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Which of the following is a property of oligopoly?
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b. Few firms
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What is economies of scale?
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The long-run average cost of producing output decreases as total output increases
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Which type of price discrimination is most likely to be used by a monopoly?
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C. A hair salon charging a higher price to women.
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How does the production and prices for a market controlled by a monopoly usually compare to market with perfect competition?
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b. The monopolist makes less of the product and charges a higher price than with competition.
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A business in which type of market structure does not have to lower its price to sell more?
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a. Perfect competition
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What is marginal cost?
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c. The additional cost of producing one more unit.
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A factory designed to have 10 workers which is currently employing 25 workers is most likely in which range?
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b. diminishing marginal returns
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Firms in perfect competition in the long-run:
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a. always make zero profit
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Firms in monopolistic competition in the long-run:
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b. usually make zero profit
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Which of the following is a property of perfect competition?
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c. there are many firms in the market
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A firm in perfect competition is losing money in the long-run. What should they do?
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c. shutdown so they lose no money
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Which of the following is a property of monopolistic competition?
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d. both a & b; identical products, similar products
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Which of the following is a good example of perfect competition?
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a. Wheat farming when there are many wheat farmers
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When the airline industry was guaranteed a high price for tickets by the government, in the long-run this resulted in?
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c. airline firms engaged in quality of service competition which competed their profits away.
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How much money you make choosing to do one thing over the next best thing is called:
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b. economic profit
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Which of the following is a good example of monopoly?
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b. One electric company which powers a whole town.
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What is the total revenue of a firm?
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b. just the money that comes in from the customers.
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Which of the following is true?
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a. diminishing marginal returns makes cost rise in the short-run
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Which of the following is a property of perfect competition?
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b. competitors products are identical to each other.
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Which of the following is most likely a variable cost for a business?
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d. both b & c; The materials the product is made out of, Labor
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What is economies of scale?
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b. the long run average cost of producing output decreases as total output increases.
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Which of the following is a reason for the average total cost to fall in the long-run?
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c. Mass production technology - assembly line machines
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A wheat farmer in America has functional control over:
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b. the quantity of wheat he tries to grow on his farm
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The major antitrust trial in the U.S. in the late 1990's involved the company of?
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b. Microsoft
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If a firm in the short-run is losing money and does not expect business to improve in the future, it should shut down:
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b. only if P<AVC (TR<TVC)
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A firm has a price of $7.00, an ATC of $7.50, and an AVC of $6.00
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b. this firm is losing money but should keep operating
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A monopolist maximizes profits by producing and selling the quantity of goods where?
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b. Marginal revenue is equal to marginal cost.
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In which case below will the long-run supply curve slope be a downward sloping line?
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b. A decreasing cost industry
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Which of the following is true?
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b. when worker productivity (as measured by MPL) rises, the cost (as measured by MC) falls.
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The fundamental rule of profit maximization is to produce the quantity where:
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c. Marginal revenue is equal to marginal cost.
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What is the average-marginal rule?
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d. when the marginal value is higher than the average value, the average rises.
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An increasing cost industry is one in which as there are more firms making more of the product, the average cost of production is:
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a. increasing