Role of Price: Price Mechanisms

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What are the 3 types of price mechanisms?

  • Price Signalling

  • Price Incentive

  • Price Rationing


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Define price signaling

Changes in prices providing information to producers & consumers on changes in market conditions.

  • Rising prices (higher DD): Signal to producers to expand production


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Define price incentives

Changes in prices provide incentives for producers to reallocate their scarce resources.

  • Rising prices: Give producers an incentive to allocate more resources to earn greater profits


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Define price rationing

Changes in price enable scarce resources to be allocated to those that are most willing and able to pay for it.

  • Shortage: Those most willing & able to pay will bid up prices (until Qs=Qs), and goods will be rationed among these buyers.