If the elasticity for yachts is three, a tax on yachts will ___________ total revenue.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
lower
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KFC raises the price of its grilled chicken. The price elasticity of demand for KFC grilled chicken is 0.8. What happens to the KFC's total revenue?
A) nothing B) It increases. C) It decreases. D) It becomes negative. E) It might change, but more information is needed to determine if it increases, decreases, or does not change.
A monopoly is best defined as a firm that
A) produces a good or service for which no close substitute exists and which is protected by a barrier that prevents other firms from selling that good or service. B) purchases its resources from only one supplier because of a barrier preventing it from buying from other suppliers. C) produces a good or service for which no close substitute exists and that sells all its output to one buyer because there is barrier preventing other buyers from purchasing the good or service. D) cannot control the price it sets for its good or service because there is barrier that prevents the firm from changing the price.
Determining the optimal choice of input combinations generally does not involve
a. substitution of one input for another. b. fixing the level of technology in the long run. c. minimizing cost, given the prices of inputs. d. assessing the productivity of various inputs.
A worldwide slowdown in productivity growth occurred:
A. in the 1970s and 1980s. B. in the 1950s and 1960s. C. before 1950. D. in the 1960s and 1970s.