Price Ceilings

question 92

Multiple Choice

Price ceilings:

• A) increase the gains from trade because lower prices encourage consumers to buy more.
• B) reduce the size of the market, shrinking both consumer and producer surplus.
• C) help reduce the deadweight losses owing to taxation.
• D) increase market output to the point where consumer surplus equals producer surplus.

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