Suppose that the market equilibrium price for a medical check-up is $50, in a market in which there is no health insurance. To encourage more people to get a check-up, the local government indicates that the price of a check-up cannot be more than $40
a. Is this a price floor or a price ceiling?
b. Draw a graph to illustrate the implementation of the policy.
c. What happens to the number of check-ups in the market? Show on your graph.
d. What happens to consumer surplus in the market? What happens to producer surplus?

a. Price ceiling

b. see graph

c. Increases

d. Increases, decreases

Explanation:

a. Price ceiling is the maximum price or ceiling so to speak imposed by government for a particular commodity inorder to relieve purchase burden from the consumers.

b. Take note of the price ceiling in the graph attached.

c. Number of demanded check-ups increases, since they are now more affordable.

d. Consumer surplus increase by $10, while the producer surplus decrease by $10 ($50-$40).

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