One reason why property rights help achieve an efficient level of pollution is because property rights
A) force the marginal private cost to equal the marginal social cost.
B) force the marginal social cost to zero.
C) force the marginal external cost to a lower level than marginal private cost.
D) eliminate marginal private costs.
E) change the marginal external cost so that they are equal to the marginal social benefit.
A
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The real cost of a decision is the opportunity cost measured in the commodities forgone.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Assume that the yen price of one U.S. dollar rises to 80 yen and that the Bank of Japan has a target exchange rate of 75 yen per dollar. As a result, the Bank of Japan will intervene in the foreign exchange market by:
a. selling U.S. dollars and buying yen. b. selling both U.S. dollars and yen. c. buying U.S. dollars and selling yen. d. buying both U.S. dollars and yen. e. buying U.S. Treasury securities.
The opportunity cost of purchasing an item is
a. the number of hours needed to earn money to buy it. b. the next best thing you could have done with the time and money spent. c. always less than the dollar value of the item. d. always equal to the dollar value of the item. e. just the time required to buy it.
Figure 5-16
Figure 5-16 shows Adam's purchases of bananas and apples when apples cost $5 each and bananas $4 each. The information implies that Adam's income
a.
must be $9.
b.
must be $20.
c.
must be $40.
d.
Adam's income cannot be determined without further information.