price floor
noun[C]
ukusECONOMICS,GOVERNMENT
alowerlimitset by agovernmenton thepricethat can bechargedfor aproductorservice:
Thepricefloorhas ameasurableimpacton themarket.
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price floor
In the first graph at right, the dashed green line represents apricefloorset below the free-market price.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By contrast, in the second graph, the dashed green line represents apricefloorset above the free-market price.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Minimum wage behaves as a classicalpriceflooron labor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In this case, thepricefloorhas a measurable impact on the market.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For farmers, an increase in available information to help cooperatives work together was no substitute for thepriceflooron select crops that they demanded.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The subsidy programs give farmers extra money for their crops and guarantee apricefloor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To protect technology rents from leakage, the primary requirement is just a quotapricefloor.
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In effect, the loan rate is apriceflooron actual production.
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We need to invest in new technology and thirdly, we need to set apricefloorfor carbon dioxide.
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Norwegian exporters will have to show that their weighted average price over the three-month period does not fall below thispricefloor.
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