A. choose a price below the market equilibrium price
B. allow the market to seek equilibrium on its own.
C. Choose any price the planner wants because the losses to the sellers (buyers) from any change in price are exactly offset by the gains to the buyers (sellers).
D. choose a price above the market equilibrium price
Related Mcqs:
- If a benevolent social planner chooses to produce more than the equilibrium quantity of a good, then ?
A. the value placed on the last unit of production by buyers exceeds the cost of production
B. the cost of production on the last unit produced exceeds the value placed on it by buyers.
C. consumer surplus is maximized
D. total surplus is maximized
E. producer surplus is maximized - If a benevolent social planner chooses to producer less than the equilibrium quantity of a good, then ?
A. total surplus is maximized
B. the value placed on the last unit production by buyers exceeds the cost of production.
C. producer surplus is maximized
D. the cost of production on the last unit produced exceeds the value placed on it by buyers.
E. consumer surplus is maximized - Suppose both buyers and sellers of wheat expect the price of wheat to rise in the near future. What would we expect to happen to the equilibrium price and quantity in the market for wheat today ?
A. The impact on both price and quantity is ambiguous
B. Price will decrease, quantity is ambiguous.
C. price will increase, quantity will decrease
D. price will increase, quantity is ambiguous.
E. Price will increase, quantity will increase - When supply exceeds demand, sellers must lower prices to stimulate sales, when demand exceeds supply, prices increase as buyers compete to buy goods. What this theory is called in economics?
A. Cost push theory
B. Supply and Demand theory
C. Fundamental theory
D. Ricardo’s theory - When a tax distorts incentives to buyers and sellers so that fewer goods are produced and sold than otherwise the tax has ?
A. caused a deadweight loss
B. decreased equity
C. generated no tax revenue
D. increased efficiency - Annual GNP growth of 6% poverty reduced by 1% point of the population Balance of payments deficit not in excess of $200 million For a planner, the above are ?
A. achieved only through socialism
B. target variables
C. bound by soft budget
D. recurrent expenditures - Which market is characterized by a small number of large buyers who control all purchases and therefore the market price of a good a service ?
A. Oligopoly
B. Grey market
C. Oligopsony
D. Green market - Utilitarianism suggests that the government should choose policies that maximize the total utility of everyone in society by ?
A. redistributing income from rich to poor because this is what the members of society would choose to do if they were behind a veil of ignorance
B. redistributing income from rich to poor because due to the diminishing marginal utility of income, taking a pound from the rich reduces their utility by less than the gain in utility generated by giving a pound to the poor
C. allowing each individual to maximize their own utility without interference from the government
redistributing income from rich to poor because this would maximize the well-being of the worst-off person in society - Unemployment benefits may increase the unemployment rate because unemployment benefits ?
A. encourage people to quit their jobs
B. reduce the cost of job search
C. enable people to quit searching for work
D. reduce the benefits of additional job searching - Refer to Exhibit 4. If a tax is placed on the product in this market tax revenue paid by the sellers is the area ?
A. C + F
B. A
C. B
D. C
