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The opportunity cost of building a new civic center in your new home town would be:
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The highest valued bundle of other goods and services that must be foregone because of the civic center project.
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In a market-based economy,
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Buyers and sellers gain from voluntary exchange.
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If someone is considering sunk costs when making a decision, what are they doing?
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Prudently considering all aspects of the project's finances.
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Bill Bonecrusher graduates from college with a choice of playing professional football at $2 million a year or coaching for $50,000 a year. He decides to play football, but eight years later, though he could continue to play football at $2 million a year, he quits football to make movies for $3 million a year. His opportunity cost at graduation was ________ and eight years later the opportunity cost of making movies was ________.
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$50,000
$2 million
$2 million
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Moving from point b to point e requires
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(Graph)Can never be accomplished
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Economic growth can be pictured in a production possibility frontier diagram by
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Shifting the production possibility frontier outward.
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Entrepreneurship refers to
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Persons who are risk-taking and who develop new ways of doing things.
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Which of the following is not "capital", as economists use the term?
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An office building
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Based on the movie I, Pencil, the knowledge necessary to make a pencil is generally known by:
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No one
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Suppose that your tuition to attend college is $16,000 per year and you spend $6,000 per year on room and board. If you were working full time, you could earn $20,000 per year. What is your opportunity cost of attending college for one year?
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$36,000
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Given that an economy is operating efficiently, what is the opportunity cost of increasing production of manufactured products from 300 tons to 500 tons per year?
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(Graph)
200 tons of agricultural products per year.
200 tons of agricultural products per year.
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The _______ the opportunity cost of doing something, the _______ likely it will be done.
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Higher;
less
less
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Customarily, economists classify resources into these major groups:
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Land, Labor, Capital, and Entrepreneurship.
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If an economy is operating at a point inside the production possibilities curve,
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Its resources are being wasted.
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Increasing opportunity cost while moving along a production possibility frontier is due to
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The fact that resources are not equally productive in alternative uses.
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Legislature to protect red-cockaded woodpeckers created incentives that resulted in premature harvesting of trees the woodpeckers like to nest in. This is an example of which of the following?
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Good intentions have unintended consequences that so not always lead to desired outcomes.
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The marginal benefit is the
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Additional gain from one more unit of an activity.
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The "coincidence of wants" problem associated with the barter refers to the fact that
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For exchange to occur each transactor must have a product which the other transactor wants.
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Scarcity exists when
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There is less of a good or resource available than people wish to have.
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If the equilibrium price of a good decreases and the equilibrium quantity of the good decreases, we can conclude that
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Demand decreased.
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Suppose that a product benefits from a successful advertising campaign. The result is that
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The demand for the product increases.
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Nine to twelve months following the lockdown due to COVID, several countries saw a spike in child births. Given this surge, one would expect that in the disposable diaper market
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The price and quantity sold to increase.
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Suppose people buy more of a good when the price of another good falls. These goods are
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Complements.
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If the actual price of t shirts is $7, there is
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(Graph)
A shortage of 8 t-shirts.
A shortage of 8 t-shirts.
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The quantity demanded of a good is
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The amount of a good that buyers are willing to purchase at a given market price.
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If the demand for one good decreases when the price of another good increases, the two goods are _______ goods.
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Complementary.
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Which of the following was NOT in the top 10 countries in terms of Economic Freedom according to the Heritage Foundation
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United States.
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While intuitively it makes sense that a demand curve is downward sloping, the technical rationale for the consumer's inverse relationship between price and quantity demand is
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The law of decreasing marginal benefits.
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At the Super Bowl, ticket scalpers charge prices high above the tickets face value price. This observation is evidence of
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A shortage at face value ticket prices.
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An economy in which people voluntarily exchange of goods and services is prohibited and government central planners determine the use and distribution of resources is called a
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Command economy.
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The law of Supply states that
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There is a positive relationship between price and quantity supplied, all else constant.
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The lowest opportunity costs between two countries producing a good is known as a(n)
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Comparative advantage.
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A change in the quantity demanded of a product is the result of a change in
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The price of a good.
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In the goods market of the circular flow model,
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Consumers buy finished products from firms.
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The money payments made to owners of land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial ability are
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Rent, wages, interest, and profits respectively.
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When a market is in equilibrium
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There is no shortage and no surplus at the equilibrium price.
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According to the law of increasing opportunity costs
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The slope of the supply curve is positive.
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The general relationship between economic freedom and per capita (per person) income is
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Positive- higher economic freedom leads to a higher per capita income.
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Price floors and price ceilings
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Are result of government intervention to change market equilibriums.
