Questions tagged [producer-surplus]
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Why is a contractor's profit considered a producer surplus instead of being complementary with marginal utility? [closed]
Do economists currently not view contractors as labor?
I suggest producer surplus be exclusively exclusive material (for otherwise even mining and logging would not need withstand fixed-startup costs ...
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Upward sloping demand curves can’t exist!
How can upward sloping demand curves exist given that consumer surplus will always be negative?
So, why would a person ever buy a positive quantity?
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What is the producer surplus given the price the consumer paid + price they are willing to pay, and the marginal cost of producing the product?
Linda is willing to pay $6 for a cereal box. Linda bought a cereal box for $4. The marginal cost of producing that cereal box ...
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Consumer Surplus [closed]
Is there a case where the consumer surplus being negative does not mean that the producer surplus increases? Is it true that as consumer surplus increases, producer surplus decreases and vice versa?
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Calculating Consumer Surplus Given Table
Can someone help me? The answer is supposed to be 36 but I have no idea how they got that answer. Can someone explain why consumer surplus is 36 in this instance? Thanks!
Refer to Table below. If the ...
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How do you show welfare changes with limited entry versus perfect competition?
In Perloff's intermediate microeconomics book, he explains that producer surplus will increase with policies that limit entry. I get this intuitively - if we limit competition, producers will earn ...
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Perfectly Inelastic Supply curve and Producer margin [duplicate]
If the supply curve is perfectly inelastic then it is vertical as no matter what the price is supply will be same. Producer surplus is area below equilibrium price and above supply curve. so in case ...
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Real world evidence that voluntary exchange is mutually beneficial?
The other day I was having a debate with a supporter of high taxes. I decided to argue against this by explaining the concept of the deadweight loss of taxation. In order to do so, I started with ...
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What are the (immediate) effects of changing a good's price on consumer and producer surplus?
Basically, I'm trying to understand why the total surplus is maximized at the equilibrium and what happens if the price isn't at the equilibrium.
Say the price of a good is the equilibrium price. ...
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Can a monopoly INCREASE the market surplus compared with a competitive market?
Monopolies are often blamed for DWLs(Dead Weight Losses), while competitive markets believed to work without DWLs (assuming zero taxes/subsidies and zero externalities).
But I think I found an ...
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consumer and producer surplus
So, I am trying to evaluate the consumer and producer surplus. In my notes it is written that the new consumer surplus (defined by the change of the graph from pre-subsidy to post-subsidy) is G + A + ...
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Calculate deadweight loss from cost and inverse demand function in monopoly [closed]
Consider a monopolist with inverse demand p = 200 - 2*q. The firm's total cost function is C(q) = 100 + 20*q. What is the deadweight loss of monopoly?
To my understading, since we don't have any ...
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To what extent are renewables like solar driving down the cost of oil?
The price of oil has declined by roughly 66% in the past couple of years, and a lot of people want to know why:
Some people are saying that the recent trend of oil prices dropping means the global ...
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Change in Welfare from an Incentive based Supply Restriction
My question is related to the following graph:
The supporting example is given with regard to a policy of an acreage limitation program to provide incentive for farmers to leave fields fallow.
Why ...
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Real life producer surplus
I'd like to ask a question about producer surplus. Basically I got the concept and how we calculate when a demand or price changes on a graph, but I cannot figure out how I should apply to real life.
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Equilibrium price and quantity - consumer and producer surplus
Inverse function of market demand for certain good is equal to $P=100-0.25Q$, inverse supply function is $P=20+0.55Q$. Calculate equilibrium price and quantity. Furthermore calculate consumer and ...
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Is there a class of demand functions that deliver equal surplus to consumers and a monopolist?
Consider a market with a monopolist firm that has zero marginal cost and faces demand $D(p;\mathbf{a})$, where $\mathbf{a}$ is a vector of parameters and $p$ is the price. The monopolist maximizes ...
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