Quiz for:
7.2 Understanding Market Externalities and Efficiency

Question 1

What typically maximizes gains from trade in a market?

Question 2

How can external costs affect market efficiency?

Question 3

What are private costs in the context of externalities?

Question 4

What is meant by 'social benefits'?

Question 5

What results when consumption exceeds the socially optimal level due to externalities?

Question 6

What defines an externality?

Question 7

What results in a market when externalities are not efficiently managed?

Question 8

In the case study of a roommate's loud music, where is the optimal consumption point for the roommate?

Question 9

What's often required to achieve a socially efficient market outcome?

Question 10

In the context of antibiotics, what is a potential risk as a negative externality?

Question 11

How are negative externalities typically addressed in markets?

Question 12

Why does increased taco demand not result in inefficiency?

Question 13

Which of the following is an example of a negative externality?

Question 14

What defines a 'marginal social cost'?

Question 15

What represents societal loss in a market with more music consumption than socially optimal?