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The decisive criterion is whether intervention creates a genuine net welfare loss."}]},{"id":"644b2242-8b25-445e-a9ea-6774ad4fb3cf","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Government failure creates an allocation of resources [ ].","back":"Government failure creates an allocation of resources worse than, or additional to, the original market failure.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"worse than, or additional to, the original market failure","correct":true,"explanation":"Government failure occurs when intervention worsens resource allocation or introduces further inefficiency, leaving society with losses beyond those associated with the original market failure."},{"text":"better than, or replacing, the original market failure","correct":false,"explanation":"An allocation that improves on or replaces the original market failure may represent successful intervention. Government failure makes allocation worse or creates additional failure."},{"text":"equal to, or independent of, the original market failure","correct":false,"explanation":"Merely preserving or being unrelated to the initial problem does not capture the definition. Government failure makes resource allocation worse or adds another failure."},{"text":"fairer than, or preferable to, the original market failure","correct":false,"explanation":"Fairness and public preference are not the defining welfare test. Government failure produces an allocation worse than, or additional to, the original market failure."}]},{"id":"cb2d1081-eb08-43a5-af2a-533c699c018a","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why can inadequate information cause government failure?","back":"It limits how accurately policy can correct the market failure.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It limits how accurately policy can correct the market failure.","correct":true,"explanation":"Without reliable information about costs, benefits and behaviour, governments may choose the wrong policy size or design and fail to correct the market failure efficiently."},{"text":"It limits how accurately policy can measure government popularity.","correct":false,"explanation":"Difficulty measuring popularity is primarily a political issue, not the relevant economic mechanism. Inadequate information causes failure by limiting accurate correction of the market failure."},{"text":"It limits how accurately policy can eliminate all private costs.","correct":false,"explanation":"Efficient policy does not seek to eliminate every private cost. Information is needed to target the market failure and balance marginal social benefits against costs."},{"text":"It limits how accurately policy can guarantee equal market shares.","correct":false,"explanation":"Equal market shares are not the objective of corrective intervention. Inadequate information instead prevents policymakers from accurately identifying and correcting the market failure."}]},{"id":"03932fbb-586e-4463-86fd-a707942b98bf","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How can administrative costs contribute to government failure?","back":"They raise intervention costs, reducing its net welfare gain.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"They raise intervention costs, reducing its net welfare gain.","correct":true,"explanation":"Staffing, monitoring and enforcement consume resources, so administrative costs reduce the net social benefit of intervention and may make total policy costs exceed its benefits."},{"text":"They lower intervention costs, reducing its net welfare gain.","correct":false,"explanation":"Lower costs would normally increase, not reduce, the policy’s net welfare gain. Administrative burdens contribute to failure because they raise the cost of intervention."},{"text":"They raise producer revenue, reducing its net welfare gain.","correct":false,"explanation":"Producer revenue is a transfer rather than necessarily an administrative resource cost. Government failure arises when administration raises intervention costs and erodes the net welfare gain."},{"text":"They lower consumer demand, reducing its net welfare gain.","correct":false,"explanation":"Administrative costs do not necessarily reduce consumer demand. Their direct significance is that running, monitoring and enforcing the intervention uses resources and reduces net welfare."}]},{"id":"008da8e3-2f45-4423-9cf4-04fbafb62298","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What source of government failure can skew regulation towards regulated interests?","back":"Regulatory capture.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Regulatory capture.","correct":true,"explanation":"Regulatory capture occurs when a regulator becomes influenced by the industry it oversees, causing rules or enforcement to favour regulated firms over wider social welfare."},{"text":"Information asymmetry.","correct":false,"explanation":"Information asymmetry concerns unequal information between economic agents. Regulation is skewed towards regulated interests specifically when the regulator experiences regulatory capture."