ECON 10010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Market Power, Externality, System On A Chip

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22 Jan 2016

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Market inefficiencies (inefficiencies occur because of poor incentives: market power. Externalities- costs or benefits of a market activity that affect a third party. Exist when a private cost/benefit diverges from a social cost/benefit. Evaluate internal costs of participation (costs paid by only the individual. Pay external costs (costs to people who do not participate in that market) participant) Social costs- internal costs + external costs of a market activity. Third party problem- occurs when those not directly involved in a market activity still experience neg or pos externalities. Social optimum- price/quantity that would exist if there were no externalities. Challenge to society bc hard to make people take full responsibility for their. We would benefit if producers/consumers considered internal and external costs, but not plausible so government makes policies that create incentives to limit pollution. If they take into account the extra costs, they won"t produce as much actions.

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In an article in the agriculture magazine Choices, Oregon State University economist JunJie Wu made the following observation about the conversion of farmland to urban development:

Land use provides many economic and social benefits but often comes at a substantial cost to the environment. Although most economic costs are figured into land-use decisions, most environmental externalities are not. These environmental 'externalities" cause a divergence between private and social costs for some land uses, leading to an inefficient land allocation. For example, developers may not bear all the environmental and infrastructural costs generated by their projects. Such market failures provide a justification for private conservation efforts and public land use planning and regulation.

Source: JunJie Wu, "Land Use Changes: Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts," Choices, Vol. 23, No. 4, Fourth Quarter 2008, pp. 6-10.

By market failure, the author means:

(i) benefiting from a good without paying for it.

(ii) a situation that occurs when one person's consumption of a unit of a good means no one else can consume it.

(iii) a situation in which the market fails to produce an efficient level of output.

(iv) a situation in which a benefit is present that affects someone who is not directly involved in the consumption of a good or service.

(v) the tendency for a common resource to be underused.

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44. The endangered species act has:

a. had no impact on the number of endangered or other economic activities

b.causeed a loss of economic activities on some private land

c. further reduced the number of endangered species

d. saved all endangered species without affecting anyone

42. Which type of property would experience pollution?

a. common property

b. private property

c. corporate property

d. property help in partnership

41. One difficulty in using voluntary transactions to internalize externalities is that:

a. people usually don't understand what real opportunity cost is and that they face

b. people are motivated by self-interest and are often unwilling to engage in a transaction that might make another person better off

c.transactions costs of coming to an agreement can be very large when numerous people are involved

d.the government will not usually enforce contracts of this type

37. If pollutants from smokestacks in a city such as Newark cause people to paint their homes and cars more frequently, this implies:

a. external costs on home and car owners

b. internal cost to home and car owners

c. external benefits to the home and car owners

d. none of the above

35. If a good is produced by firms that incur all private and external costs, the price consumers pay:

a. will be too high because the consumers end up paying all of the costs instead of the firm

b. will be too low

c. will be efficient since it includes all social costs

d. will be the correct but inefficient

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home / study / business / economics / questions and answers / Question 1 Which Of The Following Is The Best Example ... Question: Question 1 Which of the following is the best exam... Bookmark Question 1 Which of the following is the best example of a positive externality? A car company lays off 10,000 employees in order to cut costs. An individual drives a large SUV, which increases the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. An individual smokes in a restaurant, which bothers other patrons. A child is vaccinated against a disease, which reduces the probability that other children will catch the disease. 4 points Question 2 As a result of a negative externality, the market equilibrium quantity is too ______ compared to the socially optimal quantity. As a result of a positive externality, the market equilibrium quantity is too ______ compared to the socially optimal quantity. high; high. low; low. high; low. low; high. 4 points Question 3 Based on the diagram below, the deadweight loss area associated with the market equilibrium equals: Week06_graph1.jpg $10 $50 $80 $1,000 4 points Question 4 A firm's accounting profit is given by total revenue: less implicit costs. less explicit costs. less economic profit. less implicit and explicit costs. 4 points Question 5 Suppose an activity has a private cost equal to $30 and a private benefit equal to $30. The associated social cost equals $35 and the social benefit equals $30. Which of the following statements is true about this activity? There is a negative externality associated with this activity but not a positive externality. There is a positive externality associated with this activity but not a negative externality. There is both a positive and a negative externality associated with this activity. There is neither a positive nor a negative externality associated with this activity. 4 points Question 6 The Coase Theorem implies that: the efficient level of an externality is generally zero. private individuals living in market economies should not be concerned with externalities. government intervention is not always needed to arrive at the efficient level of an externality. government laws are unnecessary. 4 points Question 7 An industry in which a small number of large firms sell products that are either close or perfect substitutes is: perfectly competitive. monopolistically competitive. an oligopoly. a monopoly. 4 points Question 8 When a negative externality is present in a market: a tax can increase the level of economic surplus. the social benefits are greater than the private benefits. there is generally too little of the good produced by private markets. the government should ensure that there are zero external costs associated in all markets. 4 points Question 9 In the presence of a positive externality, the government can arrive at the socially optimal output level by: paying producers a subsidy equal to the amount of social benefits associated with the activity. charging producers a tax equal to the amount of social costs associated with the activity. paying producers a subsidy equal to the amount of external benefits associated with the activity. charging producers a tax equal to the amount of external costs associated with the activity. 4 points Question 10 The tragedy of the commons is that: too few individuals have access to high quality healthcare. common people overconsume public goods. the quality of life for lower income people is generally lower than that of higher income people. a resource with no price tends to be exploited until its marginal benefit falls to zero. 4 points Question 11 One potential remedy to the tragedy of the commons is to: never allow a single individual to consume more than one percent of the common resource. criminalize the usage of common resources. allow individuals to use a common resource as long as they receive some benefit from doing so. place a common resource under private ownership. 4 points Question 12 As a result of a positional externality: contestants have a tendency to invest in a series of mutually offsetting investments in performance enhancement. there is generally an underinvestment in performance enhancement. the market price of performance enhancement materials is too high. the quality of performance in competitive situations is lower than the socially optimal level. 4 points Question 13 Which of the following statements is true regarding health insurance? Economics shows that all health related procedures should be free to individuals because the health of an individual is priceless. Total economic surplus would be larger if individuals faced an incentive to only use services when the benefit exceeds their costs. Health maintenance organizations provide an incentive for doctors to prescribe expensive nonessential services. First dollar insurance coverage has likely had very little to do with rising healthcare expenditures since World War II. 4 points Question 14 A strategy that yields a higher payoff no matter what the other players in the game choose is known as a: prisoner's strategy. dominated strategy. dominant strategy. Nash strategy.

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