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from an economists point of view, costs
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may or may not involve monetary outlays
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implicit an explicit costs are different in that
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the former refer to non expenditure costs and the latter to out of pocket costs
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to economists the main difference between the short run and the long run is that
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in the long run all resources are variable, in the short run at least one resource is fixed
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the law of diminishing returns indicates that
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as extra units of variable resources are added to a fixed, while in the long run all resources are variable
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which of the following is most likely to be a fixed cost
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property insurance premium
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which of the following is most likely to be a variable cost
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fuel and power payments
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the ability of intel to spread product development costs over a larger number of units of outputs arises from
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economies of scale
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diseconomies of scale
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pertain to the long run
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a natural monopoly exists when
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unit costs are are minimized by having one firm produce an industrys entire output
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one reason that disenconomies of scale arise is because
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of the difficulties involved in managing and coordinating a large business enterprise
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The AbC corporation decreases all of its inputs by 12 % and finds that its out put falls by 8%. This menas that initially it was producing
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in the range of disenconomies of sclae
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which market model has the least number of firms
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pure monopoly
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there would be a unique product to which there are a few close substitutes under which market value
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pure monopoly
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in which two market models would advertising be used most often
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monopolistic competition and oligopoly
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the market model with the largest number of firms is
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pure competition
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which characteristic would be associated with pure competition
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price taker
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the retail trade for clothing would be an example of which market model
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monopolistic competition
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A firms sells a product in a purely competitive market
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produce more than 800 units
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in the short run the individual competitive firms supply curve is the segment of the
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marginal cost curve lying above the average variable cost curve
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a firm should increase the quantity of output as long as its
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marginal revenue is greater than its marginal cost
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a firm should always continue to operate at a loss in the short run if
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it can cover its variable costs and some of its fixed costs
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a purely competitive firm will be willing to produce at a loss in the short run provided
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the loss is no greater than its total fixed cost
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if a purely competitive firm is in short run equilibrium and its marginal cost exceeds its average total cost we can conclude that
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firms will enter the industry in the long run
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if firms enter a purely competitive industry, then in the long run this change will shift the industry
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supply curve to the right, and the market price will decrease
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one defining characteristic of pure monopoly is that
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the monopolist produce a products with no close substitute
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what do economies of scale, the ownership of of essential raw materials, and patents have in common
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they are all barriers to entry
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one feature of pure monopoly is that the demand curve
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slopes downward
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under a pure monopoly, a profit-maximizing will produce
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in the elastic range of its demand curve
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suppose that a monopolist calculates that a present output and sale
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decreasing price and increasing output
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pure monopolist
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sell where P>MC
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A profit-maximizing firm should shut down in the short run if the average revenue it receives is less than
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average variable cost
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In the short run, a monopolist profits
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may be positive, negative or zero
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when compared with the purely competitive industry with identical costs of production, monopolists will produce
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less output and charge a higher price
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the economic incentive for price discrimination depends on
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differences among buyers demand elasticities
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To practice long run price discrimination , a monopolist must
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be able to separate buyers into different markets with different price elasticities
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which would definitely not be an example of price discrimination
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An electric power company
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successful price discrimination requires that
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buyers with inelastic demand be charged higher prices than buyers with elastic demand
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laws and government actions designed to prevent monopoly and promote competition are the focus of
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antitrust policy
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which id not a form of product differentiation for the monopolistically competitive firm
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standard weekends and weekend hours
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A monopolistically competitive industry is like a pure competitive industry in that
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neither industry has significant barriers to entry
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which assumption is part of the model of monopolistic competition
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there are few buyers and sellers
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which would be a characteristic of monopolistic competition
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relatively small market share for each other
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in which industry is monopolistic competition most likely to be found
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retail trade
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a feature of monopolistic competition is
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nonprice competition
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the goal of product differentiation and advertising in monopolistic competition is to make
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price less of a factor and product differences more of a factor in consumer purchases
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A monopolistically competitive company is operation at a short run level
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make no changes in the level of outputs
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assume that in a monopolistically competitive industry, firms are earning economic profit. this situation will
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attract the excess capacity in the industry as firms expand production
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in long run equilibrium in a monopolistically competitive industry
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P>minimum AC
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monopolistic competition is characterized by excess capacity because
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firms produce at an output level less than the least cost output
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in monopolistic competition, we usually observe
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a large number of firms, each operating with excess capacity