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  2. Rationing - Wikipedia

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    An example of rationing in the face of rising prices took place in the various countries where there was rationing of gasoline during the 1973 energy crisis. A reason for setting the price lower than would clear the market may be that there is a high input , which would drive the market price very high.

  3. Rationing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Ration stamps printed, but not used, as a result of the 1973 oil crisis. Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one person's allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a ...

  4. Price controls - Wikipedia

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    The rationing and price controls enforced in many countries during World War II encouraged widespread black market activity. [30] One source of black-market meat under wartime rationing was by farmers declaring fewer domestic animal births to the Ministry of Food than actually happened. Another in Britain was supplies from the US, intended only ...

  5. Price mechanism - Wikipedia

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    The price mechanism, part of a market system, functions in various ways to match up buyers and sellers: as an incentive, a signal, and a rationing system for resources. The price mechanism is an economic model where price plays a key role in directing the activities of producers, consumers, and resource suppliers. An example of a price ...

  6. Credit rationing - Wikipedia

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    Credit rationing by definition is limiting the lenders of the supply of additional credit to borrowers who demand funds at a set quoted rate by the financial institution. [1] It is an example of market failure , as the price mechanism fails to bring about equilibrium in the market .

  7. Disequilibrium macroeconomics - Wikipedia

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    Disequilibrium macroeconomics is a tradition of research centered on the role of deviation from equilibrium in economics.This approach is also known as non-Walrasian theory, equilibrium with rationing, the non-market clearing approach, and non-tâtonnement theory. [1]

  8. Price ceiling - Wikipedia

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    Another example is a paper by Sen et al. that found that gasoline prices were higher in states that instituted price ceilings. [18] Another example is the Supreme Court of Pakistan decision regarding fixing a ceiling price for sugar at 45 Pakistani rupees per kilogram. Sugar disappeared from the market because of a cartel of sugar producers and ...

  9. Black market - Wikipedia

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    The rationing and price controls enforced in many countries during World War II encouraged widespread black market activity. [58] One source of black-market meat under wartime rationing was farmers declaring fewer domestic animal births to the Ministry of Food than had actually happened. Another in Britain was supplies from the U.S., intended ...