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Economics Midterm
Ch. 4
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Economics
Undergraduate 3
10/24/2008

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Price ceiling
Definition
A legally determined maximum price that sellers may charge.
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Price floor
Definition
A legally determined minimum that sellers may receive.
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Consumer surplus
Definition
The difference between the highest price a consumer is willing to pay and the price the consumer actually pays.
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Marginal benefit
Definition
The additional benefit to a consumer from consuming one more unit of a good or service.
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Marginal cost
Definition
The additional cost to a firm of producing one more unit of a good or service.
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Producer surplus
Definition
The difference between the lowest price a firm would be willing to accept and the price it actually receives.
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Economic surplus
Definition
The sum of consumer surplus and producer surplus.
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Deadweight loss
Definition
The reduction in economic surplus resulting from a market not being in competitive equilibrium.
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Economic efficiency
Definition
A market outcome to which the marginal benefit to consumers of the last unit produced is equal to its marginal cost of production and in which the sum of consumer surplus and producer surplus is at a maximum.
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Black market
Definition
A market in which buying and selling take place at prices that violate government price regulations.
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Tax incidence
Definition
The actual division of the burden of a tax between buyers and sellers in a market.
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