TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Principles of microeconomics - Chapter 6: Supply, demand and government policies

In this chapter you will examine the effects of government policies that place a ceiling on prices, examine the effects of government policies that put a floor under prices, consider how a tax on a good affects the price of the good and the quantity sold, learn that taxes levied on buyers and taxes levied on sellers are equivalent. | Supply, Demand and Government Policies Chapter 6 Copyright © 2001 by Harcourt, Inc. All rights reserved. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to: Permissions Department, Harcourt College Publishers, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. Supply, Demand, and Government Policies In a free, unregulated market system, market forces establish equilibrium prices and exchange quantities. One of the things government can do is to set price controls when the market price is seen as unfair to either buyers or sellers. 2 2 Price Ceilings & Price Floors Price Ceiling A legally established maximum price at which a good can be sold. (Rent Controls) Price Floor A legally established minimum price at which a good can be sold. (Price Supports for Agriculture) 4 4 Price Ceilings Two outcomes are possible when the government imposes a price ceiling: The price ceiling is not binding if set above the equilibrium price. The price ceiling is .

• Kinh tế học
• Principles of microeconomics
• Lecture Principles of microeconomics
• Controls on prices
• Price ceiling
• Price floor
• Market outcomes
• Ten principles of economics
• Scarce resources
• Scarcity implies choice
• Choice implies cost
• Thinking like an economist
• Economic models
• Circular flow diagram
• Production possibilities frontier
• The gains from trade
• Production possibilities
• Comparative advantage
• Absolute advantage
• Market forces
• Supply and demand
• Market economies
• Competitive markets
• Price elasticity of demand
• Price elasticity
• Midpoint method
• Demand curves
• Market failures
• Negative externalities
• Positive externalities
• Market inefficiency
• Public goods
• Common resources
• Types of goods
• Cost benefit analysis
• Tax system
• Federal government
• Marginal tax rate
• Budget surplus
• Costs of production
• Total revenue
• Total cost
• Opportunity costs
• Firms in competitive markets
• Average revenue
• Marginal revenue
• Sunk costs
• Monopoly resources
• Government created monopolies
• Natural monopolies
• Monopoly’s revenue
• Monopolistic competition
• Nash equilibrium
• Equilibrium for oligopoly
• Game theory
• Long run equilibrium
• Perfect competition
• Production possibility frontier
• Opportunity cost
• Rational people
• Indirect effects
• Law of demand
• Factors change demand
• Law of supply
• Market demand
• Demand intersect
• Demand determine prices
• Change in demand
• Change in supply
• Elastic demand curve
• Policy analysis with supply
• Policy analysis with demand
• Wealth creation
• Production cost
• Total surplus
• International trade
• Additional benefits of trade
• Average costs
• Break even price
• Increasing marginal costs
• Long run analysis
• Firms profit graphically
• Accounting profit
• Market effectiveness
• Monopolist pricing
• Price discrimination
• Antitrust laws
• Disruptive innovation in oligopolies
• Predatory pricing