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Feb 20, 2020 · ESPositive ExternalityThe effects on those out. de the market are good.Ther. is an external benefit.Positive externalities can result from either the consumption or the produc. both).More TerminologyExternal Marginal Benefit: The additional benefit to people outside the market when one more unit.
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Nov 22, 2023 · Externalities as a Phenomenon. Henry Sidgwick (1901) was the first economist to articulate the “spillover effects” of production and consumption. After him, Arthur C. Pigou (1932) formalized the concept of “externalities.”. Pigou’s externality theory was dominant in economics until Ronald Coase published “The Problem of Social Cost ...
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It is the analysis of thebehaviour of individual economic agentsand the aggregation of their actionsin aninstitutional framework. individual agents: typically a consumer or a firm (producer);
4.661. Lectures 4 and 5: Externalities and Peer E¤ectsDaron AcemogluMITNovember 8 and 10, 2011.General interest ove. cts of labor market externalities.Two di¤erent aspects of externalities:Externalities in (loc. ies in social environments, including schools, friendships, networks etc.Both types of exte.
- Externality:
- EXTERNALITY THEORY: ECONOMICS OF NEGATIVE PRODUCTION EXTERNALITIES
- Marginal Damage (MD):
- Negative consumption externality:
- Private marginal cost (PMB):
- Social marginal cost (SMB):
- Positive production externality:
- Positive consumption externality:
- EXTERNALITY THEORY: MARKET OUTCOME IS INEFFICIENT
- P M B =
- EXTERNALITY THEORY: GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
- PRIVATE-SECTOR SOLUTIONS TO NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES
- Internalizing the externality:
- PRIVATE-SECTOR SOLUTIONS TO NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: COASE THEOREM
- Coase Theorem (Part II): The e
- COASE THEOREM EXAMPLE
- 1) Individuals owners:
- THE PROBLEMS WITH COASIAN SOLUTIONS
- 1) The assignment problem:
- 2) The holdout problem:
- THE PROBLEMS WITH COASIAN SOLUTIONS: BOTTOM LINE
- Public-Sector Remedies for Externalities
- PUBLIC SECTOR REMEDIES FOR EXTERNALITIES: REGULATION
- 1) Initial allocation of permits:
- 2) Uncertainty in marginal costs:
- Uncertainty About Costs of Reduction
- CONCLUSION
Externalities arise whenever the actions of one economic agent make another economic agent worse or better o , yet the rst agent neither bears the costs nor receives the bene ts of doing so: Example: a steel plant that pollutes a river used for recreation Externalities are one example of market failure
Negative production externality: When a rm's production reduces the well-being of others who are not compensated by the rm. Private marginal cost (PMC): The direct cost to producers of producing an additional unit of a good
Any additional costs associated with the production of the good that are imposed on others but that producers do not pay Social marginal cost (SMC = PMC + MD): The private marginal cost to producers plus marginal damage Example: steel plant pollutes a river but plant does not face any pollution regulation (and hence ignores pollution when deciding ...
When an individual's consumption reduces the well-being of others who are not compensated by the individual.
The direct bene t to con-sumers of consuming an additional unit of a good by the con-sumer.
The private marginal bene t to consumers plus any costs associated with the consumption of the good that are imposed on others Example: Using a car and emitting carbon contributing to global warming Externality Theory
When a rm's production increases the well-being of others but the rm is not compen-sated by those others. Example: Beehives of honey producers have a positive impact on pollination and agricultural output
When an individual's con-sumption increases the well-being of others but the individual is not compensated by those others. Example: Beautiful private garden that passers-by enjoy seeing
With a free market, quantity and price are such that
cient outcome (1st welfare theorem does not work) Negative production externalities lead to over production Positive production externalities lead to under production Negative consumption externalities lead to over consumption Positive consumption externalities lead to under consumption
One aspect of the graphical analysis of externalities is knowing which curve to shift, and in which direction. There are four possibilities: Negative production externality: SMC curve lies above PMC curve Positive production externality: SMC curve lies below PMC curve Negative consumption externality: SMB curve lies below PMB curve Positive consump...
Key question raised by Ronald Coase (famous Nobel Prize winner Chicago libertarian economist): Are externalities really outside the market mechanism?
When either private negotia-tions or government action lead the price to the party to fully re ect the external costs or bene ts of that party's actions.
Coase Theorem (Part I): When there are well-de ned prop-erty rights and costless bargaining, then negotiations between the party creating the externality and the party a ected by the externality can bring about the socially optimal market quantity.
cient solution to an exter-nality does not depend on which party is assigned the property rights, as long as someone is assigned those rights.
Firms pollute a river enjoyed by individuals. If rms ignore individuals, there is too much pollution
If river is owned by individuals then individuals can charge rms for polluting the river. They will charge rms the marginal damage (MD) per unit of pollution. Why price pollution at MD? Because this is the equilibrium e cient price in the newly created pollution market.
In practice, the Coase theorem is unlikely to solve many of the types of externalities that cause market failures.
In cases where externalities a ect many agents (e.g. global warming), assigning property rights is di cult ) Coasian solutions are likely to be more e ective for small, localized externalities than for larger, more global externalities involving large number of people and rms.
Shared ownership of property rights gives each owner power over all the others (because joint owners have to all agree to the Coasian solution) As with the assignment problem, the holdout problem would be ampli ed with an externality involving many parties. THE PROBLEMS WITH COASIAN SOLUTIONS 3) The Free Rider Problem: When an investment has a pers...
Ronald Coase's insight that externalities can sometimes be internalized was useful. It provides the competitive market model with a defense against the onslaught of market failures. It is also an excellent reason to suspect that the market may be able to internalize some small-scale, localized externalities. It won't help with large-scale, global e...
Corrective Taxation Public-Sector Remedies for Externalities
In an ideal world, Pigouvian taxation and regulation would be identical. Because regulation appears much more straightfor-ward, however, it has been the traditional choice for addressing environmental externalities in the United States and around the world. In practice, there are complications that may make taxes a more e ective means of addressing...
If the government sells them to rms, this is equivalent to the tax If the government gives them to current rms for free, this is like the tax + large transfer to initial polluting rms.
With uncertainty in costs of reducing pollution, tax cannot target a speci c quantity while tradable permits can ) two policies no longer equivalent. Taxes preferable when MD curve is at. Tradable permits are preferable when MD curve is steep. Distinctions Between Price and Quantity Approaches to Addressing Externalities
Distinctions Between Price and Quantity Approaches to Addressing Externalities Uncertainty About Costs of Reduction
Externalities are the classic answer to the \when" question of public nance: when one party's actions a ect another party, and the rst party doesn't fully compensate (or get compensated by) the other for this e ect, then the market has failed and government intervention is potentially justi ed. This naturally leads to the \how" question of public n...
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Jun 19, 2020 · These four types are perfect competi tion, monopolistic competition, monopoly, and oligopol y. And studying market structure has a great importance in understanding. how firms behave according to ...
Externalities are among the main reasons governments intervene in the economic sphere. Most externalities fall into the category of so-called techni-cal externalities; that is, the indirect effects have an impact on the consumption and production opportunities of others, but the price of the product does not take those externalities into account.
