National and local governments sometimes implement price controls legal minimum or maximum prices for specific goods or services to attempt managing the economy by direct intervention price controls can be price ceilings or price floors.
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What happens when the government interferes with the market mechanism by artificially imposing a better price.
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A price ceiling keeps a price from rising above a certain level the ceiling while a price floor keeps a price from falling below a given level the floor.
Price controls come in two flavors.
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Market interventions and deadweight loss.
This section uses the demand and supply framework to analyze price ceilings.
How price controls reallocate surplus.
The next section discusses price floors.
When a price ceiling is put in place the price of a good will likely be set below equilibrium.
Price ceilings and price floors.
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The graph below illustrates how price floors work.
In other words a price floor below equilibrium will not be binding and will have no effect.
Price ceilings can also be set above equilibrium as a preventative measure in case prices are expected to increase dramatically.
How does quantity demanded react to artificial constraints on price.
Producers won t produce as much at the lower price while consumers will demand more because the goods are cheaper.
A price ceiling is a legal maximum price but a price floor is a legal minimum price and consequently it would leave room for the price to rise to its equilibrium level.
Price ceilings only become a problem when they are set below the market equilibrium price.
Rent control and deadweight loss.