If the government establishes a price ceiling a shortage results which also causes the producer surplus to shrink and results in inefficiency called deadweight loss.
Price floor consumer and producer surplus.
In case of producer surplus producers would have reduced the price to increase consumers demands and clear off the stock.
Producers and consumers are not affected by a non binding price floor.
How price controls reallocate surplus.
The deadweight welfare loss is the loss of consumer and producer surplus.
The market price remains p and the quantity demanded and supplied remains q.
So government has to intervene and buy the surplus inventories.
Economics microeconomics consumer and producer surplus market interventions.
The effect of government interventions on surplus.
Minimum wage and price floors.
In other words any time a regulation is put into place that moves the market away from equilibrium.
Price floors are used by the government to prevent prices from being too low.
Price and quantity controls.
The effect of a price floor on producers is ambiguous.
However the non binding price floor does not affect the market.
But since it is illegal to do so producers cannot do anything.
Price ceilings and price floors.
When price floor is continued for a long time supply surplus is generated in a huge amount.
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