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Price ceilings cause shortages and price floors cause surpluses.
Price floors which prohibit prices below a certain minimum cause surpluses at least for a time.
Price floors and price ceilings often lead to unintended consequences.
One way shortages occur is through a price ceiling.
Consumers are clearly made worse off by price floors.
Some effects of price ceiling are.
They are forced to pay higher prices and consume smaller quantities than they would with free market.
When a price floor is set above the equilibrium price quantity supplied will exceed quantity demanded and excess supply or surpluses will result.
Price floors prevent a price from falling below a certain level.
A price floor can cause a surplus while a price ceiling can cause a shortage but not always.
However price ceiling in a long run can cause adverse effect on market and create huge market inefficiencies.
If price ceiling is set above the existing market price there is no direct effect.
Imagine if you had to rent out the front apartment of the farm for half of what you wanted to rent because of some new law obama made.
An example of a price ceiling we can use to explain the concept would be rent control.
Suppose that the supply and demand for wheat flour are balanced at the current price and that the government then fixes a lower maximum price.
A shortage happens when there is more of a demand for a good than there is supplied.
Suppliers can be worse off.