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Which of the following is not a characteristic of a competitive firm
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Free entry is limited
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of a perfectly competitive firm
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Firms have difficulty entering the market
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Which of the following statements best reflects a price taking firm
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If the firms were to change more than the going price it would sell none of its goods
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Free entry means that
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No legal barrier prevents a firm from entering an industry
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If a competitive firm is currently producing a level of output which marginal cost exceeds marginal revenue then
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A one unit decrease in output will increase the firms profit
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Table 14-1 for a firm operating in a competitive market, the price is
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$7
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Table 14-1 for a firm operating in a competitive market, the marginal revenue is
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$7
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Table 14-4 a firm operating in a competitive market and facing the total costs listed in the table will not produce an output level beyond
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6 units
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Figure 14-1 if the market price is p1, in the short run, the perfectly competitive firm will earn
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Positive economic profits
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Figure 14-1 if the market price is p2, in the short run, the perfectly competitive firm will earn
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Zero economic profits
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Figure 14-1 if the market price is p3, in the short run, the perfectly competitive firm will earn
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Negative economic profits but will try to remain open
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Figure 14-1 if the market price is p4 in the short run the perfectly competitive firm will earn
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Negative profits and will shut down
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Figure 14-9 when the market is in the long run equilibrium at point a and panel be the firm represented in panel a will
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Have zero economic profit
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One difference between a perfectly competitive firm and a monopoly is that a perfectly competitive firm produces where
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Marginal cost equals price while monopolist produces were price exceeds marginal cost
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A perfectly competitive market
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Promote the general economic well-being was a monopoly market may not be in the best interest of society
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The simplest way for a monopoly to arise is for a single firm to
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On a key resource
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Encouraging firms to invest in research and development and individuals to engage in creative endeavors such as writing novels is one justification for
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Government created monopolies
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A natural monopoly occurs when
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There are economies of scale over the relevant range of output
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For profit maximizing monopolists
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P>MR=MC
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Figure 15-3How much output will the monopolist produce
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K
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Figure 15-3 what are measures the monopolists profit
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(B-G)*K
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When we compare economic welfare in a monopoly market to a competitive market the profits earned by the monopolist represent
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A transfer of benefits from consumer to producer
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Anti-trust laws have economic benefits that are with the cost if they
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Prevent mergers that would decrease competition and raise the cost of production
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Splitting up a monopoly is often justified on the ground that
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Competition is inherently efficient
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One problem with regular new monopolist on the basis of cost is that
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It does not provide an incentive for the monopolist to reduce its cost
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Which of the following statements is not correct
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Both monopolistic competition and perfect competition or characterized by product differentiation
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Two types of in perfectly competitive markets are
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Monopolistic competition and oligopoly
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I am perfectly competitive firms are characterized by
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Price making ability
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Monopolistically competitive industry is characterized by
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Many firms differentiated products and free entry
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Each firm and a monopolistically competitive firm face is a downward sloping demand curve because
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The firms product is different from those offered by other firms in the market
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For a monopolistically competitive firm at the profit maximizing quantity of output
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Price exceeds marginal cost
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Monopolistically competitive firm is currently producing 10 out units of output at this level of output the firm is charging a price equal to $10 has marginal revenue equal to six dollars has marginal cost equal to six dollars and as average total cost equal to $12 from this information we can infer that
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The profits of the firm are negative, firms are likely to leave this market in the long run, the farm is currently maximizing its profits
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For a profit maximizing monopolistically competitive firm price exceeds marginal cost in
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Both the short run and the long run
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An important difference between the situation faced by a profit maximizing monopolistically competitive firm in the short run in the situation face by that same firm in the long run is that in the short run
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Price me exceed average total cost but in the long run price equals average total cost
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Figure 16-1 in order to maximize profit, the firm will charge a price of
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$18
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Figure 16-1 suppose the average total cost is $18 when Q equals 12. What is the profit maximizing price and resulting profit
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P= $18 profit = $0
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Figure 16-1 suppose atc= $18 when q=$12 then the
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Firm is in a long run equilibrium when it produces 12 units of output
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The relationship between advertising and product differentiation is
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Positive: the more differentiated product, the more firm is likely to spend on advertising
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Critics of advertising argue that advertising
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Creates demand for products that people otherwise do not want or need
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Which of the following is a commonly cited benefit of advertising
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Advertising can be a signal of the quality of a product
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In general game theory is the study of
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How people behave in strategic situations
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A feature that distinguishes an old couple list industry from other types of firms is the tension between
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Cooperation and self interest
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In agreement between to duopoliststo function as a monopolist usually break down because
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Each duopolist wants a larger share of the market in order to capture more profit
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Table 17-2 pittsville demand schedule for gas. MC= $2 per gallon. If the market for gasoline and Pittsville is perfectly competitive than the equilibrium price of gasoline is
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Two dollars and the equilibrium quantity is 800 gallons
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Table 17-2 if there are exactly to sellers of gasoline and if they successfully clued them which of the following outcomes as most likely
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Each seller will sell 200 gallons in charge of price of six dollars
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Which of the following statements is correct
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When oligopoly firms collude they're behaving as a cartel
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In the prisoners dilemma game self interest leads
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To a breakdown of any agreement that the prisoners might have had made before the being questioned, to an outcome that is not particularly good for either prisoner, each prisoner to confess
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Table 17-11 increasing the size of a store in parking lot it's a dominant strategy for
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Both stores
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Table 17-11 if both stores follow dominant strategy, homes are us annual profit will be
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.75 Million
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Table 17-11 The owners of the stores should agree to
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Refrain from increasing the store and parking lot sizes
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Anti-trust laws in general are used to
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Prevent oligopolist from acting in ways that make markets less competitive
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Economist claimed that the resale price maintenance agreement is not anti-competitive because
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If a supplier has market power it will be likely to exert that power throughout wholesale price rather than retail price