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What Is Deadweight Loss? Practice Questions
1. The price of a blender is $35 and the value of it to you is $30, so you do not purchase it. What is the deadweight loss?
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a. –$5.
b. $5.
c. $30.
d. There is no deadweight loss.
2. The quantity of the blender bought at the price of $35 is 300. After a sales tax of $5 is introduced, only 200 people purchase it. Is there a deadweight loss?
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a. No. The “lost” gains are passed on to government as tax revenue.
b. No. The value of the trades that do not happen is made up for by tax revenue.
c. Yes. It is the $1000 in tax revenue.
d. Yes. It is the sum of the consumer and producer surplus of the 100 trades that do not happen.
3. Suppose the same blender cost $25 to make. Its average value for the 100 customers who did not purchase it after the $5 tax was introduced is $38. What is the deadweight loss?
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a. $300.
b. $500.
c. $1300.
d. There is no deadweight loss.
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A
Absolute Advantage
Adverse Selection
Aggregate Demand
Aggregate Supply (Long Run)
Arbitrage
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Asymmetric Information
Austrian Business Cycle Theory
B
Banks
Bond Market
Budget Constraints
Business Fluctuations
Bundling
C
Capital Goods
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Common Resource
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Coase Theorem
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Consumer Surplus
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Crowding Out
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D
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Elasticity of Demand
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F
Factor Income Approach
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