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.Management Sciences
Category: Public Goods
A free rider is a person who ?
A. receives the benefits of a good but avoids paying for it.
B. pays for a good but fails to receive any benefit from the good
C. fails to produce goods but is allowed to consume goods.
D. produces a good but fails to receive payment for the good
Which of the following is an example of a public good ?
A. hot dogs at a picnic
B. Whales in the ocean
C. national defense
D. apples on a tree in a public park
When markets fail to allocate resources efficiently, the ultimate source of the problem is usually ?
A. government regulation
B. that prices are not low enough so firms over produce
C. that prices are not high enough, so people overconsume
D. that property rights have not been well established
A public good is ?
A. neither rival nor excludable
B. rival but not excludable.
C. both rival but excludable
D. not rival but excludable
A good produced by a natural monopoly is ?
A. rival but not excludable
B. neither rival nor excludable
C. not rival but excludable
D. both rival and excludable
A common resource is ?
A. not rival but excludable
B. both rival and excludable
C. rival but not excludable
D. neither rival nor excludable
Which of the following is an example of a common resource ?
A. a firework displays
B. national defense
C. iron one
D. a national park
Which of the following are potential solutions to the problem of air pollution?
A. Grant right of the clean air to citizens so that firms must purchase the right to pollute
B. Auctions off pollution permits.
C. Regulate the amount of pollutants that firms can put in the air
D. all of these answers
If a person can be prevented from using a good, the good is said to be ?
A. excludable
B. a common resource
C. a public goods
D. rival
Suppose each of 20 neighbours on street values street repairs at €3000 the cost of the street repair is €40,000 which of the following statements is true ?
A. it is efficient for the government to tax the resident €2,000 each and repair the road
B. It is efficient for each neighbour to pay €3,000 to repair the section of street in front of his/her home
C. None of these answers are true
D. it is not efficient to have the street repaired
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