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nautica902

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Of the following activities, specify which ones would typically generate positive externalities, negative externalities, or no externalities:
 
  a. You decide to trade in your 1997 Cadillac for a 100 electric Nissan Leaf.
  b. Every morning while in the shower, you sing at the top of your lungs and very much off-key as long as no one else is at home.
  c. You choose to not clean up after your German Shepherd when you take him for his midnight walks around the neighborhood.
  d. After running out of space in your house, you decide to store your collection of 46 broken lawn mowers in your front yard.
  e. As you do every year, this year you get a flu shot at the local Walgreens.

Question 2

Changes in which of the following do NOT affect the natural unemployment rate?
 
  A) the quantity of money
  B) the minimum wage
  C) unemployment benefits
  D) structural change
  E) the birth rate or other demographic data


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Reply #1 on: Jun 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a and e generate positive externalities.
c and d generate negative externalities.
b does not generate externalities.

Answer to Question 2

A


nautica902

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Reply #2 on: Jun 29, 2018
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