ECN 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Price Ceiling, Price Floor, Shortage

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Government policies that alter the private market outcome. Price ceiling: a legal max on the price of a good or a service: example: rent control. Price floor: a legal min on the price of a good or service: example: minimum wage. The govt can make buyers or sellers pay a specific amount on each unit bought/sold. It is a wedge between supply and demand. Also, supply and demand cannot be equal. A price ceiling above the eq"m price is not binding has no effect on the market outcome. Ceiling have to be below eq"m to be binding. The eq"m price () is above the ceiling and therefore illegal. The ceiling is a binding constraint on the price, causes a shortage. is the most you can charge for rent. People are willing to pay but there are no rentals available because of the shortage. In the long run, supply and demand are more price-elastic.

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A recent study found that the demand and supply schedules for flying disks are as follows:

Price	Quantity Demanded	Quantity Supplied
(Dollars per disk)	(Millions of disks)	(Millions of disks)
11	1	15
10	2	12
9	4	9
8	6	6
7	8	3
6	10	1

Complete the first row of the following table by indicating the equilibrium price and the equilibrium quantity of flying disks in the absence of any price controls.

Scenario	Market Price	Market Quantity	Binding or Not Binding
Scenario	(Dollars per disk)	(Millions of disks)	Binding or Not Binding
No Price Control			N/A
Price Floor
Price Ceiling

Flying disk manufacturers persuade the government that flying disk production improves scientists' understanding of aerodynamics and thus is important for national security. A concerned Congress votes to impose a price floor $2 above the equilibrium price.

Complete the second row of the previous table by indicating the new price and quantity of flying disks when Congress imposes a price floor $2 above the equilibrium price. Then indicate whether the price floor is binding or not binding.

Irate college students march on Washington and demand a reduction in the price of flying disks. An even more concerned Congress votes to repeal the price floor and impose a price ceiling $3 below the former price floor.

Complete the final row of the previous table by indicating the new price and quantity of flying disks when Congress imposes a price ceiling $3 below the former price floor. Then indicate whether the price ceiling is binding or not binding.

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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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25. Assume that the market clearing price for a shirt is $20, but that the maximum price that can be charged is $15. This is an example of a. a price control that will lead to a surplus of shirts on the market. b. a price floor that will lead to a shortage of shirts on the market. c. a price ceiling that will lead to a shortage of shirts on the market. d. markets failing to ration a fixed quantity of a good. e. none of the above.

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