These are two types of market failures we have studied
What are externalities and public goods?
When it comes to taxes- economists want to minimize this
dead weight loss
A numerical limit on what maximum price can be charged.
What is a price ceiling?
The government taxes goods that are *______* to maximize it revenues
relatively Inelastic
The primary reason that externalities go unresolved.
social costs are different from private costs
OR
lack of property rights
Study of Taxes on the market is called this.
What is Tax incidence
Hiking on a trail after paying a user fee is an example of this type of good.
What are club goods?
Who bears the burden of a tax?
What are Both consumers and producers
If the government levies a $1 tax on potato chips, and equilibrium price in the market goes up by $0.75, we know this is true.
Consumers pay $0.75 of the tax, and hence are more inelastic in their behavior