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▪ Noise pollution from
construction projects
▪ Health risk to others from
second-hand smoke
▪ Talking on cell phone while driving makes the
roads less safe for others
▪ What is an externality? ▪ Why do externalities make market outcomes
inefficient?
▪ What public policies aim to solve the problem of
externalities?
▪ How can people sometimes solve the problem of
Examples of Negative Externalities
▪ Air pollution from a factory
▪ The neighbor’s barking dog
▪ Late-night stereo blasting from
the dorm room next to yours
0
greater than its value
0
10 20 25 30 Q to society.
(gallons)
Analysis of a Negative Externality
P The market for gasoline
$5
Social Market eq’m
cost
(Q = 25)
2 Demand curve shows
1
private value, the value to buyers (the prices they
are willing to pay).
0
0
10 20 25 30 Q
(gallons)
Analysis of a Negative Externality
depending on whether impact on bystander is adverse or beneficial.
Introduction
▪ Self-interested buyers and sellers neglect the
external costs or benefits of their actions, so the market outcome is not efficient.
▪ One type of market failure:
externality, the uncompensated impact of one person’s actions on the well-being of a bystander.
▪ Externalities can be negative or positive,
▪ Another principle from Chapter 1:
Governments can sometimes improve market outcomes. In presence of externalities, public policy can improve efficiency.
P The market for gFra Baidu biblioteksoline
$5
4
external
cost
Social cost = private + external cost
Supply (private cost)
3
External cost
= value of the
2
negative impact
on bystanders
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Externalities
Economics P R I N C I P L E S O F N. Gregory Mankiw
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In this chapter, look for the answers to these questions:
Social optimal quantity
cost is 20 gallons.
4
S
3
At any Q < 20,
value of additional gas
2
exceeds social cost.
D At any Q > 20,
1
social cost of the
last gallon is
1
= $1 per gallon
(value of harm
0
from smog,
0
10
20
30 Q greenhouse gases)
(gallons)
Analysis of a Negative Externality
P The market for gasoline
The socially
$5
externalities on their own? Why do such private solutions not always work?
3
Introduction
▪ One of the principles from Chapter 1:
Markets are usually a good way to organize economy activity. In absence of market failures, the competitive market outcome is efficient, maximizes total surplus.
4
S
is greater than
social optimum
Recap of Welfare Economics
P $5
4
3 $2.50
The market for gasoline
The market eq’m maximizes consumer + producer surplus.
Supply curve shows private cost, the costs directly incurred by sellers.
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