"Externalities" Please respond to the following: Assess the impact of transaction costs as they apply to the Coase Theorem. Evaluate how government assignment of property rights impacts free market exchanges. Transactions costs are the costs associated with making a deal that are lost in the transaction (not transferred from one party of the transaction to the other). The Coase Theorem works only when these costs are very low, which appear to be very rare circumstances. In this theorem the government will give one party (the emitter or the receptor) the right to either emit the externality or be free from the externality. Either way, the Marginal External Cost of the externality gets added on to the Marginal Private Cost to set the new price and quantity in line with Marginal Social...