Daily exercise on managing a negative externality
Suppose a good creates a negative externality and has the market WTP, market WTA and externality marginal cost curves given below:
- `WTP=400-4Q_M^D`
- `WTA=80`
Please determine the following:
- The market P and Q before any policy is adopted to deal with the externality.
- The efficient Q and the optimal tax rate `T` needed to achieve it.
- The overall change in external costs, `\Delta Ext`, caused by the tax.
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