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Edexcel A-Level Economics AS 1.3.6 2b Causes of Government Failure Questions

Practise identifying administrative-cost and unintended-consequence failures, then evaluate tax-induced smuggling with contextual evidence.

Syllabus
First assessment 2019
Course
Economics YEC11
Level
AS

Exam points

  • identify excessive administrative costs as failure when state provision uses disproportionate resources
  • explain how a large tax differential encourages smuggling, lost revenue and enforcement costs
  • evaluate the failure by tax size, detection risk, unrecorded trade and external-cost reduction

Edexcel A-Level Economics AS 1.3.6 2b Causes of Government Failure Questions question 1

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Which one of the following is an example of government failure?

A

Market forces eliminating excess supply of a product by enabling its price to fall

B

A market bubble emerging in the value of shares on the stock exchange

C

The introduction of a tax that causes a decrease in external costs

D

The introduction of a tax that causes an increase in smuggling

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