What occurs when it is impossible to improve the situation of one party without imposing a cost on another?

If a firm expects that the price of its product will be lower in the future than it is today

A) the firm has an incentive to decrease supply now and increase supply in the future. B) the firm will not change supply until it knows for certain what will happen to its price. C) the firm has an incentive to increase quantity supplied now and decrease quantity supplied in the future. D) the firm has an incentive to increase supply now and decrease supply in the future.

A uniform abatement standard (AST) is also being considered across the State of California of 300 units. Use the criterion of allocative efficiency to support or refute this alternative.

Los Angeles County has the worst urban air quality across all major metropolitan areas in the United States. Automobile emissions contribute significantly to this problem. Assume the California Air Resources Board is consideringwhether to set a uniform emission standard or a regionally-based emission standard, where one standard is set for Los Angeles County and another for the rest of the state. Marginal social benefits (MSB) and marginal social costs (MSC) for the two regions have been estimated as follows: MSBabatement in LA County = 500 ?0.75A MSBabatement in the rest of California = 150 ? 0.25A MSCabatementin all of California = 0.5A, where A is the level of abatement of automobile emissions, and MSB and MSC are in millions of dollars.