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An increase in the number of buyers in the market causes
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An increase in demand.
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A price floor on corn would have the effect of
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Creating a surplus when the price floor is set above the equilibrium price.
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An important determinant of the amount of grains harvested next year by Ethiopian farmers is the amount of seeds planted this year. Given that Western nations have guaranteed to donate five hundred tons of grain next year, this year the Ethiopian farmers will:
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Plant less seeds as the price of grain will be lower with the food aid.
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Between 2000 and 2013 the price of heroin decreased from $235 per gram to $76. Over the same period, the quantity of heroin consumed increased from 376 metric tons to 482 metric tons. What is the most likely explanation for these results?
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Poppy, a necessary component of heroin, production is very high, increasing supply of heroin.
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A binding quantity restriction (quota) leads to a price _____ the free market equilibrium price.
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Above
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The price elasticity of demand reflects the responsiveness of:
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Quantity demanded to a change in price.
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The government sometimes creates an excess demand for a product by setting a maximum price at which the product may be sold to consumers. This is sometimes called a
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Price ceiling.
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Assume that tortilla chips and salsa are complements. When the price of tortilla chips decreases
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The demand for salsa increases.
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As illustrated above, if your city imposes a tax of $100 per apartment:
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(Graph)
Consumers pay $60 and landlords pay $40 tax per apartment.
Consumers pay $60 and landlords pay $40 tax per apartment.
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A response to a price change would be described as a:
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Change in the elasticity of a supply curve.
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If the price elasticity of demand is -0.5, this means that a _______ increase in price causes a _______ decrease in quantity demanded.
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30%; 15%
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One can say with certainty that equilibrium price declines when supply
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Increases and demand decreases.
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A binding minimum wage law will
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Cause unemployment for some affected workers.
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If a product has only a few acceptable substitutes, demand for the product is most likely to be:
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Inelastic.
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If government implements a $10 price floor, the result would be
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(Graph) A shortage of 200 units.
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The quantity demanded of a product increases as
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The price of the product falls.
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Assume that land suitable for growing corn is also suitable for growing soybeans. A decrease in the price of corn will, over time,
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Increase the supply for corn.
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A decrease in supply would result from:
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An increase in the prices of input resources
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Variable costs are those that
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Change with the level of production.
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It would be possible to produce the world's present supply of wheat in a single flowerpot if it were not for the
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Law of diminishing marginal returns.
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The marginal product figures in blanks D and E are respectively
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(Marginal Product Chart)
15, 10
15, 10
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What is the average total cost of producing 45 units of output?
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(Marginal Product Chart)
$2.44
$2.44
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In the range where the total product of labor increases at a decreasing rate
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Capital has begun to constrain productive benefits from division of labor.
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The income elasticity of demand is
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Positive for a normal good and negative for an inferior good.
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The demand for emergency medical care (within a range of prices the person can afford) is probably:
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Perfectly inelastic.
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Titanic State University raises tuition for the purpose of increasing its revenue so that more faculty can be hired. TSU is assuming that the demand for education at TSU is
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Relatively inelastic.
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Benjamin operates a bookstore. His monthly revenue is $20,000, while his explicit, out of pocket costs to others (ie. cashiers, custodians, suppliers etc.) total $15,000 per month. If Benjamin were to discontinue his operation of the bookstore, he would work as a librarian with a monthly salary of $4,000. Which of the following statements is correct?
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Benjamin's accounting profit is $5,000, while his economic profit is $1,000.
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Marginal cost and average variable cost are equal at the output at which
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Marginal cost is a minimum.
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Specialization in production is economically beneficial primarily because it
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Permits the production of a larger output with fixed amounts of resources.
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The marginal product of labor is the
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Change in output from using one more unit of labor.
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The greatest economic burden of a tax is borne by
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The more inelastic party in the market.
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The curve labeled "a" represents the firm's
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(Costs Per Unit Graph)
Marginal cost curve.
Marginal cost curve.
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The curve labeled "c" represents the firm's
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(Costs Per Unit Graph)
Average variable cost curve.
Average variable cost curve.
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The short-run is a period of time in which
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At least one factor of production is fixed.
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A firm's short-run total product curve shows
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How the amount of output changes when the quantity of labor changes.
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If economic profit is equal to zero, then
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The entrepreneur is earning a normal rate of return.
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A firm's primary objective is best describes as
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Maximizing profit.
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A competitive firm shuts down if the price of its product is
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Less than its minimum average variable cost.
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The market structure in which firms have as much market power as a firm can have is a(n)
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Monopoly.
