Price and quantity controls.
Show effect of price floor on price.
It may help farmers or the few workers that get to work for minimum wage but it does not always help everyone else.
Let s consider the house rent market.
Effect of price floor.
A price floor is a government or group imposed price control or limit on how low a price can be charged for a product good commodity or service.
Reasons for setting up price floors.
Consumers never gain from the measure.
The equilibrium price commonly called the market price is the price where economic forces such as supply and demand are balanced and in the absence of external.
Effects of a price floor.
Governments usually set up price floors to assist producers.
Price floor is enforced with an only intention of assisting producers.
The effect of a price floor on consumers is more straightforward.
A price floor must be higher than the equilibrium price in order to be effective.
Minimum wage and price floors.
However price floor has some adverse effects on the market.
The effect of government interventions on surplus.
Example breaking down tax incidence.
In the end even with good intentions a price floor can hurt society more than it helps.
They may be worse off or no different.
Price ceilings and price floors.
For instance if a government wants to encourage the production of coffee beans it may establish one in.
Now the government determines a price ceiling of rs.
Government set price floor when it believes that the producers are receiving unfair amount.
However prolonged application of a price ceiling can lead to black marketing and unrest in the supply side.
If the market was efficient prior to the introduction of a price floor price floors can cause a deadweight.
Government enforce price floor to oblige consumer to pay certain minimum amount to the producers.
Taxation and dead weight loss.
3 has been determined as the equilibrium price with the quantity at 30 homes.