EC120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Economic Equilibrium, Price Ceiling, Price Floor
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Price controls: price ceiling: a legal maximum on the price of a good or service. Rent control: price loor: a legal minimum on the price of a good or service. Taxes: the government can make buyers or sellers pay a speciic amount on each unit bought/sold. The supply/demand model will show how each policy afects the market equilibrium: the price buyers pay, the price sellers receive, and equilibrium quanity. Apartments for rent with iniial equilibrium of and 300 people of demand. Rent control policy #1: max. rent is /month. This is a non-binding ceiling: a price ceiling above the equilibrium price. Max. price is greater than market equilibrium price. Rent control policy #2: max. rent is /month. This is a binding price ceiling: a price ceiling below the equilibrium price. Max. price is less than market equilibrium price. Shortage: 150 people (400 250 = 150) If demand supply were more elasic, shortage would be larger: shortages and raioning.