Your favorite holiday is Halloween and each year you decorate your yard with pumpkins, skeletons, and tombstones, and you install a noise machine which blasts haunting sounds 24 hours a day. It is such a spectacle that hundreds of people drive by your house each day to gawk at the display. The noise and traffic disturb your neighbors who sue you, and you are required to take down your display permanently. This is an example of

A. the free-rider problem.
B. a liability rule.
C. the Coase theorem.
D. an injunction.


Answer: D

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