Firms have an incentive to externalize their costs, that is, to make others face the opportunity costs

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Firms have an incentive to “externalize” their costs, that is, to make others face the opportunity costs of their actions while firms reduce their own accounting costs.

a. Give some examples of firms doing this.

b. What implications for policy does it have?

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Microeconomics

ISBN: 9781260507140

11th Edition

Authors: David Colander

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