Marginal private benefit (dollars) Quantity (thousands of st…
Marginal private benefit (dollars) Quantity (thousands of student-years) 24,000 0 20,000 20 16,000 40 12,000 60 8,000 80 4,000 100 0 120 The table above provides information about the marginal private benefit for education. The marginal cost of educating a student is $16,000 per year and is constant. There is an external benefit from education that is equal to $12,000 per student year and is constant. If the government subsidizes education, how much should the subsidy be in order to attain the efficient level of enrollment?
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Consumption possibility Video games (quantity) Baseball cards (quantity) A 10 0 B 8 1 C 6 2 D 4 3 E 2 4 F 0 5 Jordan has two goods that he consumes this week. He can choose to go to the arcade and play video games or he can purchase baseball cards. The price of each video game is $.50 and each pack of baseball cards is $1. Jordan will spend all his allowance this week on these two goods. Jordan’s consumption possibilities are listed in the table above. What is the amount of Jordan’s allowance?
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Firm A can produce a unit of output with 10 hours of labor and 5 units of material. Firm B can produce a unit of output with 5 hours of labor and 10 units of material. Firm C can produce a unit of output with 10 hours of labor and 10 units of material. If the prices of labor and material are $10 per hour and $5 per unit, respectively, which of these firms is the most technologically efficient?
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f1q11g1.jpg In the figure above, originally the apartment rental market is in short run and long run equilibrium with a rental price of $600 per month. Then the government imposes a rent ceiling of $500 per month. The loss of producer surplus as a result of the price ceiling is
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