Five Minute Exercises > Subsidy Needed to Achieve a Quantity Target (+)

Graph of the market

Here's the market diagram.  The subsidy increases CS by A+B, costs the government A+B+C and has no effect on PS.  It thus creates DWL equal to C.

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