Generating electricity creates air pollution. This industry, if left unregulated, will produce at an inefficient market equilibrium because
A) there is a deadweight loss.
B) supply is not equal to demand.
C) too little output is produced.
D) the marginal social benefit is greater than the marginal social cost.
A
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All of the following are considered to be problems associated with the use of concentration ratios to measure market power except:
A) the market definitions used in their construction may be arbitrary. B) two different markets with the same concentration ratio may have very different distributions of market share among firms used to calculate the concentration ratio. C) consideration of exports and imports generally causes concentration ratios to be overstated. D) concentration ratios are often based on national statistics and may not reflect substantial concentration in a market at a more localized level.
An economy is judged efficient if
a. it is good at producing what people want. b. it produces things that people may not want but in the least wasteful way. c. produces whatever people want in a way that may not be the least wasteful. d. it is a free-market economy and not a command market.