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Category: Profit Maximizing Under Perfect Competition And Monopoly
Relative to a competitively organized industry a monopoly ?
A. Produces less output, charges higher prices and earns economic profits.
B. Produces less output, charges lower prices and earns only a normal profit
C. produces more output, charges higher prices and earns economics profits
D. produces less output, charges lower prices and earns economic profits
Which of the following statements best describes the outcome under monopolistic competition ?
A. It is efficient because the right amount of output is produced, but not efficient in that the output produced is produced at a cost above minimum average total cost
B. It is efficient because entry is free and economic profits are eliminated in the long run.
C. It is not efficient because too little output is produced and the output that is produced is produced at a cost above minimum average total cost
D. It is not efficient because too little output is produced but is efficient in that the output produced is produced at minimum average total cost.
A market is defined as perfectly contestable if ?
A. entry to it is costly but exit from it is costless
B. entry to it and exit from it are both costless
C. entry to it and exit from it are both costly
D. entry to ti costless but exist from it is costly
The formula for average variable cost (AVC) is ?
A. DTVC/Dq
B. q/TVC
C. Dq/DTVC
D. TVC/q
If firms can neither enter nor leaves an industry, the relevant time period is the ?
A. immediate run
B. intermediate run
C. long run
D. short run
Profit-maximizing firms want to maximize the difference between ?
A. marginal revenue and marginal cost.
B. total revenue and total cost
C. total revenue and marginal cost
D. marginal revenue and average cost
The short run, as economists use the phrase, in characterized by ?
A. at least one fixed factor of production and firms neither leaving nor entering the industry.
B. no variable inputs – that is, all of the factors of production are fixed
C. all inputs being variable
D. a period where the law of diminishing returns does not hold
In a monopoly, marginal revenue is ?
A. lower than price for all units other than the first
B. less than price at low levels of output and greater than price at high levels of output
C. always greater than price
D. always equal to price
When one firm in the breakfast cereal market started an advertising campaign that stressed the nutritional value of its cereals, all other cereal manufacturers started similar advertising campaign This suggests that the breakfast cereal market is ?
A. monopolistically competitive
B. oligopolistic
C. perfectly competitive
D. indeterminate from this information
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