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Teguh Murdjijanto 0906499770 PR Mikroekonomi untuk Kebijakan Publik Dosen: M Syauqie Ashar

1. Deadweight Loss Deadweight loss merupakan ... In economics, a deadweight loss (also known as excess burden or allocative inefficiency) is a loss of economic efficiency that can occur when equilibrium for a good or service is not Pareto optimal. In other words, either people who would have more marginal benefit than marginal cost are not buying the product, or people who have more marginal cost than marginal benefit are buying the product. Deadweight loss can be beneficial when there is a negative externality, in which case it can be considered a deadweight gain, as it would help those that the negative externality was hurting. Causes of deadweight loss can include monopoly pricing (in the case of artificial scarcity), externalities, taxes or subsidies, and binding price ceilings or floors. The term deadweight loss may also be referred to as the "excess burden" of monopoly or taxation. Deadweight Loss merupakan biaya yang ditanggung masyarakat karena pasar tidak bekerja secara efisien.

2. Penetapan price ceiling 3. Deadweight loss is the inefficiency caused by, for example, a tax or monopoly pricing. The diagram below shows a deadweight loss (labeled "gone") caused by a sales tax. By causing a difference between the pre-tax price received by producers and the after-tax price paid by consumers, the government secures the area labeled Government Revenue. This revenue comes at the expense of the consumer surplus and producer surplus that would have existed

in the no tax equilibrium. The "gone" triangle of deadweight loss goes to no one because those transactions are prevented by the sales tax. This diagram is borrowed from Who Pays a Sales Tax?, which applies this concept.

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