A firm is considering three projects. Each costs $1 million now. Project A will yield $400,000 a year for three years, beginning one year from now. Project B will yield $1.25 million three years from now, and Project C will yield $600,000 for two years, beginning two years from now. If the interest rate is 8 percent, which of these projects should the firm undertake?
A. Project A
B. Project B
C. Project C
D. none of these
Answer: A
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A) marginal rate of substitution. B) marginal rate of technical substitution. C) slope of the isocost curve. D) average product of the input.
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a. is kept the same from year to year so that the effects of price changes are isolated from the effect of any quantity changes that might be occurring at the same time. b. is kept the same from year to year; otherwise, the value of the index would remain constant from year to year. c. varies from year to year; otherwise, the value of the index would remain constant from year to year. d. varies from year to year so that consumers' buying patterns are updated in a timely fashion.
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a) if firms have less monopoly power b) if workers have less monopoly power c) if firms have monopoly power but workers have none d) if both firms and workers have monopoly power e) if there is no monopoly power