Based on the graph below, how does the monopolist's profit-maximizing price and output compare to the efficient price and output?
a. The monopolist charges less and produces less.
b. The monopolist charges more and produces more.
c. The monopolist charges more and produces less.
d. The monopolist charges less and produces more
c. The monopolist charges more and produces less.
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What will be an ideal response?
Excess reserves immediately decrease if
A) reserve requirements increase. B) reserve requirements decrease. C) the discount rate increases. D) the discount rate decreases.
Suppose you are risk loving and you are deciding between two investments. One has a guaranteed return of 5% while the second has a 50% chance of a 10% return and a 50% chance of a 0% return. Which investment would you choose? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
In more modern times as opposed to the times of Malthus, higher standards of living appear to
A) decrease death rates and increase birth rates. B) decrease death rates and also decrease birth rates. C) decrease death rates and have no effect on birth rates. D) have had effects on neither death rates nor birth rates.