Suppose that the market equilibrium price for a medical check-up is $50, in a market in which there is no health insurance. To encourage more people to get a check-up, the local government indicates that the price of a check-up cannot be more than $40
a. Is this a price floor or a price ceiling?
b. Draw a graph to illustrate the implementation of the policy.
c. What happens to the number of check-ups in the market? Show on your graph.
d. What happens to consumer surplus in the market? What happens to producer surplus?