When there are positive externalities associated with the consumption of a good, we can expect the market:
A. demand curve to lie above the social demand curve.
B. demand curve to lie below the social demand curve.
C. supply curve to lie above the social supply curve.
D. supply curve to lie below the social supply curve.
Answer: B
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When demand is unit elastic, an increase in price will cause total revenue to increase, stay the same, or decrease, depending on the corresponding change in quantity demanded
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to the capture hypothesis
A) regulators eventually support the views of consumers instead of the firms or the taxpayers, regardless of the reasons why the regulatory agency was established. B) regulators support the view of the regulated firms all along because that is the reason the regulatory agency was established. C) regulators eventually support the views of the regulated firms instead of the consumers or taxpayers, regardless of why the regulatory agency was established. D) regulators eventually support the views of either the firms or the consumers, but at the expense of the taxpayers, regardless of the reasons why the regulatory agency was established.
Most people who live in market-oriented economies would
a. oppose trying to block better products that lower the cost of services. b. support trying to block better products that lower the cost of services. c. oppose trying to block better products that lower the cost of labor. d. support trying to block better products that lower the cost of labor.
Quantify the cost savings associated with a cost-effective abatement allocation achieved through trading.
Suppose two point sources are discharging phosphorus into Wisconsin’sFox River and face the following abatement costs for this pollutant: Point Source 1: TAC1 = 500 + 0.35(A1)2 MAC1 = 0.7A1 Point Source 2: TAC2 = 750 + 1.05(A2)2 MAC2 = 2.1A2, where A1 and A2 represent the abatement of phosphorus effluents in pounds by Source 1 and Source 2, respectively, and TAC and MAC are measured in hundreds of dollars. Assume that the state environmental authority has set the total maximum daily load (TMDL) for the Fox River. To achieve this limit, 40 pounds of phosphorus must be abated across the two point sources. Use this information to answer the following questions.