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The meaning of price controls and quantity controls, two kinds of government intervention in the markets.

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Price control:

When there is disequilibrium in the economy whether a shortage or surplus the government has to control the prices to attain the equilibrium. For this the government uses variety of price control the main of them is price ceiling and price floor.

Quantity Control:

The quantity control of the government means the government puts a restriction on certain types of goods and services that are bought and sold in the market.

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The price controls and the quantity controls are used by the governments to achieve economic efficiency in the economy. There are mainly two kinds of price control that government use: they are price ceiling and price floor. The price ceiling is the maximum price that sellers are allowed to charge for a goods and services and the price floor means the minimum price that buyers must pay for a good and services. There is also quantity controls like quota, licensing, supply price and demand price. The restriction of quota puts an upper limit for some goods that are bought and sold in the economy. Another type of quantity control is the licensing; it gives an individual to supply a good in the economy.

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