Drivers have to pay a toll to drive on certain roads. In essence, a toll is a corrective tax on the externality of __________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


congestion

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Technological efficiency, defined in terms of completely objective relationships,

A) has no useful meaning. B) influences the decisions of engineers but not of business executives. C) influences the decisions of engineers but not of economists. D) is more important in the long run than in the short run, where profitability tends to dominate decisions.

Economics

Under monopoly, a firm:

a. is a price taker. b. maximizes profit by setting marginal cost equal to marginal revenue. c. will shut down in the short-run if price falls short of average total cost. d. always earns a pure economic profit.

Economics

The sum of consumption (C), investment (I), government spending (G), and net exports (X-M) is called:

a. autonomous spending. b. aggregate expenditures. c. Keynesian income d. wealth.

Economics

If a country produces a commodity in the range of decreasing returns to scale, and the country begins to export more in a pure free trade system, the domestic price of the commodity will

a. fall. b. rise. c. exceed the price in foreign countries. d. be below the price in foreign countries. e. One cannot predict the impact on the price of the commodity.

Economics