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REM 100 Final Exam Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass) Explain the difference between weather & climate - ️️ Weather is the current state of the atmosphere, whereas climate is the statistical description of the weather at a location over a longer period of time Describe the greenhou...

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REM 100 Final Exam Practice Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)

Explain the difference between weather & climate - ✔️✔️Weather is the current state of

the atmosphere, whereas climate is the statistical description of the weather at a

location over a longer period of time


Describe the greenhouse effect - ✔️✔️The warming of the atmosphere that results due to

greenhouse gases found in the atmosphere


Define the concept of excludability - ✔️✔️Goods and services for which one can, at a low

cost, prevent those who have not paid for it to consume it


Define the concept of depletability - ✔️✔️When the consumption by one agent means

another cannot use it


What is the supply curve? - ✔️✔️The relationship between product price and the quantity

of product that a seller is willing and able to supply


What is the demand curve? - ✔️✔️The relationship between product price and the

amount that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a given price


What is the equilibrium price? - ✔️✔️The price at which suppliers are producing exactly

as much as is demanded by buyers, therefore both the supplier and the buyer is happy




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What happens when the initial price is greater than the equilibrium price? - ✔️✔️A surplus


What happens when the initial price is less than the equilibrium price? - ✔️✔️A shortage


What is a free market? - ✔️✔️When transactions between buyers and sellers are driven

by the relationship between supply and demand


What are the requirements for a free market? - ✔️✔️- large number of sellers and buyers


- perfect information about current and future prices


- all economic agents behave rationally


- market prices reflect full costs of production & consumption


- inputs & goods are individually owned and divisible


What is a regulated market? - ✔️✔️An idealized system where the government controls

the forces of supply and demand, such as who is allowed to enter the market and the

prices that are charged


What is the invisible hand? - ✔️✔️When all economic agents behave rationally/self-

motivated


What is a market failure? - ✔️✔️Describes the situation when the market does not

allocate scarce resources to generate the greatest social welfare


When does a market failure occur? - ✔️✔️When the conditions for the free market are not

fulfilled




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Name the two types of market failures - ✔️✔️Open access & free rider


Define an open access market failure - ✔️✔️Global commons has an open access

problem, because people take advantage of the open access in order to benefit their

own situation


Define the free rider market failure - ✔️✔️Little incentive for an individual to supply or

protect a public good


What is an externality? - ✔️✔️The cost of benefit of the production or consumption of a

good or service that is experienced by people other than the producer or consumer


What is a negative externality? - ✔️✔️It relates to the negative impacts of production or

consumption. There is no compensation paid to the third party who endure the negative

impacts


What is a subsidy? - ✔️✔️A form of financial aid or support to businesses, usually by a

government, to increase public welfare/promote a public good


What is a perverse subsidy? - ✔️✔️A subsidy whose net effect reduces public welfare


What is the pigouvian tax? - ✔️✔️A tax on any market activity that generates negative

externalities. The tax is intended to correct an undesirable or inefficient market outcome


What is GDP? - ✔️✔️Gross domestic product. A measure of the size of an economy


How is GDP calculated? - ✔️✔️GDP = consumption + investment + government spending

+ (export-import)



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