},{"text":"Fiscal drag.","correct":false,"explanation":"Fiscal drag occurs when inflation or income growth moves taxpayers into higher tax bands. Influence by regulated firms over their regulator is regulatory capture."},{"text":"Consumer sovereignty.","correct":false,"explanation":"Consumer sovereignty describes production responding to consumer preferences, not firms influencing oversight. Regulation favouring the regulated industry is evidence of regulatory capture."}]},{"id":"4f2be0e6-0112-44a6-a8da-36e53befb277","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Intervention can distort [ ], creating unintended consequences.","back":"Intervention can distort price signals, creating unintended consequences.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"price signals","correct":true,"explanation":"Prices communicate relative scarcity and incentives to consumers and producers. Intervention can alter these signals, encouraging behavioural responses that policymakers did not intend."},{"text":"property rights","correct":false,"explanation":"Intervention can affect property rights, but the mechanism described here concerns distorted market information and incentives. Those are communicated through price signals."},{"text":"budget deficits","correct":false,"explanation":"Budget deficits describe government borrowing requirements rather than market signals guiding allocation. Intervention creates unintended consequences when it distorts price signals."},{"text":"national incomes","correct":false,"explanation":"National income measures aggregate economic activity, not the incentive mechanism distorted in individual markets. Prices provide the signals guiding consumption and production decisions."}]},{"id":"a6ef8616-77e8-464a-b75b-a30f78ccd05c","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What market distortion can a price cap cause?","back":"It can create a shortage.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It can create a shortage.","correct":true,"explanation":"When a binding price cap holds price below equilibrium, quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied, creating excess demand and therefore a shortage."},{"text":"It can create a surplus.","correct":false,"explanation":"A surplus is the typical result of a binding price floor above equilibrium. A binding price cap below equilibrium creates excess demand and a shortage."},{"text":"It can create a tax burden.","correct":false,"explanation":"A price cap does not itself impose a tax. By keeping price below equilibrium, it makes quantity demanded exceed quantity supplied, creating a shortage."},{"text":"It can create a budget deficit.","correct":false,"explanation":"A budget deficit concerns government spending exceeding revenue and is not the direct market distortion from a cap. A binding cap can create a shortage."}]},{"id":"e5012a0c-b519-4b1c-bb91-cea8e91cbfc4","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How can a subsidy distort resource allocation?","back":"It can encourage overproduction and waste.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It can encourage overproduction and waste.","correct":true,"explanation":"A subsidy lowers producers’ costs or raises their effective returns, encouraging output beyond the socially efficient quantity and potentially wasting scarce resources."},{"text":"It can encourage underproduction and scarcity.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the usual incentive: a subsidy makes production more rewarding rather than less. It can therefore encourage overproduction and waste."},{"text":"It can encourage unemployment and deflation.","correct":false,"explanation":"Unemployment and deflation are macroeconomic outcomes, not the direct allocation distortion identified here. Subsidies can make excessive production profitable, causing overproduction and waste."},{"text":"It can encourage saving and investment.","correct":false,"explanation":"Some subsidies may support investment, but that is not necessarily a misallocation. The relevant government failure is encouraging overproduction and waste beyond the efficient level."}]},{"id":"6930d714-1eeb-4d21-b7a3-a9366c4923fb","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why might a long-running subsidy cause government failure?","back":"It can keep inefficient producers operating.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It can keep inefficient producers operating.","correct":true,"explanation":"Continued financial support can protect high-cost firms from competitive pressure, preventing resources from moving towards more productive uses and reducing allocative efficiency."},{"text":"It can keep efficient producers competing.","correct":false,"explanation":"Keeping efficient firms in competition is not normally a welfare loss. The concern is that subsidy protection allows inefficient producers to continue operating."},{"text":"It can keep consumer prices falling.","correct":false,"explanation":"Lower consumer prices may be a policy benefit rather than government failure. A long-running subsidy becomes problematic when it sustains inefficient producers."