What Is a Price Ceiling? What Is a Price Floor

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Essay

What is a price ceiling? What is a price floor? Give a real world example of each. What happens to the relationship between quantity demanded and the quantity supplied with an effective price ceiling? What happens to the relationship between quantity demanded and the quantity supplied with an effective price floor? What is likely to happen if there is a shortage of rent controlled apartments? What is likely to happen if there is a surplus of price supported grain?

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Definitions:

Convertible Bonds

Bonds that can be converted into a predetermined number of shares of the issuer's stock, at the option of the bondholder.

Currency Speculation

The act of buying and selling currencies with the aim of profiting from changes in exchange rates.

Market Timing

The strategy of making buy or sell decisions of financial assets by attempting to predict future market price movements, often with the goal of buying low and selling high.

Derivative Positions

Financial contracts whose value is derived from the value of an underlying asset.