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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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When Daimler Benz maker of the Mercedes bought Chrysler the merger was |
Horizontal
Vertical
Conglomerate
None of these
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A monopoly market. |
Generally falls to maximize total economic well being.
Always maximizes total economic well being.
always minimizes consumers surplus
Generally falls to maximum produce surplus
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In a perfectly competitive market if firms are earning an economic profit the economic profit. |
Attracts entry by more firms, which lowers the market price
Can be earned both in the short run and long run
Is less than the normal profit
Leads to a decreases in market demand
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If a monopolist faces a downward sloping market demand curve its. |
Average revenue is always less than marginal revenue
Marginal revenue is greeter than the price of the units it sells.
Average revenue is less than the price of its product.
Marginal revenue is always less than the price of the units it sells
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When a tax is levied on a good. |
The market price falls because demand declines.
The market price falls because supply falls.
A wedge is placed between the price buyers pay and the price sellers receive
The market price rises because demand falls.
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An increase in price causes an increase in total revenue when. |
Demand is elastic
Demand is inelastic
Demand is unit elastic
All of the above are possible
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Ti access internet services consumers must use a computer if computer prices fall, what is the effect on the demand for internet services. |
The demand for internet services increases.
The demand for internet services decreases
The demand for internet services does not change
The demand for internet services could increase, decrese, or stay the same depending on other factors.
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A drop in the price of compact disc shifts the demand curve for prerecord tapes leftward from that you know that compact discs and precorded tapes are. |
Inferior goods
Substitutes
Complements
Normal goods
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26 |
A firm that is a price taker faces a perfectly |
Elastic supply curve
Inelastic demand curve
Elastic demand curve
In elastic supply curve
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The long run is a time period that is. |
Five years or longer
Long enough to change the level of labor hired
Long enough to change the size of the firm's plant
Ten years or longer
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Which of the following correct about firms in an oligopoly. |
Each firm has complete control over its own selling price
All firms independently charge monopoly prices
No one firm controls price but each has an influence on the price
There is no competition in oligopoly industries
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If an increase in the price of gasoline increases the demand for gas hybrid cars, then |
Hybrid cars are an inferior good
Gasoline and hybrid cars are complements in consumption
Gasoline is an inferior good
Gasoline and hybrid cars are substitutes in consumption
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Marginal cost is the change is cost the result from a one unit increase in. |
Price
Cost
Output
Revenue
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