DP Economics Questionbank
Price floors (minimum prices): rationale, consequences and examples
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20N.1.SL.TZ0.2a:
Explain the impact of a price floor on market outcomes.
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21M.1.HL.TZ2.1b:
Evaluate the effectiveness of price floors in achieving a reduction in the consumption of demerit goods.
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21M.1.SL.TZ1.2b:
Discuss the view that price floors are more effective than subsidies in providing assistance to producers in the agricultural sector.
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21M.1.HL.TZ1.1a:
Explain why governments impose price floors in the market for agricultural products.
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19M.1.HL.TZ2.1a:
Using an appropriate externalities diagram, explain why a government might decide to impose a price floor on a demerit good.
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19N.2.HL.TZ0.4b:
Using a demand and supply diagram, explain why the increase in the minimum wage might affect Cambodia’s garment manufacturing competitiveness against other countries in the region (paragraph [4]).
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19N.3.HL.TZ0.1f.i:
State one measure that the government of Nissos might take to deal with this corn surplus, following the imposition of the price floor.
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19N.3.HL.TZ0.1e.i:
Explain one possible advantage and one possible disadvantage of governments setting a price floor in agricultural markets.
- 19N.3.HL.TZ0.1f.ii: Outline why purchasing this surplus implies an opportunity cost for the government of Nissos.
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19N.3.HL.TZ0.1e.ii:
Draw and label on Figure 1 a curve that illustrates the price floor in Nissos that leads to a monthly surplus of 3 million kg of corn.
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19N.3.HL.TZ0.1f.iii:
Using Figure 1, determine the size of the decrease in monthly corn consumption following the imposition of the price floor.
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19N.3.HL.TZ0.1f.iv:
Using Figure 1, calculate the change in consumer expenditure on corn in Nissos.