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In general, economic profits are
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Less than accounting profits
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Refer to the graph above. The supply curve for the perfectly competitive firm (in the short-run) is best represented by the segment:
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CE
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A perfectly competitive firm would never operate in the segment
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AC
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Refer to the graph above depicting a perfectly competitive firm. In order to maximize profit, the firm represented will produce.
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110 units of output
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The long-run exit rule is to exit the industry if
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P < ATC
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In the short run, when a firm stops producing:
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It avoids paying variable costs
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A college student is thinking about running an ice cream truck over the summer. Which of the following would likely be a one - time expense of the business?
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The cost of the truck
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The principle of diminishing marginal product states:
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The marginal product of an input decreases as the quantity of the input increases
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An essential characteristic of a perfectly competitive market is:
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|All of these are true|
Free entry and exit
Sellers are price takers
Goods are standardized (homogenous)
Free entry and exit
Sellers are price takers
Goods are standardized (homogenous)
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A firm realizes that the market price has fallen below its average total costs, and it is now earning a loss. What is the best action for the firm to take it in the short run?
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Stay open if price is greater than average variable costs
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The marginal cost (MC) curve intersects the
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ATC and AVC curves at their minimum points
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The marginal cost curves slopes upwards due to
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Diminishing marginal returns
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A price- taking firm faces a
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Perfectly elastic demand
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Refer to the figure above: Which shoes the cost curves and marginal revenue curve of a firm in a perfectly competitive industry, the firs is
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Making an economic profit
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Refer to the figure above which illustrates the long - run average total cost curve. Which of the following statements is fals?
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Diseconomies of scale exist between 0 and Q1 units of output.
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Suppose a monopoly firm has a constant marginal cost equal to $20. Its demand and marginal revenue are given respectively by the equations P = 40 - 20Q and MR = 40 - 4Q. For this firm, the profit maximizing price and output levels are
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P = $20, Q =5
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Suppose an industry initially had been perfectly competitive and then became a monopoly. Which of the following would occur.
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Consumer surplus would decrease