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,1. Which of the following best describes the concept of "Pareto
Efficiency"?
- A. A situation where one individual can be made better off
without making anyone else worse off
- B. A situation where resources are allocated in a way that
maximizes total surplus
- C. A situation where no individual can be made better off
without making someone else worse off
- D. A situation where the government intervenes to correct
market failures
- ANS: C. A situation where no individual can be made better
off without making someone else worse off
- Rationale: Pareto Efficiency occurs when resources are
allocated in such a way that it is impossible to make any one
individual better off without making at least one individual worse
off.
, - D. To redistribute income
- ANS: B. To correct negative externalities
- Rationale: A Pigovian Tax is designed to correct negative
externalities by imposing a tax equal to the external cost of the
negative externality.
3. Which of the following market structures is characterized by a
large number of firms producing differentiated products?
- A. Perfect Competition
- B. Monopoly
- C. Monopolistic Competition
- D. Oligopoly
- ANS: C. Monopolistic Competition
- Rationale: Monopolistic competition is characterized by
many firms producing similar but differentiated products,
allowing for some degree of market power.
Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
4. The law of demand states that, all else being equal, as the
price of a good increases, the quantity demanded __________.
- ANS: Decreases
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