Consider a free market with demand equal to Q 5 1,200 - 10P and supply equal to Q 5 20P.
a. What is the value of consumer surplus? What is the value of producer surplus?
b. Now the government imposes a $10 per unit subsidy on the production of the good. What is the consumer surplus now? The producer surplus? Why is there a deadweight loss associated with the subsidy, and what is the size of this loss?