Government in a market system can increase economic efficiency by collecting taxes in order to subsidize the production of
What will be an ideal response?
goods with positive externalities.
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Suppose you like to make, from scratch, pies filled with banana cream and vanilla pudding. You notice that the price of bananas has increased. As a result, your demand for vanilla pudding would
a. decrease. b. increase. c. be unaffected. d. There is insufficient information given to answer the question.
Suppose Darby values a certain smart phone at $400 . Jake values the same smart phone at $300 . The pre-tax price of this smart phone is $250 . The government imposes a tax of $75 on each smart phone, and the price rises to $325 . The deadweight loss from the tax is
a. $150. b. $100. c. $50. d. $0.
The existence of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC):
A. increases the risk of moral hazard in the savings and loan industry. B. reduces the risk of moral hazard in the savings and loan industry. C. increases the risk that customers of savings and loans will engage in moral hazard, but reduces the risk that the lenders will engage in moral hazard. D. reduces the risk that customers of savings and loans will engage in moral hazard, but increases the risk that the lenders will engage in moral hazard.
Pollution is caused by a market failure, in an industry in which there is
A) unemployment. B) an over-allocation of resources in production. C) excess demand. D) excessive cost borne by the firm.