MARKET GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT
FAILURE INTERVENTION FAILURE
EXTERNALITY PUBLIC ENTERPRISE
-PUBLIC GOODS-NATIONALIZATION
MARKET
-PRIVATIZATION
POWER
REGULATION
INEQUITIES
- OUTPUT
DYNAMIC
- PRICE
MKT. FAIL.
- STANDARDS
INDIVISIBILITY ANTITRUST
INFORMATION
-STRUCTURE
ASYMMETRY -CONDUCT
TAXES (SUBSIDIES)
PROVISION OF
INFORMATION
RATIONING (MONEY)
ADMINISTRATIVE
COST
COMPLIANCE
COST
EFFICIENCY COST
- NEGATIVE EXTER.
-PUBLIC BADS
- MKT POWER
- INEQUITIES
- DYNAMIC
- INDIVISIBILITY
- INFORMATION
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EXTERNALITIES: impacts on third parties
besides the buyer and seller.
CONSUMPTION EXTERNALITIES: impacts
on third parties as a result of the consumption
of a good. Eg. Each infected person who takes
Drugs eliminates disease helps all of society, not
Just the drug company which provides the medicine
PRODUCTION EXTERNALITIES: impacts
on third parties as a result of the production of
a good. Eg. New discoveries & innovations
impact all of Society, not just the scientist who
disovers them and the firm who employs the
Scientist (streptomyacin patent problem)
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MARKET POWER: The power of a single
Company to change the price of a good
Or service in the market place.
includes:
MONOPOLY, MONOPOLISTIC
COMPETITION, BILATERAL MONOPOLY.
Examples: Drug Companies while they have
Patents.
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INEQUITIES: any economic, social or political
mechanism that systematically causes one part of
the population to be worse off than another part
of a population through time without the possibility
of correction.
Examples: Poor Populations have greater
vulnerability to TB due to their economic and
social conditions.
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DYNAMIC MARKET FAILURE: the failure
through time to achieve technological change
and the failure of the market to achieve stable,
equilibrium outcomes.
Examples: As a disease disappears in a given
locale:
-lack of incentives for new drug development
-Lack of treatment for those who are diseased
both in the area and in other areas where
pandemics may occur
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INDIVISIBILITIES: a problem cannot be subdivided into smaller pieces for the purpose of
solving the problem or marketing the solution
Example: even one remaining infected person
means no cure has been achieved. any plan to
wipe out a disease means that a comprehensive
world wide plan must be undertaken.
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INFORMATION ASYMMETRY: decision
makers do not have access to the same information
which leads to different definitions, boundaries,
and solutions to problems to be solved and
social outcomes.
Examples: indifference to disease, lack of education
about how to treat diseases, and failure to understand
the tradeoff between private rights and public
goods.
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MARKET
FAILURE
Tuberculosis
Example
EXTERNALITY
-PUBLIC GOODS
MARKET
POWER
INEQUITIES
DYNAMIC
MKT. FAIL.
INDIVISIBILITY
INFORMATION
ASYMMETRY
Third party: healthy population
TB tests, Drugs, Hospitals, Ventilation Systems
Drug Companies, Patents
Poor Populations have greater vulnerability
Lack of incentives for new drug development
As disease becomes less threatening
Even one infected person means no cure
Indifference, lack of education, personal vs.
public good.
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Public Enterprise: The government provides the
Service instead of the market.
• Nationalization: Government takes over private
enterprises
Examples: Move to single payor system
•Privatization: Government sells off government
enterprises to the private market
Examples: Sell off Veterans Administration
Hospitals
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REGULATION: Government determines how
Market outcomes are to be limited.
*output regulation: Government sets quotas or
Limits the amount of output that can be provided
By participants in a market.
Examples: prohibition of bogus cures
*price regulation: Government sets price controls
Either as minimum or maximum prices that can
Be charged in a market.
Examples: price controls on drugs
*standards regulation: Government sets limits on
The characteristics of a product or service
Examples: FDA regulations on advertising & quality
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ANTITRUST: the government limits the structure
and conduct of firms in the market instead of
market performance such as output and price.
• Structure: Government examines all mergers
Examples: Hospital, drug co. mergers
•Conduct: Government limits conspiracies to fix
prices
Examples: Drug company pricing
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Subsidies: Government provides money to
provide incentives for certain market outcomes
Examples: Medicare, Medicaid, Free Drugs
(Isoniazid, Myambutol)
Taxes: Government collects money to provide
revenues for government services and to
discourage certain market outcomes.
Examples: Income Taxes
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PROVISION OF INFORMATION: Government
provides information that the market otherwise
Would not provide
Examples: Data on extent of TB
RATIONING: Government determines market
Signals that will determine how distribution of
goods or services is to occur
Examples: TB drugs and treatment
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GOVERNMENT TUBERCULOSIS
INTERVENTION
EXAMPLE
PUBLIC ENTERPRISE
-NATIONALIZATION
-PRIVATIZATION
REGULATION
- OUTPUT
- PRICE
- STANDARDS
ANTITRUST
-STRUCTURE
-CONDUCT
TAXES (SUBSIDIES)
PROVISION OF
INFORMATION
RATIONING
SINGLE PAYOR SYSTEM
SELL OFF VA HOSPITALS
ISOLATION, QUARANTINE
PROHIBITION OF BOGUS CURES
PRICE CONTROLS ON DRUGS
FDA Regulations on Advertising, Quality
HOSPITAL, DRUG CO. MERGERS
PRICE FIXING,
MEDICARE, MEDICAID,FREE DRUGS
(ISONIAZID, MYAMBUTOL)
PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION,
DATA ON EXTENT OF TB
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GOVERNMENT TUBERCULOSIS
FAILURE
EXAMPLE?
ADMINISTRATIVE
COST
COMPLIANCE
COST
EFFICIENCY COST
*How much it costs the government to
Intervene.
*How much it costs the private sector
To comply with government intervention
*How much is lost in efficiency of service
As a result of government intervention
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GOVERNMENT FAILURE
ADMINISTRATIVE COST
COMPLIANCE COST
EFFICIENCY COST
-ANDAll of the Market Failures as well!!!
NEGATIVE EXTER.
PUBLIC BADS
MKT POWER
INEQUITIES
DYNAMIC
INDIVISIBILITY
INFORMATION
ASYMETRY
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GOVERNMENT STUDIES
Type of
Study
Objective of Study Definition and
Focus
Cost Benefit
Analysis
Net Social Benefit
Regulatory Impact
Analysis
Net Social Benefit
& other social
objectives
Economic Impact
Analysis
Describe all
regulatoryt impacts
Closure Analysis
Maximize
regulatory
objective
Cost Effectiveness
Analysis
Maximize pollution Avoids $ value on
abatement, etc.
benefits of
government
intervention
Up to decision
Focuses only on
makers
govt. unit
Fiscal Impact
Analysis
Implicit
Constraints
Benefits & costs
None
included to
whomever
occurring
Includes cost
Environmental &
benefit analysis and other constraints
other studies
Examines price,
output, financial, &
employment
impacts
Defines degree of
regulation that will
shut firms down
Assumes impacts
should be minimal
Implicitly, firms
are not to be shut
down
Budget or cost
constraint limits
amount of
intervention
Govt. revnue must
exceed cost
Problem
________
Comprehensive
measurement of
benefits & costs is
hard
Goes beyond costbenefit, but
becomes very
subjective
Regulation
discouraged.
Limited weighing
of costs/benefits
Overregulates
profitable,
underregulates
unprofitable
Comparisons
difficult across
different types of
intervention
Ignores costws &
benefits to society