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When are price controls enacted by the government?
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When the prices are too low for sellers, or too high for buyers
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When are price controls enacted by the government?
When the prices are too low for sellers, or too high for buyers
What is meant by a price ceiling?
A legal maximum on the price at which a good can be sold
If the price ceiling is below the equilibrium price, is there a shortage or surplus of the product?
shortage
If the price ceiling is above the equilibrium price, the price ceiling has a binding effect or does not have a binding effect?
It has a binding effect
If the price ceiling is below the equilibrium price, the price ceiling has a binding constraint or does not have a binding constraint?
Does NOT have a binding effect
When there is a shortage of a good because of a price ceiling, things happen—such as, long lines, sellers selling only to friends and family, etc. Sellers must ___________________ the scarce goods among the large number of potential buyers.
Ration
When a market has no government controls, it is called a ______________ market.
Free
What do the letters OPEC mean?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
In a free market, the price serves as the rationing mechanism; and sellers can sell all they want to at the equilibrium price. True or False
True
A shortage of apartment rentals will occur when the equilibrium price is higher than the ________________________ price.
Rent control
A ___________________ is when prices are not allowed to fall below a certain level.
Price floor
If the price floor is below the _______________________ price, the price floor has no binding effect.
Equilibrium
Workers determine the supply of labor, and firms determine the _______________________.
demand
If minimum wage is above equilibrium level, the quantity of labor supplied exceeds the quantity demanded. This causes ________________________________.
unemployment
If a worker is highly skilled and his/her equilibrium wage is higher than minimum wage, the minimum wage is binding or not binding for him or for her?
NOT binding
Suppose that a tax is placed on books. If the sellers pay a majority of the tax, then we know that the
Demand is more inelastic than the supply
In a free competitive market, what is the rationing mechanism?
Price
When taxes are levied on goods, both buyers and sellers share the burden. The only difference between a tax levied on sellers and a tax levied on buyers is __________________________________________________________
A tax burden falls more heavily on the side of the market that is less elastic
Who shares more of the tax burden---the party who has more elasticity or inelasticity?
inelasticity
If a price ceiling is not binding, then
There will be no effect on the market price or quantity sold
To say that a price ceiling is binding is to say that the price ceiling
Causes quantity demanded to exceed quantity supplied
When a tax is placed on the sellers of a product, buyers pay
More, and sellers receive less than they did before the tax
What is meant by tax incidence?
The manner in which the burden of a tax is shared among participants in a market.
Suppose the equilibrium price of a new car is $35,000. The government imposes a price ceiling of $37,000 per car. As a result of the price ceiling,
Nothing is affected by the price ceiling
Welfare economics is the study of how _________________________________________
The study of how the allocation of resources affects economic well - being
Which of the Ten Principles of Economics does welfare economics explain more fully?
Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity.
A result of welfare economics is that the equilibrium price of a product is considered to be the best price because it
Maximizes the combined welfare of buyers and sellers
In a market, the marginal buyer is the buyer who would be __________________________
The first to leave the market first if the price got any higher
What does the term laissez-faire mean?
abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
"laissez-faire capitalism"
_____________________________________ is the difference between what consumers are willing to pay and the amount they actually have to pay
Consumer surplus
Markets are a good way to organize economic activity. Yes or No
yes
Consumer surplus is a good measure of economic well-being if policymakers want to respect the preferences of buyers. Yes or No
yes
The area below the price and above the supply curve measures the ______________________________ surplus in a market.
Consumer
Producer surplus is used to measure the well-being of sellers or buyers?
sellers
What tools are used by economists to study the welfare of buyers and sellers in a market? Consumer Surplus and ____________________________________________________
Economics 91325
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