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In economics, a price support may be either a subsidy, a production quota, or a price floor, each with the intended effect of keeping the market price of a good higher than the competitive equilibrium level. In the case of a price control, a price support is the minimum legal price a seller may charge, typically placed above equilibrium.
Early proposals of monetary systems targeting the price level or the inflation rate, rather than the exchange rate, followed the general crisis of the gold standard after World War I. Irving Fisher proposed a "compensated dollar" system in which the gold content in paper money would vary with the price of goods in terms of gold, so that the price level in terms of paper money would stay fixed.
Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". [1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom: [2]
A related government intervention to price floor, which is also a price control, is the price ceiling; it sets the maximum price that can legally be charged for a good or service, with a common example being rent control. A price ceiling is a price control, or limit, on how high a price is charged for a product, commodity, or service.
A nominal income target is a monetary policy target. Such targets are adopted by central banks to manage [1] national economic activity. Nominal aggregates are not adjusted for inflation. Nominal income aggregates that can serve as targets include nominal gross domestic product (NGDP) and nominal gross domestic income (GDI). [2]
Dickinson H. D. 1933 Price Formation in a Socialist Community in The Economic Journal. Dickinson, H. D. 1939 The Economics of Socialism. Hayek, F. A. 1935 Collectivist Economic Planning. Hayek F. A. 1937 Economics and Knowledge Economica V4 N13 pp. 33–54. Hayek F. A. 1940 The Competitive "Solution" Economica V7 N26 pp. 125–149. Hayek, F. A.
A price floor is a government- or group-imposed price control or limit on how low a price can be charged for a product, [1] good, commodity, or service. It is one type of price support; other types include supply regulation and guarantee government purchase price. A price floor must be higher than the equilibrium price in order to be effective ...
Target price may mean: A stock valuation at which a trader is willing to buy or sell a stock; Target pricing – the price at which a seller projects that a buyer ...