Please provide a real world example of positive externalities and an example of negative externalities. For either case, is the government trying to address it? If so, how? Also, is the market for nicotine products efficient? (consider the assumptions of perfect information and no externalities).
Please provide a real world example of positive externalities and an example of negative externalities. For...
• What are "market externalities," including "positive externalities" and "negative externalities? Give two examples of positive externalities and two of negative externalities. Discuss negative externalities in view of "The story of stuff" • What is "Karl Polanyi's Paradox" (not his brother "Michael Polanyi's Paradox")? Give an example. What is the "Malthusian" theory of population, and what is its underlying ideology? What are the general arguments against Malthusian theory? What is the concept of "the carrying capacity of the Earth"? What...
What are sources of market failure? Provide a real-world example What is the rationale for government intervention in economic and market activities? Briefly describe the causes of the Great Depression of the 1930s
Please provide an example of something that might have a positive externality? Please provide an example. Would this item most likely be over-produced or under-produced? What might the government do to try to correct this situation? In contrast, what is a negative externality? Please provide an example. Would this item be most likely to be over or under produce? What might the government do to try to correct this situation?
Discuss one activity that generates externalities, positive or negative, that effects you . How does its affects people and what should the government or market do to encourage or discourage that activity ?
3. Externalities and second hand smoke a. What externalities are associated with cigarette smoking? In particular, i. Are they positive or negative? ii. Are they generated through production or consumption of cigarettes? ii. Provide an example of the monetary social gain or loss from cigarettes? b. Using a supply and demand model of the market for cigarettes, model the effect of externalities i. ii. iii. What is the price and level of consumption in this market, based upon the individual...
1. Discuss two realistic examples of market interactions with externalities: one positive and one negative ones. In each of your examples is the outcome socially optimal? In each case explain how could we change incentives of the agents so that they are closer to socially optimal outcome? (25 points)
What is a price ceiling? Provide a real-world example. Who benefits from price ceilings and who is hurt by them? Overall, is the market more or less efficient after the imposition of a binding price ceiling? Explain.
Provide an example of a firm or a small business from the real world that is surviving the dynamic nature of monopolistic competition and discuss some approaches they have used (or are currently using) to compete and survive in the market. In addition, provide an example or a scenario from your personal (or professional) experience, an observation, a story that you have read, or an idea or a thought that you might have for practical, creative, and/or effective ways to...
6) Efficiency, Welfare & Externalities a) Discuss the notion of externality(s)? b) Are they good or bad from an efficiency point of view? c) Provide some everyday examples of positive and negative externalities with a brief discussion. d) What is a public good? e) Give an example of a pure public good.
Specifically answer this prompt: Have you ever experienced a negative or positive externality? Specifically identify the "consumers" and the "producers" in the market, and how you were affected by that market. Specifically explain what the positive or negative externality is, and if possible give a dollar value of that positive or negative externality. Use either government regulation or the Coase Theorem in your response and be specific on the type of regulation (e.g. taxes, subsidies, command & control). One example...