Write something about Covid-19 as it pertains to externalities
and market failures.
What is the market failure?
What solutions can be enacted by public policy or already are
being enacted to try and “fix” this externality.
Write something about Covid-19 as it pertains to externalities
and market failures.
What is the market failure?
What solutions can be enacted by public policy or already are
being enacted to try and “fix” this externality.
Why are externalities referred to as "market failures?" Does the
market system actually encourage this behavior? Identify two
possible solutions to externalities.
For this discussion assignment, you will be analyzing
externalities and market failures.
Name three examples of a negative externality. How do negative
externalities directly and indirectly affect your life?
Name three examples of a positive externality. How do positive
externalities directly and indirectly affect your life?
Provide a brief summary in your own words. What are your
thoughts on the articles about coal? How does this relate to
externalities and market failure?
Provide a brief summary in your own words....
Distinguish between demand-side and supply-side market failures
and the kinds of externalities that are created by each.
In your own words explain the concept of consumer surplus.
Graph it.
In your own words explain the concept of producer surplus.
Graph it.
Identify and explain efficiency (or deadweight loss) using
consumer and producer surplus.
Explain how equilibrium achieves both productive and allocative
efficiency.
QUESTION 9
Market failures occur when
economic efficiency increases.
there is an increase in demand.
externalities exist.
there is a change in quantity demanded.
Explain how market failures such as externalities might justify
economic functions of government
Distinguish between private goods and public goods and explain
the nature of the free-rider problem
Discuss the central elements of the theory of public choice
The aim of public policy is often to counteract externalities,
but the problem is that externalities are often hard to quantify.
What is congestion externality? What is the difference between the
private and social costs of travel? How does the proposed
congestion tax attempt to solve the problem of the congestion
externality?
1. Both public goods and common property
resources involve externalities.
a) Are the externalities associated with public
goods generally positive or negative? Use examples in your answer.
Is the free-market quantity of public goods generally greater or
less than the efficient quantity?
b) Are the externalities associated with common
resources generally positive or negative? Use examples in your
answer. Is the free-market use of common resources generally
greater or less than the efficient use?