Which of the following would cause a change in supply, as opposed to a change in quantity supplied, in the market for used homes?
A) A decrease in the price of rental housing.
B) A decrease in the mortgage rates.
C) An increase in the incomes of home buyers.
D) An increase in the number of buyers in the market for used homes.
A
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Which oligopoly model results in firms successively undercutting their rivals' prices until the competitive outcome is reached?
a. The contestable market model. b. The Cournot model of oligopoly. c. The Bertrand model of oligopoly. d. The monopolistic competition model.
If the market interest rate is 5% and a bank advertises loans at 12%, the bank will receive
A) no applications. B) applications from mostly low-risk borrowers. C) applications from mostly high-risk borrowers. D) a moral hazard.
A bank's net worth is:
a. equal to assets plus liabilities
b. sometimes called the owners' equity.
c. equal to assets minus reserves.
d. the same thing as net profits.
e. the amount of interest charged by the bank for short-term loans.
Suppose that, as a firm's total production (or output) increases, the firm's manager correctly observes that an economy of scale is occurring. The manager must have noticed that:
a. ?per-unit costs increase as output increases b. ?per-unit costs decrease as output increases c. ?per-unit costs remain constant as output increases d. ?output does not affect per-unit costs