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Market Failure & Govt intervention

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Efficiency in markets occurs when the social optimum is achieved, where MPB = MPC, maximising society's welfare

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Efficient allocation may

not result in equitable outcomes. An efficient allocation may not be a (a)   (4 letters) allocation

3.

Which of the following statement is correct?

a)

Public Transport is a public good

b)

Related sources of market failure for merit goods are positive externalities and inequity

c)

Occupational immobility of labour is a source of market failure

d)

Public goods are goods that are rivarlrous and excludable in consumption

4.

Select answers that apply: Why do govt intervene in the context of university education?

a)

It is a Public good

b)

Positive Externalities

c)

Imperfect Information

d)

Inequity

5.

Illustrate how existence of positive externality in consumption of a good results in market failure.

6.

Complete the diagram to show how subsidy to producers would help to underconsumption of university education.

7.

What one is a correct explanation for underconsumption of university education due to imperfect information?

a)

MPBperceived > MPBactual

b)

MPBperceived < MPBactual

c)

MSBperceived > MSBactual

d)

MSBperceived < MSBactual

8.

Which of the following is not applicable to the context of used car market?

a)

Moral Hazard

b)

Asymmetric Information

c)

Adverse selection

d)

Information failure

9.

Which of the following measure is considered as signalling to counter asymmetric information?

a)

Lemon Law

b)

Universal Coverage

c)

Online Reviews

d)

Warranty of a product

10.

I am ___% familiar with this topic on market failure now. (no mark for this question. Be truthful!)

a)

0-25

b)

26-50

c)

51-75

d)

76-100