Practice mode Market

What results when the government fixes a market price below the equilibrium level?

Correct answer A. There is excess demand

Explanation

A price held below equilibrium raises quantity demanded and lowers quantity supplied, leaving a gap of excess demand, or a shortage, that the price cannot close.

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