4.10 KEY TERMS

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Match each of the terms on the left with its definition on the right. Click on the term first and then click on the matching definition. As you match them correctly they will move to the bottom of the activity.

Question

Willingness to pay
Individual consumer surplus
Total consumer surplus
Consumer surplus
Cost
Individual producer surplus
Total producer surplus
Producer surplus
Total surplus
Price controls
Price ceiling
Price floor
Deadweight loss
Inefficient allocation to consumers
Wasted resources
Inefficiently low quality
Black markets
Minimum wage
Inefficient allocation of sales among sellers
Inefficiently high quality
Quantity control
Quota
Quota limit
License
Demand price
Supply price
Wedge
Quota rent
a term often used to refer both to individual consumer surplus and to total consumer surplus.
the price of a given quantity at which producers will supply that quantity.
a form of inefficiency in which people who want a good badly and are willing to pay a high price don't get it, and those who care relatively little about the good and are only willing to pay a low price do get it; often a result of a price ceiling.
the net gain to an individual seller from selling a good; equal to the difference between the price received and the seller's cost.
a market in which goods or services are bought and sold illegally, either because it is illegal to sell them at all or because the prices charged are legally prohibited by a price ceiling.
the price of a given quantity at which consumers will demand that quantity.
the minimum price buyers are required to pay for a good or service; a form of price control.
a form of inefficiency in which sellers offer low-quality goods at a low price even though buyers would prefer a higher quality at a higher price; often a result of a price ceiling.
the loss in total surplus that occurs whenever an action or a policy reduces the quantity transacted below the efficient market equilibrium quantity.
the difference between the demand price and the supply price at the quota limit; this difference, the earnings that accrue to the license-holder, is equal to the market price of the license when the license is traded.
the sum of the individual producer surpluses of all the sellers of a good in a market.
a form of inefficiency in which sellers offer high-quality goods at a high price even though buyers would prefer a lower quality at a lower price; often the result of a price floor.
a legal floor on the wage rate. The wage rate is the market price of labor.
legal restrictions on how high or low a market price may go.
an upper limit on the quantity of some good that can be bought or sold; also referred to as a quantity control.
the net gain to an individual buyer from the purchase of a good; equal to the difference between the buyer's willingness to pay and the price paid.
a form of inefficiency in which people expend money, effort, and time to cope with the shortages caused by a price ceiling.
a form of inefficiency in which sellers who are willing to sell at the lowest price are unable to make sales while sales go to sellers who are only willing to sell at a higher price.
the maximum price a consumer is prepared to pay for a good.
the lowest price at which a seller is willing to sell a good.
an upper limit on the quantity of some good that can be bought or sold; also referred to as a quota.
the maximum price sellers are allowed to charge for a good or service; a form of price control.
tefers to either individual producer surplus or total producer surplus.
the total net gain to consumers and producers from trading in a market; the sum of the consumer surplus and the producer surplus.
the right, conferred by the government or an owner, to supply a good.
the total amount of a good under a quota or quantity control that can be legally transacted.
the sum of the individual consumer surpluses of all the buyers of a good in a market.
the difference between the demand price of the quantity transacted and the supply price of the quantity transacted for a good when the supply of the good is legally restricted. Often created by a quantity control, or quota.