If government implements a price floor there is a surplus in the market the consumer surplus shrinks and inefficiency produces deadweight loss.
Price floor consumer and producer surplus.
In case of producer surplus producers would have reduced the price to increase consumers demands and clear off the stock.
Economics microeconomics consumer and producer surplus market interventions.
The effect of government interventions on surplus.
However the non binding price floor does not affect the market.
Producers and consumers are not affected by a non binding price floor.
Minimum wage and price floors.
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The effect of a price floor on producers is ambiguous.
Price floors are used by the government to prevent prices from being too low.
But since it is illegal to do so producers cannot do anything.
The deadweight welfare loss is the loss of consumer and producer surplus.
In other words any time a regulation is put into place that moves the market away from equilibrium.
The market price remains p and the quantity demanded and supplied remains q.
When price floor is continued for a long time supply surplus is generated in a huge amount.
So government has to intervene and buy the surplus inventories.
Effect of price floors on producers and consumers.
Price and quantity controls.
If the government establishes a price ceiling a shortage results which also causes the producer surplus to shrink and results in inefficiency called deadweight loss.