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A: Price ceiling is a legal maximum on price at which goods can be sold.
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Q: What is Shortage & Surplus; graphically show and explain?
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Q: how can price controls be used to avoid prices from increasing further
A: Price controls are the controls over the price that are made by the government. It is often seen…
Q: Are modern price controls such as ceiling and floors, similar? Why or why not?
A: Price ceiling is below equilibrium price level.
Q: Give an example not in the text of how price ceilings can lead to a shortage.
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Q: How do price controls affect the market?
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Q: How does a price ceiling below equilibrium affect the market? How does a price ceiling above…
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A: "When government sets the price below the market price it represents a price ceiling."
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Q: Illustrate on a supply and demand diagram how price ceilings may distort the market outcome, and…
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Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of the price system?
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A: Quota: - it is the setting of the maximum amount of any good that can be bought and sold.
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Q: Explain why economists usually oppose controls on prices.
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Q: What are three reasons that a government might want to intervene in markets?
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Q: Define price ceiling and price floor, and give an example of each. Which leads to a shortage? Which…
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Q: What is the minimum price that producer is willing to accept for 1500 bottles?
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Q: Would consumers have to pay the price for increasing minimum wage?
A: Increasing the minimum wage changes the structure of the youth workforce. Lower-skilled teens are…
Q: Why might producers argue for a price floor if it ends up making society worse off
A: Price floor is the least legal price of a good or service. Example of price floor minimum wage rate
Q: Give some examples of how food prices have been impacted in Canada since the pandemic.
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Q: How much is the decrease in consumer's surplus as a result of Quota?
A: Consumer surplus is calculated by CS = 1/2 ( base) (hight)
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- What would cause a change in demand, and a change in supply?Why do we use straight lines on demand and supply?Create at least one graph that shows the demand curve, the supply curve, shifts in demand and/or supply curve, changes in equilibrium quantity and equilibrium price, price ceilings and/or price floors. You don’t need to look for any statistical data regarding quantities or prices for the product.
- What is the difference between rationing and economic queuing?Serious natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes cause widespread and extensive damage to buildings. As a result of a natural disaster, what would you expect to happen in the market for building supplies? DescribeCarefully explain what is happening in the following markets. Indicate the impact if any on demand, supply, price, and quantity.