Explain how the market for gasoline would react to this price ceiling if a global shortage of oil sent the equilibrium price of gasoline to $3.50 a gal-lon. Would the U.S. gasoline market be efficient?
What will be an ideal response?
If the equilibrium price of gasoline is $3.50 a gallon, then a price ceiling of $3.00 a gallon results in a shortage. The quantity of gasoline demanded at $3.00 a gallon exceeds the quantity supplied. A black market is likely to develop, in which consumers buy gasoline at prices higher than the price ceiling. In addition, a great deal of additional search activity arises as drivers look for gas stations that are open and willing to sell gasoline. The market is inefficient because the marginal benefit of a gallon of gasoline exceeds the marginal cost and so there is a deadweight loss.
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Refer to Table 4-4. The table above lists the highest prices three consumers, Curly, Moe, and Larry, are willing to pay for a bottle of champagne. If the price of one of the bottles is $27 dollars, total consumer surplus will be
A) $0. B) $14. C) $26. D) $53.
The fact that a monopoly has to take the shapes of marginal cost AND marginal revenue into account when making decisions is reflected in the fact that
A) monopolies don't have a supply curve. B) monopolies don't have a demand curve. C) monopolies have the same supply curve as perfectly competitive firms. D) monopolies maximize profit.
The fraction of each added dollar of disposable income that is used for consumption is called the:
a. average propensity to consumer (APC). b. autonomous consumption rate (ACR). c. marginal consumption propensity (MCP). d. marginal propensity to consume (MPC).
The recent growth records of Japan and Hong Kong during the last fifty years indicate that a nation can grow rapidly without which of the following?
What will be an ideal response?