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Products yielding positive____________
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Increases in price reduce or increase consumer surplus. |
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difference between the actual price a producer receives (or Producers receive) and the minimum acceptable price that a consumer would have to pay the producer to make a particular unit of output available. |
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How to calculate Consumersurplus or deficiit? |
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Maximum willing paying price ( - ) Actual Market Price ( = ) Consumer surplus or deficit |
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If Ted is willing to pay a max of $1.25 for an apple and the market has them for .50c, Ted has accomplished a ___________ consumer surplus. |
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When MB > MC, there is an over or under allocation of resources |
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What do the characteristics of rivalry of private goods mean? (pg99)
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- When one person buys and consumes a product, it is not available for another person to buy and consume. Ex. When adams purchases and drinks a bottle of mineral water, it is not available for Benson to purchase |
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The combined consumer and producer surplus is maximum when the market achieves ____________. |
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The combined consumer and producer surplus is maximum when the ____________ achieves allocation efficiency. |
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____________ occur at quantities other than the competitive equilibrium quantity. |
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Deadweight losses occur at quantities other than the __________________.
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competitive equilibrium quantity |
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