The Stackelberg outcome differs from the Cournot equilibrium because:
a. the games involve different strategic variables.
b. the first mover can commit to an output off its best-response function.
c. quantity supplied is not equal to quantity demanded at the prevailing price.
d. it's not a perfectly competitive outcome.
b
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Based on the figure below. Starting from long-run equilibrium at point C, a tax increase that decreases aggregate demand from AD1 to AD will lead to a short-run equilibrium at point ________ and eventually to a long-run equilibrium at point ________, if left to self-correcting tendencies.
A. D; C B. D; B C. A; B D. B; C
The labor force participation rate includes
A) only those employed but looking for a job. B) both employed workers and discouraged workers not seeking jobs. C) both employed workers and those unemployed but seeking employment. D) only those who are employed.
If a monopolist's price is $50 at 63 units of output and marginal revenue equals marginal cost, and average total cost equals $43, then the firm's total profit is
A) $3,150. B) $2,709. C) $441. D) $7.
Grace Makutsi finally bought a pair of blue shoes that she had been coveting for a long time. In less than a week she discovered that the shoes were uncomfortable. Grace went back to wearing her old pair and stashed away the new pair
When asked by her boss, Mme. Ramotswe, why does she not simply give away the new pair, she said: "But I paid so much for them." Grace's behavior A) supports the endowment effect which states that ownership of an item makes it more valuable. B) is rational because the more you pay for an item the more valuable it is. C) ignores the fact that the purchase price is now a sunk cost and has no bearing on whether she should give them away or not. D) is rational: she should not discard a valuable item.