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CoreEconomics Gerald W. Stone
Consumer Surplus and Producer
Surplus and Market Failure*
*Slides and Images: Copyright 2012, Worth Publishers Inc.
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Efficient Market Requirements
To function efficiently, a market must
exhibit the following:
• Accurate information is widely
available
• Property rights are protected
• Contract obligations are enforced
• There are no external costs or
benefits
• Competitive markets prevail
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Property Rights
Property rights: The clear
delineation of ownership of
property backed by government
enforcement.
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The Discipline of Markets
• Markets channel the self-interest of
producers and consumers into an
efficient, ordered economy.
• Markets ration the limited
resources toward those goods
society wants most.
• Prices are the signal.
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Measuring Market Efficiency
Markets are efficient: we can
measure their benefit to society by
measuring:
• Consumer surplus
• Producer surplus
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Consumer Surplus
Consumer surplus: The difference
between market price and what
consumers (as individuals or the
market) would be willing to pay.
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Producer Surplus
Producer surplus: The difference
between market price and the price
at which firms are willing to supply
the product.
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Individual Consumer Surplus
Consumer “a” is willing to pay $11
But only HAS to pay $6 (market price
= $6)
And so on…..
Consumer “a” has a
“consumer surplus”
of $5 = ($11 - $6)
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Total Consumer Surplus
Total Market
Consumer Surplus
is: • The sum of all
individual consumer
surpluses
• The area UNDER the
demand curve and
ABOVE the market
price
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Individual Producer Surplus
Producer “c” is willing to accept as
little as $4 each to supply the third
unit
But gets to collect $6 (market price =
$6)
Producer “c” has a
“producer surplus” of
$2 = ($6 - $4)
And so on….
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Total Producer Surplus
Total Market
Producer Surplus
is: • The sum of all
individual producer
surpluses
• The area UNDER the
market price and
ABOVE the supply
curve
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Market Failures
Markets are usually efficient…but
not always.
Market failure happens when a
market fails to provide the socially
optimal amount of goods and
services.
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Sources of Market Failure
Markets fail for three main reasons:
• Asymmetric information
• Problems with property rights
• There are significant external costs
or benefits
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Asymmetric Information
Asymmetric information: occurs
when one party to a transaction
knows more than the other.
Examples: Job Market
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Asymmetric Information
Asymmetric information creates two
types of market failure:
• Adverse Selection
• Moral Hazard
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Asymmetric Information
Adverse selection: occurs when
products of different qualities are
sold at the same price because of
asymmetric information.
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Asymmetric Information
• Moral hazard: occurs when an
insurance policy or some other
arrangement changes the
economic incentives and leads to a
change in behavior.
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Problems with Property Rights
There are two general cases of
market failure caused by property
right issues:
• Public goods
• Common property resources
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Public Goods
Public goods are:
• non-exclusive
• Once provided, no one person can be
excluded from consuming.
• non-rival
• One person’s consumption does not
diminish others’ benefit.
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The Free Rider Problem
Free rider: When a public good is
provided, consumers cannot be
excluded from enjoying the product,
so some consume the product
without paying.
Example: Public Broadcasting and National Public
Radio
-As many as 90% of NPR listeners “free ride”
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The Free Rider Problem
• Since no one can be excluded (regardless of
payment) some will choose NOT to pay.
• Problem: society WANTS the good and enjoys
its benefits but will not (voluntarily) pay enough
for its provision.
• Government must provide the good (and require
tax payments) to solve this “market failure.”
• On its own, the free market will not provide enough of
these goods.
• Examples: national parks, national security
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Common Property Resources
Common property resources:
Resources that are owned by the
community at large and therefore tend
to be overexploited because individuals
have little incentive to use them in a
sustainable fashion.
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Externalities
• When externalities are present, the free
market will overproduce or
underproduce the good in question.
• External cost (or negative externality):
Occurs when a transaction between two
parties has an impact on a third party not
involved with the transaction.
• External benefits: Positive externalities,
such as education and vaccinations.
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Markets with External Costs Example: if a good’s production
generates pollution, the cost of
production is artificially cheap.
Supply would shift left if
producers paid the full cost of
production.
The good with a
negative externality
will be
overproduced.
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Markets with External Benefits
• External benefits would shift the
private demand curve out (right).