TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Principles of economics - Chapter 8: Application: The costs of taxation

In this chapter you will examine how taxes reduce consumer and producer surplus, learn the meaning and causes of the deadweight loss of a tax, consider why some taxes have larger deadweight losses than others, examine how tax revenue and deadweight loss vary with the size of a tax. | 8 Application: The Costs of Taxation Application: The Costs of Taxation Welfare economics is the study of how the allocation of resources affects economic well-being. Buyers and sellers receive benefits from taking part in the market. The equilibrium in a market maximizes the total welfare of buyers and sellers. THE DEADWEIGHT LOSS OF TAXATION How do taxes affect the economic well-being of market participants? THE DEADWEIGHT LOSS OF TAXATION It does not matter whether a tax on a good is levied on buyers or sellers of the good . . . the price paid by buyers rises, and the price received by sellers falls. Figure 1 The Effects of a Tax Copyright © 2004 South-Western Size of tax Quantity 0 Price Price buyers pay Price sellers receive Demand Supply Price without tax Quantity without tax Quantity with tax How a Tax Affects Market Participants A tax places a wedge between the price buyers pay and the price sellers receive. Because of this tax wedge, the quantity sold falls below the .

• Kinh tế học
• Principles of economics
• Lecture Principles of economics
• Costs of taxation
• Deadweight loss
• Laffer curve
• Supply side economics
• Ten principles of economics
• People face tradeoffs
• Opportunity cost
• Marginal changes
• Economics of information
• Consumer choice
• Free rider problem
• Market transactions
• Welfare Economics
• Consumer surplus
• Demand curve
• Efficiency of markets
• Nature of an externality
• Market inefficiency
• Negative externalities
• Principles of microeconomics
• Lecture Principles of microeconomics
• Scarce resources
• Scarcity implies choice
• Choice implies cost
• Principles of agricultural economics
• Agricultural economics
• Economics of agricultural production
• Theory of consumer behaviour
• Economics of market demand
• Dynamics in demand analysis
• Analysis of agricultural markets
• Agricultural markets
• Economics of trade
• Market forces
• Supply and demand
• Market economies
• Competitive Markets
• Thinking like an economist
• Economic models
• Circular flow diagram
• Production possibilities frontier
• The gains from trade
• Production possibilities
• Comparative advantage
• Absolute advantage
• Costs of production
• Total revenue
• Total cost
• Opportunity costs
• Price elasticity of demand
• Price elasticity
• Midpoint method
• Demand curves
• Factors of production
• Demand for labor
• Production function
• Marginal product of labor
• Controls on prices
• Price ceiling
• Price floor
• Market outcomes
• Theory of consumer choice
• Budget constraint
• Indifference curve
• Marginal rate of substitution
• Measuring nation’s income
• Economy’s income
• Gross domestic product
• Components of GDP
• International trade
• Determinants of trade
• Equilibrium without trade
• Production and growth
• Economic growth
• Monetary system
• Functions of money
• Federal reserve
• Central bank
• Open economy macroeconomics
• Economy macroeconomics
• Closed economy
• Open economy
• Public goods
• Common resource
• Types of goods
• Cost benefit analysis
• Aggregate demand
• Aggregate supply
• Short run economic fluctuations
• Economic fluctuations
• Tax system
• Federal Government
• Marginal tax rate
• Budget surplus
• Macroeconomic policy
• Debate over macroeconomic policy
• Stabilize the economy
• Monetary policy