Cost-price pricing typically does not result in profit-maximization. As a result, economists have two views of cost-plus pricing. One of these views is
A) cost-plus pricing is a good way to approximate the profit-maximizing price when marginal revenue or marginal cost is difficult to determine.
B) cost-plus pricing is more likely to lead to profit-maximization for monopolistically competitive firms than for oligopoly firms.
C) cost-plus pricing is more likely to result in profit-maximization the more elastic the firm's demand curve is.
D) cost-plus pricing is more likely to lead to profit-maximization for large firms than for small firms.
A
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Which of the following is true regarding scarcity?
a. Scarcity could be eliminated if all economies of the world would work together to solve world hunger. b. Scarcity could be eliminated if we had full employment. c. It is impossible to eliminate scarcity, given limited resources and unlimited wants. d. Scarcity could be eliminated if all economies of the world would adopt communism. e. Scarcity could be eliminated if all economies of the world would adopt a free market system.
The nominal interest rate is 5 percent and the inflation rate is 2 percent. What is the real interest rate?
a. 7 percent b. 2.5 percent c. 10 percent d. 3 percent
Exhibit 11-5 A perfectly competitive labor market Quantity of Labor (thousands) Marginal Revenue Product Wage Rate 5 $25.00$ 5.00 10 20.0010.00 1515.0015.00 2010.0020.00 255.0025.00? ? In Exhibit 11-5, when the marginal revenue product is $20.00, firms should
A. continue hiring workers. B. stop hiring workers. C. start firing workers. D. pay a wage above $15.00 to its workers
Under both perfect competition and monopoly, a firm:
A. is a price taker. B. is a price maker. C. will shut down in the short-run if price falls short of average total cost. D. sets marginal cost equal to marginal revenue.