Sheri is currently purchasing 10 units of a normal good and her indifference curves exhibit diminishing marginal rate of substitution. Suppose there is a decrease in the market price of this good. Then
A) both her utility and her consumer surplus will increase.
B) her consumer surplus will increase, but her utility will remain the same.
C) her utility will increase, but her consumer surplus will remain the same.
D) her consumer surplus will increase, but the change in her utility is unknown without more information.
A
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A tariff imposed by the United States on Japanese cars ________ the price of cars in the United States and ________ the quantity of Japanese cars imported into the United States
A) raises; increases B) raises; decreases C) lowers; increases D) lowers; decreases
Refer to the information provided in Table 14.4 below to answer the question that follows. Table 14.4B's Strategy ?Raise PriceDon't Raise Price?RaiseA's profit $6,000A's profit $20,000?PriceB's profit $6,000B's profit $30,000A's Strategy????Don'tA's profit $30,000A's profit $10,000?RaiseB's profit $20,000B's profit $10,000Refer to Table 14.4. Firm A?s optimal strategy is
A. dependent on what Firm B does. B. to raise the price of its product. C. to not raise the price of its product. D. indeterminate from this information, as no information is provided on Firm A?s risk preference.
In the United States during the 1950s and 1960s
A) the inflation rate was frequently less than 2 percent a year. B) prices rose sharply. C) prices fell. D) there was zero inflation.
In the above figure, the movement from point C to point A is the result of
A) a decrease in the price of coffee. B) an increase in the price of coffee. C) a decrease in the price of gasoline. D) an increase in the price of gasoline.