A price floor is an established lower boundary on the price of a commodity in the market.
Price floor is binding when it is set.
A legal minimum price for a product.
Types of price floors.
Above the equilibrium price causing a surplus.
Setting binding price floors.
An ineffective non binding price floor below equilibrium price.
In this case the floor has no practical effect.
A non binding price floor a binding price ceiling.
A non binding price floor.
A price floor is binding when it is set.
The latter example would be a binding price floor while the former would not be binding.
Governments can set prices on certain goods artificially high and create economic disequilibrium and binding price floors on these goods through the laws they enact.
In the first graph at right the dashed green line represents a price floor set below the free market price.
Governments usually set up a price floor in order to ensure that the market price of a commodity does not fall below a level that would threaten the financial existence of producers of the commodity.
A price floor could be set below the free market equilibrium price.
The government is inflating the price of the good for which they ve set a binding price floor which will cause at least some consumers to avoid paying that price.
Note that the price floor is below the equilibrium price so that anything price above the floor is feasible.
Government laws to regulate prices instead of letting market forces determine prices price floor.
Binding price floor when a price floor is set above the equilibrium price and results in a surplus price ceiling.
A binding price floor is a required price that is set above the equilibrium price.
Price floors set above the market price cause excess supply a price floor set above the market price causes excess supply or a surplus of the good because suppliers tempted by the higher prices increase production while buyers put off by the high prices decide to buy less.
This has the effect of binding that good s market.
A legal maximum price price control.
