Corrective taxes work by ______.

a. internalizing external costs
b. externalizing internal costs
c. subsidizing moral hazards
d. criminalizing adverse selection


a. internalizing external costs

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The self-correcting tendency of the economy means that rising inflation eventually eliminates:

A. unemployment. B. exogenous spending. C. recessionary gaps. D. expansionary gaps.

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Assume the firms in an oligopoly produce a differentiated product and are initially colluding

If each firm begins to cheat (to increase sales) by underpricing the other firms, as the amount of cheating increases, the resulting industry price and output will approach the outcome for: A) perfect competition. B) monopolistic competition. C) noncooperative monopoly. D) noncooperative oligopoly.

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