Part+8+-+Government

Public goods and Positive externalities - What is optimal amount when there are public goods or externalities? What is the optimal amount when there are no externalities of public goods?

Negative externalities - What is the optimal amount?

Government as health insurer - Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and military medicine, donut holes?

Incentives of government officials - Why do many economists argue that the FDA too long to approve new drugs? Why kind of programs to politicians have an incentive to create?

Price discrimination - Tying contracts

Antitrust laws - Mergers, tying contracts, exclusive dealings

Equity - vertical and horizontal. Taxes, subsidies