Explain how the market for gasoline would react to this price ceiling if the oil-producing nations increased production and drove the equilibrium price of gasoline to $2.50 a gallon. Would the U.S. gasoline market be effi-cient?
What will be an ideal response?
If the equilibrium price of gasoline is $2.50 a gallon, then a price ceiling of $3.00 a gallon has no effect on the market because it does not change the equilibrium price. The market is efficient because at the equi-librium the marginal benefit equals the marginal cost.
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