What is the equilibrium price?   How many units will be sold?   How many sellers will not engage in a transaction?

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Use the following data to answer all of the remaining questions. Consider a commodity market where the products provided by all sellers are identical.

 

A group of 12 potential buyers in this market have willingness to pay (WTP) as follows (in random order): $65, $60, $55, $80, $70, $30, $20, $55, $10, $45, $40, and $15.

 

A group of potential suppliers serving this market have wiliness to accept (WTA) as follows (also in random order): $20, $25, $30, $10, $45, $50, $55, $15, $20, $30, $40, and $60.

 

Basics

  1. What is the equilibrium price?

 

  1. How many units will be sold?

 

  1. How many sellers will not engage in a transaction?

 

  1. What is the total value created by all the transactions?

 

Sellers

  1. What is the producer’s surplus in this market for an individual seller with a WTA = $25?

  2. What is the value captured by all sellers?

 

Buyers

  1. What is the value captured in this market by an individual buyer with WTP = $80?

 

  1. What is the total consumers surplus (i.e., all buyers) in this market?

 

Value added

  1. What is the value added for the supplier with a WTA of $15?

 

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