Chapter 10 - Examining Externalities

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Business/Economics Quiz sobre Chapter 10 - Examining Externalities, criado por Kristen Moore em 06-04-2017.
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Questão 1

Questão
Externalities *
Responda
  • can be either benefits or costs.
  • always create extra social costs.
  • always make society better off.
  • cannot be expressed in dollar amounts.
  • are always part of private costs or private benefits.

Questão 2

Questão
For a product with an external cost, the supply curve *
Responda
  • represents the various quantities people can buy.
  • is the same as the marginal private cost curve.
  • is the same as the marginal social cost curve.
  • is the same as the marginal external cost curve.
  • is undefined.

Questão 3

Questão
For a firm, its labor costs are *
Responda
  • a marginal benefit.
  • a private cost.
  • an external cost.
  • Both answers A and C are correct.
  • Both answers A and B are correct.

Questão 4

Questão
A marginal external cost of a product is equal to
Responda
  • what the producer has to pay to hire resources to produce another unit.
  • the cost someone other than the producer incurs when another unit is produced.
  • the cost the producer incurs to produce another unit.
  • what the consumer must pay when he or she buys the good or service.
  • None of these answers describes a marginal external cost.

Questão 5

Questão
Which of the following equations is correct?
Responda
  • MC = MSC + marginal external cost
  • MSC = MC ÷ marginal external cost
  • MSC = MC + marginal external cost
  • MSC = MC × marginal external cost
  • MC = marginal external cost - MSC

Questão 6

Questão
If the marginal social cost of generating a kilowatt of electricity is $0.10 and the marginal private cost is $0.08, what is the marginal external cost?
Responda
  • $0.18
  • $0.10
  • $0.08
  • $0.02
  • $0.80

Questão 7

Questão
When a person receives a flu vaccination, the ________ is the additional benefit the person receives from getting the shot.
Responda
  • marginal private benefit
  • marginal external benefit
  • marginal social benefit
  • marginal social cost
  • marginal external cost

Questão 8

Questão
If the marginal private benefit of attending college for Shelly is $40,000 and the marginal external benefit is $15,000, she will attend college if the cost of attendance is no more than
Responda
  • $55,000.
  • $45,000
  • $40,000
  • $25,000
  • $15,000

Questão 9

Questão
If a government action is designed to achieve efficiency, then the action must have the market produce the amount of output so that the
Responda
  • marginal private cost equals the marginal private benefit.
  • marginal social cost equals the marginal social benefit.
  • marginal external cost equals the marginal external benefit.
  • marginal private cost equals the tax.
  • marginal social benefit exceeds the marginal social cost by as much as possible.

Questão 10

Questão
If all education in the United States were provided by private, tuition-charging schools,
Responda
  • too much education would be consumed.
  • too little education would be consumed.
  • the efficient level of education would be provided.
  • the government would provide both students and schools with vouchers.
  • education would no longer have an external benefit.

Questão 11

Questão
A good or service with a positive externality is one which (Choose 2)
Responda
  • everyone wants to have access to.
  • is produced in the social interest.
  • the marginal social benefit exceeds the marginal private benefit.
  • there will be overproduction of the good.
  • there will be underproduction of the good.

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