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PRICE CONTROLS: Government intervention in markets in which legal restrictions are placed on the prices charged. The two basic types of price controls are price ceilings and price floors. Price ceilings are maximum prices set below the equilibrium price. Price floors are minimum prices set above the equilibrium price. Price controls imposed on an otherwise efficient and competitive market create imbalances (shortages or surpluses) which cause inefficiency. However, imposing price controls on a market that fails to achieve efficiency (due to market control, externalities, or imperfect information) can actual improve efficiency. Price controls have also be used economy-wide in an attempt to reduce inflation.
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Lesson 8: Market Shocks | Unit 3: Single Shifts
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- The four basic changes in the market caused by increases or decrease in demand or supply.
- The six steps sequence to analyze any market shock: (1) a determinant changes, (2) a curve to shifts, (3) a shortage or a surplus occurs, (4) the price changes, (5) the quantities demanded and supplied change, and (6) the market imbalance is eliminated and equilibrium is restored.
- That an increase in demand causes an increase quantity and an increase in price.
- That a decrease in demand causes a decrease quantity and a decrease in price.
- That an increase in supply causes an increase quantity and a decrease in price.
- That a decrease in supply causes a decrease quantity and an increase in price.
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AVERAGE PHYSICAL PRODUCT The quantity of total output produced per unit of a variable input, holding all other inputs fixed. Average physical product, usually abbreviated APP, is found by dividing total physical product by the quantity of the variable input. Average product, which more often goes by the shorter name average product (AP), is one of two measures derived from total physical product. The other is marginal physical product.
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IRBNE Income Received But Not Earned
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