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Economics
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Describe the impacts of the government implementing a sugar tax on fizzy drinks?

A sugar tax would be a direct tax that would increase the price of fizzy drinks such as diet coke for consumers. This would make it more expensive for consumers to purchase fizzy drinks and would therefor...

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Explain why the use of petrol and diesel cars may be a source of market failure.

Pollution from petrol cars is an example of a negative externality (where the actions of one person impact another without the affected person being compensated). In a competitive economy people pay the &...

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What does the Price Elasticity of Demand measure? How is it calculated? And why is it important?

Price Elasticity of Demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded by consumers after a change in price of the product. At A-Level this is measured via two points on the demand curve A and B. The...

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Describe the effects of an indirect tax (ex. sales tax) on the market for cigarettes.

The tax increases costs of production, moving the supply curve to the left by the amount of tax. There has been a fall in the equilibrium quantity and a higher price paid by consumers. The burden of tax o...

Answered by Dehaja S. Economics tutor
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Explain why the housing market is not a perfectly competitive market.

The housing market is not a perfectly competitive market as it fails to fulfil the necessary characteristics of a perfectly competitive market.
Firstly, in a perfectly competitive market, all the pr...

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