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A firm's marginal cost curve above the minimum of the average variable cost curve is also:
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The firm's short-run supply curve.
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In competition, an individual firm
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Determines the quantity it sells in the marketplace but has no influence over its price.
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The USDA maintains ethanol has an impact on food prices. "Higher ethanol production definitely and directly raises the price of corn," said USDA economist Ephraim Leibtag. In the long run in the corn market, what is true I'd the production of ethanol increases?
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New corn farmers will enter the market and decrease the market price.
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You notice that the price of butter falls and then rises. The best explanation for this is that: the demand for butter
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Decreased causing the price to fall, which induced other firms to exit the market causing supply to decrease, which caused the price to go back up.
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In the short-run, a competitive firm's economic profits
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Must be positive, negative (an economic loss), or zero (a normal profit).
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Which of the following is a defining characteristic of a competitive market?
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No restrictions on entry into the industry.
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If average total cost > average variable cost > price, a profit maximizing firm in a competitive market should:
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Shut down in the short-run.
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If firms in a competitive industry are making zero economic profit, then
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There is no incentive for either entry or exit.
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Marginal revenue is equal to
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The change in total revenue divided by the change in quantity sold.
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In the above figure, the firm will produce
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(Price and Quantity Graph)
20 units.
20 units.
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In the above figure, the firm's total economic profit is equal to
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(Price and Quantity Graph)
$60.
$60.
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A monopoly's economic profit is maximized by producing the amount of output such that
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Marginal revenue equals marginal cost
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When a firm is considered to be a "price taker" that means that the firm
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Cannot influence the market price of the good that it sells.
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A firm's interest in obtaining market power suggests they'd like to
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Have the ability to alter the market price.
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The above figure illustrates a firm's total revenue and total cost curves. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
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(Total Revenue & Total Cost and Quantity Graph)
At output Q2 the firm incurs an economic loss.
At output Q2 the firm incurs an economic loss.
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When new firms enter a market, the entry shifts the short-run market supply curve _________, the market price _________, and each firm's economic profit __________.
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Rightward;
falls;
decreases.
falls;
decreases.
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In competition, the marginal revenue of an individual firm
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Equals the price of the product.
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In the long run, the main reason that a monopolist can earn positive economic profits while a perfectly run firm cannot is:
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There are no barriers to entry in a perfectly competitive market.
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Price discrimination is when a firm charges:
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Different prices for the same goods to different consumers.
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Which market structure is characterized by several firms competing for small portions of the market through product differentiation?
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Monopolistic competition.
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Price discrimination is related to elasticity because:
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The firm can increase revenues by charging customers with elastic demands lower prices and charging customers with inelastic demands higher prices.
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A firm that has market power has the ability:
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To affect the price of its own product.
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A monopolistically competitive firm maximizes profits by producing at the point where
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Marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
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The economic inefficiency of a monopolist can be measured by
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The deadweight loss.
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Monopolistically competitive firms differentiate their products by
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Selling products with slightly different physical characteristics
Selling products at different locations
Creating awareness of the product or product image through advertising
(Answer is All of the Above)
Selling products at different locations
Creating awareness of the product or product image through advertising
(Answer is All of the Above)
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A single price monopolist will set its profit maximizing level of production where
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MR=MC
(Marginal revenue = marginal cost)
(Marginal revenue = marginal cost)
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In the short run, monopolistic competition can
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Earn an economic profit.
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Given that a monopolist acts in a profit maximizing manner, the above illustrates a monopolist:
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(Graph)
Make a positive economic profit.
Make a positive economic profit.
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The perfectly competitive firm charges a price ______ while the monopolistic competitor firm charges a price _______.
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Equal to marginal cost;
Greater than marginal cost
Greater than marginal cost
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A market that involves only one seller of a non-substitutional good or service is known as
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Monopoly
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When a market has "barriers to entry", it refers to:
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Factors that prevent other firms from challenging a firm with market power.
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A monopolistic firm is producing at an output level in the short run where average total cost is $3.50, price is $3.00, marginal revenue is $1.50, and marginal cost is $1.50. The firm is operating
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With an economic loss in the short run.
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Which of the following conditions would prevent a firm from being able to price discrimination?
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The inability to identify those customers willing to pay more.
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The monopolistic competitive firm
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Faces a downward-sloping demand curve and therefore is a price seeker.
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What area represents consumer surplus if a monopoly exercises market power in this market?
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(Graph)
A
A
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What area represents deadweight loss if a monopoly exercises market power in this market?
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(Graph)
C + E
C + E