00:01
So here we're asked what a price floor is.
00:03
And just intuitively, we know that a floor is something we stand on top of, right? that's what the definition of a floor is.
00:11
So if i draw a market in terms of price and quantity and i say that we have a floor, right? the floor means that prices or wages above the level are okay, but prices and wages below that level are not okay, right? they're illegal in this case.
00:31
That's what the floor means.
00:32
So a price floor is a regulation about prices and it sets a floor for prices.
00:37
It says that prices cannot go below this floor.
00:40
A floor is something that you stand above on, right? you stand above.
00:45
So there's a whole bunch of options here, but it does not mean that sellers are artificially restricting supply.
00:51
We usually refer to that as monopoly, collusion, cartel, oligopoly.
00:57
Government is imposing a maximum legal price that is typically below the equilibrium price.
01:04
This is where you have to be careful, right? the floor is a minimum price, right? higher prices are okay.
01:13
You can stand on top of the floor, but these prices below the floor are not okay...