A monopoly produces widgets at a marginal cost of $10 per unit and zero fixed costs. It faces an inverse demand function given by P = 50 ? Q. Suppose fixed costs rise to $400. What happens in the market?
A. The firm will reduce its output and raise price.
B. The firm continues to produce the same output and charge the same price.
C. The firm will raise the price.
D. The firm will shut down immediately.
Answer: B
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A) average speed with which the Fed increases or decreases the quantity of money. B) ratio between the quantity of money and the price level. C) average number of times in a year each dollar is used to buy goods and services. D) average number of times a dollar is deposited and withdrawn from a bank account. E) average speed with which the nominal interest rate changes when the inflation rate changes.
If psychological limitations and other complications cause people to be unable to examine and think through every possible choice available to them and rely instead on rules of thumb, then these individuals exhibit
A) unbounded rationality. B) normative thinking. C) bounded rationality. D) positive thinking.
We translate nominal income in any past year into constant, real dollars to:
A. allow us to compare changes in purchasing power over time. B. see what an income we were earning in the past would be equivalent to today. C. understand what a salary in the past would equal in current dollars to determine how much more we have actually gained in purchasing power. D. All of these statements are true.
Both public goods and common resources are
a. rival in consumption. b. nonrival in consumption. c. excludable. d. nonexcludable.