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As long as all prices remain constant an increase in money income results in. |
An increase in the slope of the budget line
A decrease in the slope of the budget line
An increase in the intercept of the budget line.
a decrease in the intercept of the budget line.
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As long as the principle of diminishing marginal utility is operating any increased consumption of a good. |
Lowers total utility
Produces negative total utility
Lowers marginal utility and therefore total utility
Lowers marginal utility, but may raise total utility.
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A situation in which firms choose their best strategy given the strategies chosen by the other firms in the market is called. |
a competitive equilibrium
An open market solution
The Nash equilibrium
The cartel equilibrium
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Which of the following is a characteristics of monopolistic competition. |
One seller serving the entire market
When each firm sells an identical product
When firms do not compete on a product's quality price and marketing.
When firms are free to enter and exit the market
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5 |
When Daimler Benz maker of the Mercedes bought Chrysler the merger was |
Horizontal
Vertical
Conglomerate
None of these
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6 |
Oligopoly is a market structure in which |
Many firms each produce a slightly differentiated product
One firm produces as unique product
A small number of firms compete
Many firms produce an identical product
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7 |
In a typical cartel agreement the cartel maximizes profit when it. |
Behaves like a monopoly
Behaves like a perfectly competitive firm
Behaves like a duopoly
Is flexible in enforcing production targets
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8 |
Firms entering a perfectly competitive market will cause the price of the product to |
Decrease
Increase
Remain constant
Respond more to consumer demand than supply
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9 |
In contract to perfectly competitive markets monopolists |
Do no have to worry about market demand
Sell only if demand is inelastic
Can never incur an economic loss
Can earn an economic profit indefinitely
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If a good has a lot of substitutes, then its demand is. |
Elastic
Inelastic
Unit elastic
Elastic or inelastic depending on whether the price is increasing or decreasing
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In Production of goods and services tradeoffs exist becasue. |
Buyers and sellers often negotiate prices
Society has only a limited amount of productive resources
Not all production is efficient
Human wants and needs are limited at a particular point in time
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Firms in monopolistic competition compete on |
Price
Quality
Advertising
All of the above are correct
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13 |
The exit of firms out of a competitive market causes the supply curve to. |
Shift leftward
shift rights ward
None of the above for the exit of firms supply curve
shift either left or right depending on the number of firms leaving the market
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14 |
The price of salsa rises, How does the increase in the price of salsa affect the supply of salsa. |
The supply of salsa increases
The supply of salsa decreases
There is no change to either the supply of salsa or the quantity supplied of salsa
There is no change to the supply of salsa but the quantity supplied of salsa increases
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When oligopolistic firms interacting with one another each choose their best strategy given the strategies chosen by other firm in the market we have |
A cartel
The perfect competitive outcome
The Nash equilibrium
Monopolistic competiton
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When oligopolistic firms interacting with one another each choose their best strategy given the strategies chosen by other firms in the market we have. |
A cartel
The perfect competitive outcome
The Nash equilibrium
Monopolistic competition
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If there are 50 firms in a industry each selling 2% of the total sales the concentration ratio is. |
50%
2%
8%
100%
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18 |
In the long run a profit maximizing firm will choose to exit a market when |
Fixed costs exceed total costs
Total revenue from production is less than total costs
Average fixed cost is rising.
Marginal cost exceeds marginal revenue at the current level of production.
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Economic growth is shown on the production possibility frontier as. |
The curvature of the PPF
An inward shift in the PPF
An outward shifts in the PPF
A movement from one point on the PPF to another
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20 |
Holding all other things constant a higher price for ski lift tickets would. |
Increase the number of skiers
Increase the price of skis
Decrease the number of skis sold
Decrease the demand for other winter recreational activities
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