},{"text":"It can keep tax revenues increasing.","correct":false,"explanation":"Rising tax revenue is not the direct inefficiency created by ongoing support. Subsidies can cause failure by keeping inefficient, high-cost producers in operation."}]},{"id":"90f35034-ad10-45cd-82a0-14e3295a498c","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How can a tax create unintended market distortions?","back":"People may dodge or game the tax, creating black markets.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"People may dodge or game the tax, creating black markets.","correct":true,"explanation":"Taxes change incentives, so individuals may evade liabilities or restructure transactions artificially. These responses can shift activity into illegal markets and undermine the intended policy."},{"text":"People may pay more of the tax, creating black markets.","correct":false,"explanation":"Simply paying more tax does not explain black-market activity. Such markets arise when people evade or manipulate the tax to avoid the higher legal cost."},{"text":"People may save to fund the tax, creating black markets.","correct":false,"explanation":"Saving to meet a liability is a legal financial response and does not generate black markets. Tax dodging or gaming pushes transactions outside legal channels."},{"text":"People may support or extend the tax, creating black markets.","correct":false,"explanation":"Supporting or extending taxation does not create illicit trade. Black markets emerge when people try to dodge or game the tax and avoid official transactions."}]},{"id":"758e7612-71e8-4f75-927f-cfdf1f5b59a2","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"How can an interest-rate rise create government failure if the inflation-employment trade-off is misjudged?","back":"Higher rates may raise unemployment without greatly reducing inflation.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Higher rates may raise unemployment without greatly reducing inflation.","correct":true,"explanation":"Higher interest rates weaken borrowing, consumption and investment. If inflation is not very responsive, aggregate demand and employment may fall while the inflation benefit remains small."},{"text":"Higher rates may raise employment without greatly reducing inflation.","correct":false,"explanation":"This reverses the usual demand effect of monetary tightening. Higher borrowing costs tend to reduce spending and may raise unemployment without substantially lowering inflation."},{"text":"Higher rates may raise inflation without greatly reducing unemployment.","correct":false,"explanation":"The standard direct effect of higher rates is weaker aggregate demand, not higher inflation. A misjudgement may cause unemployment to rise for little reduction in inflation."},{"text":"Higher rates may raise investment without greatly reducing inflation.","correct":false,"explanation":"Higher borrowing costs usually discourage rather than raise investment. The government-failure risk is increased unemployment with only a small reduction in inflation."}]},{"id":"9d93f931-7a98-47be-b242-dad4dc050dfa","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"At £200, supply is 120 tonnes and demand is 80 tonnes. Calculate the surplus.","back":"40 tonnes: $120 - 80 = 40$.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"40 tonnes: $120 - 80 = 40$.","correct":true,"explanation":"A surplus equals quantity supplied minus quantity demanded. At £200, subtracting 80 tonnes from 120 tonnes gives a surplus of 40 tonnes."},{"text":"200 tonnes: $120 + 80 = 200$.","correct":false,"explanation":"Adding supply and demand gives total quantities stated, not excess supply. The surplus is quantity supplied minus quantity demanded: 120 - 80 = 40 tonnes."},{"text":"80 tonnes: $120 - 40 = 80$.","correct":false,"explanation":"This incorrectly treats the unknown surplus as part of the subtraction. Excess supply is calculated directly as 120 - 80, giving 40 tonnes."},{"text":"20 tonnes: $120 \\times rac{80}{480} = 20$.","correct":false,"explanation":"A ratio calculation is unnecessary and does not measure excess supply. The surplus is the difference between supply and demand: 120 - 80 = 40 tonnes."}]},{"id":"1b3efd3a-dcf9-4c2a-be34-55a666e3f4c2","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Buying a 40-tonne surplus at £200 per tonne directly costs $\\text{[...]}$.","back":"Buying a 40-tonne surplus at £200 per tonne directly costs $\\boxed{40 \\times \\pounds 200 = \\pounds 8{,}000}$.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"$$40 \\times \\pounds 200 = \\pounds 8{,}000$","correct":true,"explanation":"The direct purchase cost equals quantity bought multiplied by the price per tonne. Multiplying 40 tonnes by £200 gives £8,000."},{"text":"$$40 + \\pounds 200 = \\pounds 240$","correct":false,"explanation":"Adding quantity to price mixes unlike units and does not calculate expenditure. Cost is quantity multiplied by unit price, so 40 × £200 = £8,000."},{"text":"$$40 \\times \\pounds 20 = \\pounds 800$","correct":false,"explanation":"This drops a zero from the £200 price, making the calculated bill ten times too small. The correct multiplication gives £8,000."