When the court determines that a firm's size alone is sufficient to find that it violated antitrust laws, this criterion is called:
A. natural monopoly.
B. economies of scale.
C. per se.
D. rule of reason.
Answer: C
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When inflation causes the absolute prices of all commodities to rise, what happens to the relative prices of those commodities?
a. The relative prices also rise. b. When absolute prices rise, the corresponding relative prices fall. c. The relative prices are unaffected by changes in absolute prices. d. No prediction can be made about changes in relative prices.
In a private closed economy (an economy with only a private sector and no international trade), the equilibrium condition for the economy is
A. C + Ig + G + NX = Y. B. AE = C + Ig + G = Y. C. AE = G + Ig = Y. D. AE = C + Ig = Y.
An increase in the quantity of loanable funds demanded occurs when
A) wealth decreases. B) the expected profit rises. C) the real interest rate rises. D) the supply of loanable funds decreases. E) the real interest rate falls.
Assume that a monopolist decides to maximize revenue rather than profit. How does this operating objective change the size of the deadweight loss? If you are a "benevolent" manager of a monopoly firm and are interested in reducing the deadweight loss of monopoly, should you maximize profits or maximize revenue? Explain your answer