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A single-price buffer stock scheme, such as an ever-normal granary. As illustrated, the term "buffer stock scheme" can also refer to a scheme where the floor price and ceiling price are equal; in other words, an intervention in the market to ensure a fixed price. For such stores to be effective, the figure for "average supply" must be adjusted ...
English: A diagram illustrating a simple buffer stock scheme. With no intervention, prices fluctuate between P1 and P2. To institute a ceiling (maximum price) and floor (minimum price), the government or other party buys when the price is low, making up demand, stores the commodity, and sells when the price is high.
English: A simple diagram illustrating a single price buffer stock scheme: in good years, the government (or another party) buys excess stock, selling it back in lean years. Date 28 April 2010, 16:45 (UTC)
The benefits even extend beyond immediate economic growth. The lease payments, royalties, and taxes paid to the American people in return for the development of the nation’s resources can yield literally trillions of dollars in new government revenue. Lower energy prices can ease the burdens on household budgets.
Producer surplus (the area above the supply curve but below price) increases by area A, as domestic producers shielded from international competition can sell more of their product at a higher price. Government tax revenue is the import quantity (C2 − Q2) times the tariff price (Pw − Pt), shown as area C.
According to the economic theory behind congestion pricing, the objective of this policy is the use of the price mechanism to make users more aware of the costs that they impose upon one another when consuming during the peak demand, and that they should pay for the additional congestion they create, thus encouraging the redistribution of the ...
Wall Street kicked off the Santa Rally season on a positive note, with all major indices and sectors closing higher in a shortened session ahead of the Christmas holiday. The S&P 500 climbed 1% ...
In economics, a budget constraint represents all the combinations of goods and services that a consumer may purchase given current prices within their given income. Consumer theory uses the concepts of a budget constraint and a preference map as tools to examine the parameters of consumer choices.