Consider the following information for a simultaneous move game: If you advertise and your rival advertises, you each will earn $5 million in profits. If neither of you advertises, you will each earn $10 million in profits. However, if one of you advertises and the other does not, the firm that advertises will earn $15 million and the non-advertising firm will earn $1 million. If you and your rival plan to be in business for only one year, the Nash equilibrium is:
A. for your firm to advertise and the other not to advertise.
B. for neither firm to advertise.
C. for each firm to advertise.
D. None of the answers is correct.
Answer: C
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If an American construction company built a road in Kuwait, this activity would be
A) excluded from U.S. GNP. B) fully included in U.S. GDP. C) included in U.S. GNP only for that portion that was attributable to American capital and labor. D) included in U.S. GDP but not in U.S. GNP.
The figure shown portrays a game using a:
A. decision tree.
B. decision matrix.
C. flowchart.
D. graph.
You are an efficiency expert hired by a manufacturing firm that uses K and L as inputs. The firm produces and sells a given output. If w = $40, r = $100, MPL = 20, and MPK = 40 the firm:
A. is profit maximizing but not cost minimizing. B. is cost minimizing. C. should use less L and more K to cost minimize. D. should use more L and less K to cost minimize.
Which is NOT true about the use of economic models?
A) Economic models are simplified representations of the real world. B) Economists always use experiments in science laboratories to test their theories. C) Economists use what has already happened in the real world to test their theories. D) Economists are employed to explain economic phenomena but are never used to predict what might happen next.