Firms Are Likely to Prefer a Pollution Tax to a Command-And-Control

question 150

Multiple Choice

Firms are likely to prefer a pollution tax to a command-and-control policy because the command-and-control policy will

• A) increase the costs of production more than a pollution tax.
• B) result in the price of the good rising more than under a pollution tax.
• C) result in consumers buying less of the good than under a pollution tax.
• D) all of the above

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