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Q: Why is it said that convertible securities have a floor price?
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Price floors and ceilings stifle the rationing function of prices and distort resource allocation?

Economists have said that "price floorsand price ceilings stifle (prevent) the rationing function of prices and distort resource allocation." Consider what happens after a hurricane, prices are often frozen to pre-hurricane prices through "price gouging laws" to protect the consumer. Is this an example of a price ceiling or a price floor?This occurs for gasoline as well as for groceries and other products that might be in high demand after the damage of a hurricane. What is the impact in the market place of these limits?


When the percent change in price is equal to the percent change in quantity demanded then demand is said to be?

When the percentage change in price is equal to the percentage change in quantity demanded then demand is said to be unit elastic. There are 3 kinds of price elasticity of demand.


Is coal elastic or inelastic?

There are 2 different types price elasticity of demand and price elasticity of supply. If you meant to ask is demand for coal price elastic on inelastic, answer is yes, it is price inelastic. The demand for coal, is unlikely to drop much even if the price of it increases, it can be said that it is a 'necessity'. Since the quantity demanded decreases less than proportionate than the increase in price, it is said to be price inelastic.


How is elasticity of supply related to elasticity of demand?

Elasticity of supply refers to the responsiveness of guantity supplied of a commodity to changes in its own price. And the formulafor measuring elasticity of supply percentagechange in quantity supplied/ %change in price


When the quantity demanded responds strongly to changes in price demand is said to be?

elastic:elasticity is %change in q / %change in ptherefore when quantity responds strongly to price, then it is price elastic

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Price floors and ceilings stifle the rationing function of prices and distort resource allocation?

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