Price floors prevent a price from falling below a certain level.
Price ceilings cause shortages and price floors cause surpluses.
Price floors which prohibit prices below a certain minimum cause surpluses at least for a time.
However price ceiling in a long run can cause adverse effect on market and create huge market inefficiencies.
When a price floor is set above the equilibrium price quantity supplied will exceed quantity demanded and excess supply or surpluses will result.
If price ceiling is set above the existing market price there is no direct effect.
Imagine if you had to rent out the front apartment of the farm for half of what you wanted to rent because of some new law obama made.
A price floor can cause a surplus while a price ceiling can cause a shortage but not always.
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One way shortages occur is through a price ceiling.
Price ceilings which prevent prices from exceeding a certain maximum cause shortages.
Suppliers can be worse off.
Price floors and price ceilings often lead to unintended consequences.
They are forced to pay higher prices and consume smaller quantities than they would with free market.
But if price ceiling is set below the existing market price the market undergoes problem of shortage.
Consumers are clearly made worse off by price floors.
An example of a price ceiling we can use to explain the concept would be rent control.