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Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application 12th Edition by Walter Nicholson,Christopher Snyder

Edition 12ISBN: 978-1133189022
book Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application 12th Edition by Walter Nicholson,Christopher Snyder cover

Intermediate Microeconomics and Its Application 12th Edition by Walter Nicholson,Christopher Snyder

Edition 12ISBN: 978-1133189022
Exercise 18
Graph this numerical illustration of taxation, and use your graph to answer the following questions:
1. What is the value of consumer and producer surplus after the tax is imposed? How do you know that the area of the ''deadweight loss triangle'' is $1 here?
2. Suppose that the tax were raised to $4. How much in extra tax revenue would be collected? How much bigger would the deadweight loss be?
3. How large a tax would foreclose all trading in CDs? What would tax collections be in this case? What would the deadweight loss be?
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