Essay: Price Ceiling

Impact of Price Ceiling on Tertiary Education Market

Questions:

1.Discuss about the Effects of price ceiling on Demand and supply.

2.Discuss about the Price changes and effect on supply demand and price.

3.Discuss about the Compare the consequences of this deregulation under the assumption of elastisticity and inelasticity of supply.

4.Describe how this policy change will affect the efficiency of the tertiary education market.

5.Describe how this policy change will affect the equity of the tertiary education market.

A price ceiling occurs when a cap is put by the government to put a legal limit on the price of a particular product. In this case, the federal government of the island of Experimentia has put price ceiling on tertiary education and it has highly regulated the education sector. This is because the federal government wanted to keep the education cost to be low(Perry, 2010).

However, in order for the effective price ceiling to work the prices must be set to be below the natural market equilibrium. A shortage occurs immediately when the price ceiling is set. When a price ceiling is set by the federal government, there is more demand than there is at the prices set at equilibrium. The supply is also less than the prices at equilibrium prices thus the quantity that is demanded is more than the quantity that is in supply(Vanichjakvong, 2002). The government has put price ceiling on tertiary education so that the people cannot be exploited by paying high cost on the education services. The effect of this ceiling on demand is that it creates more demand on education and therefore stretching the resources of education facilities. The supply remains low for the tertiary education. Effects on prices are that due to the government regulation, the prices will be constant as the regulation seeks to set the prices fixed. Inefficiencies occur when the marginal benefit tends to exceed the marginal cost at the ceiling cost for the quantity supplied(Dasgupta, 2010)

Fundamentally prices affect the market. Demand and supply are affected by changes in prices of a commodity. The federal republic of Experimentia removed the price cap ceiling and this was the net effect of the market. If the prices are regulated the demand and supply will determine the net effect in quantity demanded and supplied. This is shown in that, if the demand for tertiary education is high, the prices will remain high due to many people willing to get the services or get into the schools. If the supply is high, the prices will fall as many tertiary institutions will lower their prices to attract more students or buyers in the market. The reverse will be true and the , the lower the supply the higher the prices as the demand will increase for tertiary education. The effect on prices will depend on whether the demand is high or low and whether the supply is high or low.

Market Efficiency under Different Pricing Policies

Elastic supply

This paper deals with the problems of the construction of education as an eventual discipline as well as its self-regulation, particularly at the level of its program, considering the way it has been given in Australia. The origin of the article has to do with a previous research in which the author participated and in the realization that what he calls education easily obtains the status of discipline. Not only international classifications point it this way, 2 but it is usually assumed the same in the university world, without asking more about what is and what constitutes a discipline(Forstater, 2007).

Such regulation is that made by the academic field and the applicants of such studies on the basis of the disciplinary framework. Our hypothesis also argues that not every field of knowledge taught in universities constitutes a discipline and that, as in the present case, education is a social phenomenon and not a discipline as such(Gilman, 2006).

Beyond a mere intellectual curiosity, the above has important social consequences, because it means that tertiary education, in such field of knowledge, cannot be regulated from the demand of its practitioners or from the offer of the field of producers of that area of ??knowledge, a situation that - at least in the Australian case - is deepened by aspects related to the cultural capital of the applicants of such studies, compared to other areas of knowledge or disciplines. The consequences in inelastic supply are that education will be curtailed. People will pay more due to a higher demand of tertiary education.

Efficiency in a tertiary education market will increase. Price liberalization and deregulation of government policy will lead to consumer awareness on quality education provided by the tertiary education(Gilman, 2006). School prices will be based on the quality of education that an institution provides. In this effect, many will increase the prices while other will remain at the relative prices that had been set during the cap. Due to the level of education that is provided, many will opt to go for quality education albeit high prices to get the best education. The efficiency of tertiary education in the market will be increased due to a liberal approach in pricing and deregulation. Price capping or price ceiling policy reduces efficiency in the tertiary education market while price liberalization policy increases efficiency in the tertiary education market(Peterson, 2014).

Policy changes in pricing of tertiary education ensure that market demand and supply forces comes into force(Yu, 2012). In this case , market liberalization of prices ensures that equity increases in schools that offer quality tertiary education services while those that provide less quality education reduces in equity. This is because the law of demand and supply will ensure that most students go to tertiary institutions with quality education leading to increased demand and increased prices. On the other hand, those institutions that offer less quality will see their demand fall and they will be forced to lower their education prices to entice more students to join them. Before that, equity is all equal when the price ceiling policy is put into place(Clark, 2009).

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