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Scenario: Developers of a new housing scheme spend money putting in roads, lighting and clearing land surrounding the scheme.

Please answer questions 4 to 7

4) The equilibrium quantity is the socially efficient quantity

a. greater than

b. less than

c. equal to

5) The private benefit curve is

a. shifts outwards to the social benefit curve

b.shifts inwards to the social benefit curve

c. remains unchanged

6) The private cost curve is

a. shifts outwards to the social cost curve

b.shifts inwards to the social cost curve

c. remains unchanged

7) The efficient output is found where the 

a. social cost and social benefit curve intersect

b. private cost and social benefit curve intersect

c. private cost and private benefit curve intersect

d. social cost and private benefit curve intersect

SCENARIO: Developers of a new housing scheme spend money putting in roads, lighting and clearing land surrounding the scheme.
(1) The type of market failure represented by the scenario is a/an
(2) The market fails in this scenario because
(3) Solution to the market failure is
(4) The equilibrium quantity is
(5) The private benefit curve is
(6) The private cost curve is
(7) The Efficient output is found where the
the socially efficient quantity.
Transcribed Image Text:SCENARIO: Developers of a new housing scheme spend money putting in roads, lighting and clearing land surrounding the scheme. (1) The type of market failure represented by the scenario is a/an (2) The market fails in this scenario because (3) Solution to the market failure is (4) The equilibrium quantity is (5) The private benefit curve is (6) The private cost curve is (7) The Efficient output is found where the the socially efficient quantity.
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