ECO201: Question 1 Rice is a Staple food in Many Asian Economies and many Farmers Depend on Growing and Selling Rice for a living: Managerial Economics Assignment, SUSS, Singapore

Question 1

A. Rice is a staple food in many Asian economies and many farmers depend on growing and selling rice for a living.

i. Discuss the welfare effects when the government implements a price ceiling in the rice market to help the rice consumers. Explain your answers with a suitable rice market diagram. You will need to state the shapes of the price elasticities of the market demand and the market supply curves when you draw the rice market diagram.

ii. Discuss the welfare effects when the government implements a price floor in the rice market to help the rice producers.