Chapter 9: Privatization (page 327)
What is economic liberalisation?
De regulation of the markets.
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What are the features of privatization when being implemented on a state owend firm?
The domestic supply and demand curves for hula beans are as follows:
Supply: P = 50 + Q
Demand: P = 200 - 2Q
where P is the price in cents per pound and Q is the quantity in millions of pounds. The U.S. is a small producer in the world hula bean market, where the current price (which will not be affected by anything we do) is 60 cents per pound. Congress is considering a tariff of 40 cents per pound. Find the domestic price of hula beans that will result if the tariff is imposed. Also compute the dollar gain or loss to domestic consumers, domestic producers, and government revenue from the tariff.
In Example 9.1 (page 332), we calculated the gains and losses from price controls on natural gas and found that there was a deadweight loss of \(5.68 billion. This calculation was based on a price of oil of \)50 per barrel.
a. If the price of oil were \(60 per barrel, what would be the free-market price of gas? How large a deadweight loss would result if the maximum allowable price of natural gas were \)3.00 per thousand cubic feet?
b. What price of oil would yield a free-market price of natural gas of $3?
What is 1 disadvantage of public ownership?
Explain the four policies related to Privatisation.
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