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Externalities CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER CHECKLIST When you have completed your study of this chapter, you will be able to 1 Explain why negative externalities lead to inefficient overproduction and how property rights, pollution charges, and taxes can achieve a more efficient outcome. 2 Explain why positive externalities lead to inefficient underproduction and how public provision, subsidies, vouchers, and patents can achieve a more efficient outcome.
EXTERNALITIES IN OUR DAILY LIVES An externality is a cost or a benefit that arises from: • Production that falls on someone other than the producer • Consumption that falls on someone other than the consumer A negative externality is a production or consumption activity that creates an external cost. A positive externality is a production or consumption activity that creates an external benefit.
EXTERNALITIES IN OUR DAILY LIVES Four types of externalities: • Negative production externalities • Positive production externalities • Negative consumption externalities • Positive consumption externalities
EXTERNALITIES IN OUR DAILY LIVES
EXTERNALITIES IN OUR DAILY LIVES
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION Marginal social cost is the marginal cost incurred by the entire society—by the producer and by everyone else on whom the cost falls. Marginal social cost (MSC) is the sum of marginal private cost (MC) and marginal external cost. MSC = MC + Marginal external cost
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION Figure 10. 1 shows the relationship between cost and output. When output is 4, 000 tons of chemicals a month: 1. Marginal private cost is $100 a ton. 2. Marginal external cost is $125 a ton. 3. Marginal social cost is $225 a ton.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION Figure 10. 2 shows inefficiency with an external cost. 1. The market is in equilibrium at a price of $100 a ton and 4, 000 tons of chemical a month is inefficient. 2. Marginal social cost exceeds. . . 3. Marginal benefit.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION 4. The efficient quantity is 2, 000 tons of chemical, where marginal social cost equals marginal benefit. 5. The gray triangle shows the deadweight loss created by the pollution externality.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION Figure 10. 3 shows how property rights achieve an efficient outcome. 1. With property rights, the MC curve that excludes the cost of pollution shows only part of the producers’ marginal cost.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION 2. The marginal private cost curve includes the cost of pollution, and the supply curve is S = MC.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION 3. Market equilibrium is at a price of $150 a ton and a quantity of 2, 000 tons of chemical a month and is efficient because… 4. Marginal social cost equals marginal benefit.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION Application of the Coase Theorem • If factories own homes and river, the rent people willingly pay decreases as the amount of pollution increases. • If homeowners own the river, factories must pay homeowners for any pollution, and the more they pollute, the more they pay. • Regardless of who owns the river, so long as someone owns it, the factories bear the cost of pollution, and the quantity of production and pollution are efficient.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION Emission Charges Emission charges confront the producers with the external cost of pollution and provide an incentive to seek technologies that are less polluting. To work out the emission charge that achieves efficiency, the regulator needs a lot of information about the industry, which is generally not available.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION Marketable Permits A marketable permit assigns to each producer in an industry an emission limit. Producers can buy and sell permits in the market. Producers with a low marginal cost of reducing pollution will sell permits and producers with a high marginal cost of reducing pollution will buy. Producers will buy and sell permits until their marginal cost of pollution equals the market price of a permit.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION Taxes Figure 10. 4 shows the effects of a pollution tax. 1. A pollution tax is imposed that is equal to the marginal external cost arising from pollution.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION The supply curve becomes the marginal private cost curve, MC, plus the tax—the curve labeled S = MC + tax. Because the tax equals the marginal external cost, the MSC curve becomes the supply curve.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION 2. Market equilibrium at a price of $150 a ton and 2, 000 tons of chemical a month is efficient because… 3. Marginal social cost equals marginal benefit.
10. 1 NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: POLLUTION 4. The government collects tax revenue shown by the purple rectangle.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE Marginal social benefit is the marginal benefit enjoyed by society—by the consumers of a good or service and by everyone else who benefits from it. Marginal social benefit (MSB) is the sum of marginal private benefit (MB) and marginal external benefit. MSB = MB + Marginal external benefit
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE Figure 10. 5 shows an external benefit. When 15 million students attend college: 1. Marginal private benefit is $10, 000 per student. 2. Marginal external benefit is $15, 000 per student. 3. Marginal social benefit is $25, 000 per student.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE Figure 10. 6 shows inefficiency with an external benefit. 1. Market equilibrium is at a tuition of $15, 000 a year and 7. 5 million students and is inefficient because … 2. Marginal social benefit exceeds … 3. Marginal cost.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE 4. The efficient number of students is 15 million. 5. The gray triangle shows the deadweight loss created because too few students enroll in college.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE Public provision is the production of a good or service by a public authority that receives the bulk of its revenue from the government. A subsidy is a payment that the government makes to private producers to cover part of the costs of production. A voucher is a token that the government provides to households that can be used to buy specified goods or services.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE Public provision Figure 10. 7(a) shows how public provision can achieve an efficient outcome. 1. Marginal social benefit equals marginal cost with 15 million students enrolled in college. 2. The efficient quantity. 3. Tuition is $10, 000 per year. 4. The taxpayers cover the remaining $15, 000 of marginal cost per student.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE Private Subsidies Figure 10. 7(b) shows how a subsidy achieves an efficient outcome of 15 million students. 1. A $15, 000 subsidy per student shifts the supply curve to S = MC – subsidy. 2. The dollar price is $10, 000 a student.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE 3. The market equilibrium is efficient with 15 million students enrolled in college. 4. Marginal social benefit equals marginal cost.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE Vouchers Figure 10. 8 shows how vouchers can achieve an efficient outcome. The MSB curve becomes the demand curve because… 1. With vouchers, buyers are willing to pay MB plus the value of the voucher.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE 2. Market equilibrium is efficient with 15 million students enrolled. 3. Price, marginal social benefit, and marginal cost are equal. 4. Tuition equals the dollar price of $10, 000 plus the value of the voucher.
10. 2 POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES: KNOWLEDGE Intellectual property rights are the property rights of the creators of knowledge and other discoveries. A patent or copyright is a government-sanctioned exclusive right granted to the inventor of a good, service, or productive process to produce, use, and sell the invention for a given number of years.