it illegal in charge a price higher than a specified level. Price ceiling set above the equilibrium price has no effect. Price ceiling set below the equilibrium price has powerful effects on a market. Price attempts to prevent the price from regulating the quantities demanded and supplied. Rent ceiling: price ceiling is applied to a housing market. Rent ceiling set below the equilibrium rent creates: A housing shortage rent ceiling is set below the equilibrium rent. Increased search activity the time spent looking for someone with whom to do business, when price is regulated and there is a shortage, search activity increases. A black market a rent ceiling also encourages illegal trading in a black market, an illegal market in which the equilibrium price exceeds the price ceiling. Possible mechanisms when the rent is not permitted to allocate.