Glossary · Micro · Market analysis and welfare
Price ceiling
A legal maximum price. If it is set below the equilibrium price it binds: buyers want more than sellers offer, a shortage appears, and the good gets rationed by queues, luck or side payments. Rent control is the classic case.
Also called: price cap, rent control
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