Goodman and Davis Live in an Area of New York

question 22

Multiple Choice

Goodman and Davis live in an area of New York City in which there is a 20-story limit on buildings.Goodman owns a 12-story building.Davis wishes to build a 26-story building.Goodman wants to sell Davis a portion of his unused air rights.The air rights being sold in this scenario are called:

• A)ad coelum rights.
• B)ad inferos rights.
• C)transferable development rights.
• D)air capture rights.

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Definitions:

Constant Returns to Scale

A situation in economics where increasing the inputs in production proportionately increases the output.

Constant Returns to Scale

The situation where an increase in all inputs by a certain factor leads to an increase in output by the same factor, showing linear scalability in production.

Diseconomies of Scale

The phenomenon where production costs per unit increase as a firm's output expands, often due to inefficiencies that arise from becoming too large.

Economies of Scale

Cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, with cost per unit of output generally decreasing with increasing scale.