ECN 2110 Week 7 Quiz | Assignment Help | Baker College

ECN 2110 Week 7 Quiz | Assignment Help | Baker College

Module 7A Quiz

 

Question 1

______________________ describes a situation where a third party, outside the transaction, suffers from a market transaction by others.

 

o   Negative externality

o   Positive externality

o   A spillover

o   A market failure

 

 

Question 2

Command-and-control regulation is a body of law that

 

o   fails to consider private costs of firms.

o   specifies allowable quantities of pollution.

o   details which pollution-control technologies must be used.

o   can include both b and c.

 

 

Question 3

Which of the following would be classified as a situation where a third-party benefits from a market transaction by others?

 

o   City buying 10,000 trees for green space renewal projects.

o   Increased levels of air pollution in neighborhoods near a football stadium.

o   Allowing a mining company to use a natural lake to discharge waste.

o   Two firms trading pollution credits to avoid cutting their toxic emissions.

 

 

 

Question 4

Because of the nature of the comprehensive environmental laws adopted during the late 1960s and early 1970s by the United States government, these laws are typically referred to as ______________________.

 

o   positive regulations

o   command and control regulations

o   control and command regulations

o   negative regulations

 

 

Question 5

The refundable charge of 5 or 10 cents for returning recyclable cans and bottles works like

 

o   an incentive to throw bottles and cans in the trash.

o   command-and-control regulation.

o   a market permit program.

o   a pollution tax incentive to avoid littering.

 

 

Question 6

A public good is a good that is _____________________, and thus is difficult for market producers to sell to individual consumers.

 

o   nonexcludable and nonrivalrous

o   excludable and rivalrous

o   unexcludable or unrivaled

 

 

Question 7

Which of the following would most likely be identified as being the ultimate goal of public policies that pertain to technology?

 

o   to help inventors earn higher rates of return

o   to help inventors earn reasonable returns

o   to encourage a stream of inventions that monetarily benefit the inventor.

o   to encourage a stream of invention that benefits the whole of society.

 

 

Question 8

Which of the following circumstances would encourage I’MaPharmaCo. to increase research and development activities?

 

o   cost of financial capital is high

o   patent term expires in 20 years

o   cost of financial capital is low

o   a low rate of return is likely

 

 

Question 9

Which of the following mechanisms will increase the rate of return that can be earned by inventors of new technology?

 

o   intellectual property rights

o   government research and development grants

o   cooperative research ventures between companies

o   patents, copyrights, and each of the above

 

 

Question 10

There is a skating rink in your city that is open to anybody to use at any time. They even provide skates for people who don't own any. This is an example of a good that is

 

o   rivalrous and nonexcludable

o   nonrivalrous and excludable

o   rivalrous and excludable

o   nonrivalrous and nonexcludable

 

 

 

 

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