},{"text":"$$4 \\times \\pounds 200 = \\pounds 800$","correct":false,"explanation":"This uses 4 tonnes instead of the 40-tonne surplus, making the bill ten times too small. Buying all 40 tonnes costs £8,000."}]},{"id":"0c285066-71f4-4f7c-b4c6-8634dec34b2f","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why does maintaining a price-floor surplus create a rising fiscal bill?","back":"The government repeatedly pays for purchases, storage and disposal.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"The government repeatedly pays for purchases, storage and disposal.","correct":true,"explanation":"A continuing surplus must be bought and then stored or disposed of. These recurring activities use public funds, so the fiscal cost accumulates over time."},{"text":"The government repeatedly pays for advertising, taxation and exports.","correct":false,"explanation":"Taxation raises revenue rather than being a necessary surplus-management payment. The recurring fiscal bill comes from purchasing, storing and disposing of excess output."},{"text":"The government repeatedly pays for consumption, shortages and imports.","correct":false,"explanation":"A price floor generates excess supply rather than a shortage, and consumption is not a government storage cost. The government pays for purchases, storage and disposal."},{"text":"The government repeatedly pays for production, demand and competition.","correct":false,"explanation":"Demand and competition are market conditions rather than direct government expenses. Maintaining the floor requires repeated purchases plus storage and disposal of the surplus."}]},{"id":"81873cf8-ed71-4b48-91be-b7f684c44286","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why does the crop price floor misallocate productive resources?","back":"Resources produce a crop that is not consumed.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Resources produce a crop that is not consumed.","correct":true,"explanation":"Land, labour and capital remain committed to output for which there is no consumption demand. Those resources could have produced goods with greater social value."},{"text":"Resources produce a crop that is fully consumed.","correct":false,"explanation":"If the crop were fully consumed at an efficient allocation, there would be no surplus demonstrating wasted production. Misallocation occurs because some output is not consumed."},{"text":"Resources produce a crop that is cheaply imported.","correct":false,"explanation":"Imports concern where a crop originates, not why domestic productive resources are wasted. The price floor directs resources into surplus output that is not consumed."},{"text":"Resources produce a crop that is highly profitable.","correct":false,"explanation":"Profitability under an artificial price floor does not establish efficient resource use. The misallocation arises because resources produce surplus crops that are not consumed."}]},{"id":"6cec703b-457a-46d8-8463-674f75a78255","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why does the £8,000 surplus purchase understate the price floor's total burden?","back":"It is additional to the higher price paid by consumers or taxpayers.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"It is additional to the higher price paid by consumers or taxpayers.","correct":true,"explanation":"The surplus purchase is only one cost; consumers or taxpayers also pay the higher supported price, so excluding that payment understates the policy’s total burden."},{"text":"It is offset by the lower price paid by consumers or taxpayers.","correct":false,"explanation":"A price floor raises the market price rather than lowering it. The missing burden is the higher price paid by consumers or taxpayers alongside the surplus purchase."},{"text":"It includes the profit earned by producers from selling the surplus.","correct":false,"explanation":"Producer profit is not an additional government cost in this calculation. The omitted burden is the higher price paid by consumers or taxpayers because of the price floor."},{"text":"It is equal to the total cost of storing the surplus output.","correct":false,"explanation":"Storage may create another cost, but it does not explain the understatement identified here. The surplus purchase is additional to the higher price paid by consumers or taxpayers."}]},{"id":"4e20fb8e-b1f1-4dbf-b76e-503875b29837","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Northern Ireland's Renewable Heat Incentive paid businesses [ ].","back":"Northern Ireland's Renewable Heat Incentive paid businesses more per unit of heat than the wood pellets cost.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"more per unit of heat than the wood pellets cost","correct":true,"explanation":"The tariff paid more for each unit of heat produced than the fuel cost, making it profitable to generate heat unnecessarily and encouraging wasteful behaviour."},{"text":"less per unit of heat than the wood pellets cost","correct":false,"explanation":"Paying less than the fuel cost would make production loss-making, removing the incentive to run boilers wastefully. The scheme instead paid more than the pellets cost."