Let the following be the supply and demand for coconuts. P 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Qs 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 QD 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 Now imagine that there is a price ceiling on coconuts at $3 but in order to prevent wasting peoples' time by making them wait in line, the government hands out ration coupons to people. In order to buy a coconut you need a coupon. Assume that the number of coupons is the appropriate number to clear the market with the price ceiling (you should know what that is). Now notice that the government probably doesn't know who has the highest marginal value for coconuts so, while this will eliminate the waste from the line it will most likely not allocate the coconuts efficiently. However, we can solve this problem by allowing people to trade the coupons! So imagine that there is such a market and it is perfectly competitive. a. What will the price of a coupon be in this market? b. Draw the price ceiling graph and identify the consumer and producer surplus, and the dead weight loss. There should be an area in there which would have been the cost of the line had there been a line. Label this area "A." Who gets this surplus now?

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Let the following be the supply and demand for coconuts.

P 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Q_s 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100

Q_D 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50

Now imagine that there is a price ceiling on coconuts at $3 but in order to prevent wasting peoples' time by making them wait in line, the government hands out ration coupons to people. In order to buy a coconut you need a coupon. Assume that the number of coupons is the appropriate number to clear the market with the price ceiling (you should know what that is). Now notice that the government probably doesn't know who has the highest marginal value for coconuts so, while this will eliminate the waste from the line it will most likely not allocate the coconuts efficiently. However, we can solve this problem by allowing people to trade the coupons! So imagine that there is such a market and it is perfectly competitive.

a. What will the price of a coupon be in this market?

b. Draw the price ceiling graph and identify the consumer and producer surplus, and the dead weight loss. There should be an area in there which would have been the cost of the line had there been a line. Label this area "A." Who gets this surplus now?

Definition Definition Consumer surplus is the consumers' gain from trade. The consumer surplus is the area below the demand curve but above the equilibrium price, up to the equilibrium quantity. Producer surplus is the producer's gain from trade. The producer surplus is the area above the supply curve but below the equilibrium price, up to the equilibrium quantity. Consumer surplus is represented by Area A and producer surplus is represented by Area B.

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As per the given information, demand = supply for price $5. At this price, the QD = QS = 400.
Now as government imposes price ceiling, the price will drop to the ceiling if it is below equilibrium. Ceiling is $3. Equilibrium price is $5.

Here the equilibrium quantity is 400 units and price is $5. The green line shows the price ceiling. Hence price will drop to $3. From the table we can see, at this price, QD = 500 and Qs = 200.
Hence there arises a shortage of supply by 300 units.

a) To avoid crowd, government decides to distribute coupon. The price of coupon will be $3, equal to the ceiling.

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