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If two firms doing the same thing in the same industry join together, this is known as a ?
A. vertical merger
B. horizontal merger
C. conglomerate merger
D. hostile takeover
Income inequality can be high in the free market and should be reduced This is an example of What ?
A. Judicial economic statement
B. Positive economic statement
C. Formative economic statement
D. Normative economic statement
A shift in demand will have more effect on price than quantity if ?
A. The price elasticity of supply is + 3
B. The price elasticity of supply is + 0.2
C. The price elasticity of supply is + 2
D. The price elasticity of supply is infinity
Tax shifting ?
A. is the way in which a tax is structured
B. is the ultimate distribution of a tax’s burden
C. occurs when taxes cause prices to increase but wages to fall
D. occurs when house hold can alter their behaviour and do something to avoid paying a tax.
Externalities arise because there is a divergence between ________ and _________?
A. private costs, private benefits
B. private costs, social costs or benefits
C. social costs, social benefit
D. insiders, outsiders
If the consumption of good by one person does not reduce the quantity available by others and nobody can be easily excluded from consumption, we are referring to a ?
A. Private good
B. merit good
C. public good
D. abundant good
The price mechanism cannot ?
A. Act as a signal
B. Act as a incentive
C. Act as a rationing device
D. shift the demand curve
Moral hazard means that the act of insuring ____ that the desired outcome will occur?
A. reduces the likelihood
B. increases the likelihood
C. guarantees
D. none of the above
The law of supply states that an increase in the price of a good ?
A. none of these answers
B. increases the quantity supplied of that good
C. increase the supply of that good
D. decrease the demand for the good
E. decrease the quantity demanded for that good
Assuming a downward sloping demand curve and upward sloping supply curve a higher equilibrium price may be caused by ?
A. An fall in demand
B. An increase in supply
C. improvements in production technology
D. An increase in demand
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