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A: Price ceiling is a legal maximum on price at which goods can be sold.
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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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A: "When government sets the price below the market price it represents a price ceiling."
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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: Would consumers have to pay the price for increasing minimum wage?
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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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- 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 are factors that affect demand and supply?What would cause a decrease in quantity supplied?
- What is the difference between rationing and economic queuing?Provide examples and/or latest news or updates of the supply and demand in USASerious 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? Describe
