What is the free-rider problem? What results from the free-rider problem? What is a solution to the free-rider problem?
What will be an ideal response?
The free-rider problem occurs when people enjoy the benefits from a good or service without paying for it. The free-rider problem occurs with public goods because no one can be excluded from using them without paying for them. As a result, the free-rider problem is that the private market produces too little of these goods. To produce the efficient quantity, the government can intervene by taxing people and using those funds to pay for the public good.
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Refer to Table 11.1. If the marginal propensity to consume decreases to 0.05 (MPC = 0.05), what is the new equilibrium level of output?
A) 2,366.67 B) 3,166.67 C) 3,550.00 D) 4,750.00
Suppose the U.S. inflation rate falls while the inflation rate among the members of the European Monetary Union (EMU) holds constant. Other things equal, what will happen in the balance of payments accounts?
What will be an ideal response?
Comparative advantage is the ability to
A) perform an activity at a lower opportunity cost. B) determine who your best trading partners are. C) determine the best use of capital goods. D) convince others of the best choices to make in their own self-interest.
If a country has a $10 Trillion public debt and its average interest rate that it pays on it is 5%, then
A) its debt payments will be greater than GDP B) its interest payments on debt will be $500 billion per year C) its interest payments on debt will be higher than tax revenues D) its debt has reached unsustainable levels