Which of the following does not apply to Pareto efficiency?

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1. An allocation is Pareto-efficient if no reallocation of resources would make some people _______ without making others ________?

   A. worse off; worse off B. better off; better off C. better off; worse off D. equal, unequal...

2. A competitive equilibrium is Pareto-efficient because ?

   A. Producers are price takers B. consumers and producers face the same prices C. marginal costs and benefits are equal D. prices equal marginal cost and benefit E. All of the above...

3. Concerning a government’s trade policy, all the following generally apply except ?

   A. economic downturn and recession generally result in greater protectionism B. because domestic consumers outnumber domestic producer’s policy markers usually enact Free-trade policies to satisfy the consumer majority: C. When domestic exporting companies are organized, policy tends to favor freer trade D. Policy tends to favor freer trade in countries whose imports are inputs into...

4. It is fact that there are 24 million left-handed people in the United States however most marketers do not attempt to appeal to or design products for this group because there is little in the way of census data about this is group Therefore, this groups fails in one of the requirements for effective segmentation Which of the following is most likely to apply in this case ?

   A. actionable B. substantial C. differentiable D. measurable...

5. The U.S has granted China permanent most favored nation treatment (normal trade relations) This means that the tariff schedules which apply to U.S imports from china ?

   A. have tariff rates equal to zero suggesting a free trade policy for the United States B. have lower tariff rates than the rates that apply to any other country sending goods to the United States C. have tariff rates that are identical to the rates that apply to other countries to which the U.S...

6. The advantages of audience selectivity no ad competition and personalization apply to which type of media ?

   A. Newspapers B. Television C. Direct Mail D. Radio...

7. Which of the following statements about efficiency wage theory is true ?

   A. Paying above the competitive equilibrium wage tends to cause workers to shirk their responsibilities B. Firms do not have a choice about whether they pay efficiency wages or not because these wages are determined by law C. Paying the lowest possible wage is always the most efficient (Profitable) D. Paying above the competitive equilibrium...

8. Which of the following is an example of a reason why firms might pay efficiency wages ?

   A. At equilibrium wages workers sleep when the boss is not looking because workers are not deeply concerned about being fired B. At equilibrium wages workers often quit to find better jobs. C. At equilibrium wages only minimally qualified workers apply for the job D. At equilibrium wages, workers cannot afford a healthy diet so...

9. Suppose an industry emits a negative externality such a pollution and the possible methods to internalize the externality are command-and-control policies, pigovian taxes, and tradable pollution permits. If economists were to rank these methods for internalizing a negative externality based on efficiency ease of implementation and the incentive for the industry to further reduce pollution in the future, they would probably rank them in the following order (from most favored to least favored) ?

   A. Pigouvian taxes, command-and-control policies, tradable pollution permits. B. tradable pollution permits, Pigouvian taxes, command-and-control policies C. tradable pollution permits command-and-control policies, Pigovian taxes. D. command-and-control policies, tradable pollution permits, Pigovian taxes. E. They would all rank equally high because the same result can be obtained from any one of the policies...

10. Union might increase efficiency in the case Where they ?

    A. Raise the wage for insiders above the competitive equilibrium B. Lower the wage of local outsiders C. Offset the market power of a large firm that is the dominant employer in a region D. Threaten a strike but don’t actually follow through so there are not lost hours of work...