Market Structures and Firm Behavior · Microeconomics

Market Failures and Externalities

Analyzing situations where the market fails to allocate resources efficiently, such as pollution.

Key Questions

  1. 1Who benefits and who bears the costs when a factory pollutes a river?
  2. 2How can government policy internalize a negative externality?
  3. 3Why are public goods under-produced by the private sector?

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

ON: The Role of Government in the Economy - Grade 12ON: Market Models and Economic Structures - Grade 12
Grade: Grade 12
Subject: Economics
Unit: Market Structures and Firm Behavior
Period: Microeconomics

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