无谓损失的含义是什么?为什么价格上限通常导致无谓损失?What is meant by deadweight loss? Why does a price ceiling usually result in a deadweight loss?
Suppose the supply curve for a good is completely inelastic. If the government imposes a price ceiling below the market-clearing level, would a deadweight loss result? Explain.
(1)如果P=60美元/桶,天然气的自由市场价格是多少?如果价格上限为3美元/千立方英尺,无谓损失多大?
(2)石油价格应为多少,才会得到3美元的天然气自由市场价格?
In Example 9. 1 (page 290), we calculated the gains and losses from price controls on natural gas and found that there was a deadweight loss of $ 5.68 billion. This calculation was based on a price of oil of $50 per barrel.
a. If the price of oil were $ 60 per barrel,what would be the free - market price of gas? How large a deadweight loss would result if the maximum allowable price of natural gas were $3. 00 per thousand cubic feet?
b. What price of oil would yield a free - market price of natural gas of $3. 00?
有人使用1980- 1994年度数据,研究汇率和相对价格的关系,得到如下结果:
其中,Y=马克对美元的汇率
X=美、德两国消费者价格指数(CPI)之比,代表两国的相对价格
(1)请解释回归系数的含义;
(2) X的系数为负值有经济意义吗?
(3)如果我们重新定义X为德国CPI与美国CPI之比,X的符号会变化吗?为什么?
What is meant by the“user cost”of producing an exhaustible resource? why does price minus extraction cost rise at the rate of interest in a competitive exhaustible resource market?