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A firm in a perfectly competitive industry has patented a new process for making widgets. The new process lowers the firm's average cost, meaning that this firm alone (although still a price taker) can earn real economic profits in the long run. Suppose a government study has found that the firm's new process is polluting the air and estimates the social marginal cost of widget production by this firm to be SMC = 0.5q. If the market price is $20, what should be the rate of a government-imposed excise tax to bring about optimal level of production?

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business

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  1. 14
  2. 18
  3. 8
  4. 2
  5. 4
  6. 20
  7. 10
  8. 12
  9. 16
  10. 6

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