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The introduction of an indirect tax increases the firm's costs of production. Therefore, as there is a change in the determinants of supply, the market supply curve shifts to the left. This results in a n...

A monopoly is a relatively simple market structure. One firm is the single producer for the market, or serves the majority of customers. For this to occur there must be some kind of barrier which stops ot...

Common access resources are resources which are not owned by anyone, do not have a price and are available for anyone to use without payment. They are rivalrous but non-excludable. Since they are free and...

They are changes in taxation and spending that happen automatically as the economy moves through different phases of the busines cycle. For example the tax revenues increase as the economy expands and tra...

Automatic stabilizers are a form of autonomous adjustment that the economy does in booms and recessions. To understand automatic stabilizers we need to first know how fiscal policy works and know what a b...