},{"text":"the same per unit of heat as the wood pellets cost","correct":false,"explanation":"A payment equal to the fuel cost would provide little or no reward for unnecessary output. The damaging incentive arose because payment exceeded the pellets’ cost."},{"text":"a fixed annual grant regardless of how much heat they produced","correct":false,"explanation":"A fixed grant would not directly reward every additional unit of heat, so it would not create this specific incentive. Payments instead exceeded fuel costs per unit of heat."}]},{"id":"ee90c427-14df-488d-9478-5381496a5309","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"What unintended incentive did the Renewable Heat Incentive create?","back":"Recipients gained by running boilers constantly, even heating empty sheds.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Recipients gained by running boilers constantly, even heating empty sheds.","correct":true,"explanation":"Because the payment per unit of heat exceeded the fuel cost, recipients could increase their income by producing heat continuously, even when buildings were empty."},{"text":"Recipients gained by running boilers only when heating occupied buildings.","correct":false,"explanation":"The scheme rewarded heat production even when it had no useful purpose, so recipients could gain by running boilers constantly, including in empty sheds."},{"text":"Recipients gained by running boilers only during periods of exceptionally cold weather.","correct":false,"explanation":"The payment was linked to heat generated rather than genuine heating need or extreme weather. This encouraged continuous operation, including heating empty sheds."},{"text":"Recipients gained by running boilers less frequently, conserving fuel in occupied buildings.","correct":false,"explanation":"Conserving fuel would reduce the volume of subsidised heat and therefore the payment received. The incentive worked in the opposite direction, encouraging constant operation and waste."}]},{"id":"f1bd3f96-b326-4064-af85-af9098ec1d64","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why was the Renewable Heat Incentive government failure rather than merely expensive?","back":"Its incentives caused wasteful heating and a projected overspend above £700 million.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Its incentives caused wasteful heating and a projected overspend above £700 million.","correct":true,"explanation":"The policy rewarded heat production beyond useful demand, leading to waste and a forecast overspend exceeding £700 million. These unintended effects make it government failure."},{"text":"Its incentives caused useful heating and a projected underspend below £700 million.","correct":false,"explanation":"Useful heating and an underspend would not demonstrate this failure. The problem was that incentives caused wasteful heating and a projected overspend above £700 million."},{"text":"Its incentives caused lower heating demand and a projected overspend above £700 million.","correct":false,"explanation":"The incentive increased, rather than reduced, heat generation because businesses were paid for producing it. The relevant failure combined wasteful heating with an overspend above £700 million."},{"text":"Its incentives caused wasteful heating and a projected saving below £700 million.","correct":false,"explanation":"Wasteful heating was part of the problem, but the financial consequence was a projected overspend, not a saving. The forecast exceeded £700 million."}]},{"id":"c0059f2b-a85e-44d0-8cdb-28dc96c9ba5e","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Intervention is justified only when it is likely to do [ ].","back":"Intervention is justified only when it is likely to do more good than harm.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"more good than harm","correct":true,"explanation":"Government intervention is worthwhile only when its expected benefits, such as correcting a market failure, exceed its costs and any unintended consequences."},{"text":"more harm than good","correct":false,"explanation":"This describes an intervention whose costs and unintended effects outweigh its benefits, so it would not be justified. The expected benefits must exceed the harm."},{"text":"equal amounts of good and harm","correct":false,"explanation":"If benefits and harms are equal, intervention provides no net gain and is not justified on efficiency grounds. It should be expected to produce more good than harm."},{"text":"less good than harm","correct":false,"explanation":"When harm exceeds benefit, intervention worsens outcomes rather than improving them. The justification requires expected benefits to be greater than the resulting harm."}]}]}],"examCountdown":{"examDate":"2027-05-10","paperLabel":"Paper 1"},"heading":"1.8.10 Government failure","title":"1.8.10 Government failure Flashcards","topbar":{"backHref":"/a-level/economics/aqa/flashcards"},"topicSidebar":"$L38"}]}],"topicId":"f55febbe-bb96-5b55-a40d-4187242881e9","walled":"$L39"}],"$L3a","$L3b"]