A price ceiling is a government or group imposed price control or limit on how high a price is charged for a product commodity or service governments use price ceilings to protect consumers from conditions that could make commodities prohibitively expensive.
How to fix binding price ceiling and floors.
The effect of government interventions on surplus.
Taxes and perfectly inelastic demand.
The video shows the impact on both producer surplus and consumer surplus.
Taxation and dead weight loss.
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Price ceilings and price floors.
For example if the equilibrium price for rent was 100 per month and the government set the price ceiling of 80 then this would be called a binding price ceiling because it would force landlords to lower their price from.
It s generally applied to consumer staples.
Example breaking down tax incidence.
The latter example would be a binding price floor while the former would not be binding.
A binding price ceiling is when the price ceiling that is set by the government is below the prevailing equilibrium price.
Percentage tax on hamburgers.
Another way to think about this is to start at a price of 100 and go down until you the price floor price or the equilibrium price.
Price and quantity controls.
Note that the price floor is below the equilibrium price so that anything price above the floor is feasible.
Price ceiling a price ceiling is a maximum amount mandated by law that a seller can charge for a product or service.
In other words a price floor below equilibrium will not be binding and will have no effect.
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