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A-LevelEconomicsMarket Failure and Government InterventionMay/June 2018Paper 3 Q171 Mark

Under which circumstances will a subsidy from the government be most beneficial if there are externalities from producing good X? externality caused by good X | price elasticity of demand of good X -----------------------------|------------------------------------ A negative | <1 B negative | >1 C positive | <1 D positive | >1

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About This A-Level Economics Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Economics (9708) May/June 2018 examination, Paper 3 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Market Failure and Government Intervention and is worth 1 mark.

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