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Category: Profit Maximizing Under Perfect Competition And Monopoly
The normal rate of profit for relatively risk-free firms will be _________ the interest rate on risk-free government bonds?
A. approximately one-half
B. smaller than
C. larger than
D. approximately equal to
Which of the following is most likely to be a variable cost for a firm ?
A. The franchiser’s fee that a restaurant must pay to the national restaurant chain
B. The payroll taxes that are paid on employee wages.
C. The monthly rent on office space that it leased for a year
D. The interest payments made on loans.
An industry that has a relatively small number of firms that dominate the market is called ?
A. a colluding industry
B. a merged industry
C. a concentrated industry
D. a natural monopoly
Suppose we know that a monopolist is maximizing its profits. Which of the following is a correct inference? the monopolist has?
A. maximized its total revenue
B. set price equal to its average cost
C. equated marginal revenue and marginal cost
D. maximized the difference between marginal revenue and marginal cost.
The formula for average fixed costs is ?
A. Dq/DTFC
B. TFC – q
C. TFC/q
D. q/TFC
A graph showing all the combinations of capital and labor that can used to produce a given amount of output is ?
A. an indifference curves.
B. an isoquant.
C. an isocost line
D. a production functions
If the ABC Typing Service is earning a rate of return greater than the return necessary for the business to continue operations, then ?
A. normal profit is zero
B. total costs exceed total revenue
C. total costs exceed normal profit
D. the firm is earning are economic profit
Most empirical studies show that firm’s cost curves ?
A. slope up to the right
B. are U-shaped
C. slope down to the right
D. slope down to the right and then level off.
The slope of marginal revenue curve is ?
A. always equal to one.
B. half as steep as the demand curve
C. the same as the slope of the demand curve
D. twice as steep as the demand curve
A price- and quantity-fixing agreement is known as?
A. price leadership
B. price concentration
C. collusion
D. game theory,
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