3250:200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Price Ceiling, Economic Equilibrium

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Has no effect on the market outcome binding constraint- the equilibrium price is above the ceiling and is therefore illegal. In the long run, supply and demand are more price elastic, so the shortage is larger. With a shortage, sellers must ration the goods among buyers rationing mechanisms- long lines, discrimination according to sellers" biases. These mechanisms are often unfair and inef cient : the goods do not necessarily go to buyers who value them most highly. In contrast, when prices are not controlled, the rationing mechanism is ef cient (the goods go to the buyers that value them most highly) and impersonal (and thus fair) Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity. Prices are the signals that guide the allocation of society"s resources. This allocation is altered when policymakers restrict prices. Price controls often intended to help the poor, but often hurt more than help.

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1. In a competitive market, the quantity of a product produced and the price of the product are determined by

a. buyers.

b. sellers.

c. both buyers and sellers.

d. None of the above is correct.

2. Which of the following statements is correct?

a. Buyers determine supply and sellers determine demand.

b. Buyers determine demand and sellers determine supply.

c. Buyers determine both demand and supply

d. Sellers determine both demand and supply

3. The demand for a good or service is determined by

a. those who buy the good or service

b. the government.

c. those who sell the good or service.

d. both those who buy and those who sell the good or service.

4. An increase in supply is represented by

a. a movement downward and to the left along a supply curve.

b. a movement upward and to the right along a supply curve.

c. a rightward shift of a supply curve.

d. a leftward shift of a supply curve

ceruleanseal203

"Shortages, price controls, and queuesDuring the late 1980s and early 1990s, economic reforms initiated by Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev began to raise consumer incomes; however, the Soviet government continued to impose price ceilings on basic goods like food, clothing, and household goods. As higher income led to increased demand, severe shortages of many goods and long lines at all kinds of stores became common. Finally, in January 1992, a new Russian government under president Boris Yeltsin removed retail price controls on most goods. Within a month, prices more than doubled on average, and lines disappeared. Analyze these events using the supply and demand model. First draw a supply and demand diagram for some normal good such as butter. Show the market in equilibrium at a price of 1 ruble per kilo before the beginning of the Gorbachev reforms. Draw a horizontal line at that level to represent the price ceiling; no butter can be sold for more than 1 ruble per kilo. Next show the effect of rising income. Does it shift the supply curve? Does it shift the demand curve? What is the shortage or surplus at the controlled price? After the price control ends, assuming no further shift in the supply and demand curve, what happens to the price? What happens to the shortage or surplus?"

crimsongerbil60

Please explain/prove your answers. Are the following statements true or false?

A. A tax on a market with elastic demand and elastic supply will shrink the market more than a tax on a market with inelastic demand and inelastic supply will shrink the market.

B. If the government places a $2 tax in the market, the seller bears $2 of the tax burden.

C. Buyers and sellers rarely share the burden of a tax equally.

D. When a tax of $1.00 per gallon is imposed on sellers of gasoline, the supply curve for gasoline shifts upward, but by less than $1.00.

E. If the equilibrium wage is $4 per hour and the minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, then a shortage of labor will exist.

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3250:200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Price Ceiling, Economic Equilibrium

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