Which of the following is the best example of a perfectly competitive market?
A) farming
B) diamonds
C) athletic shoes
D) soft drinks
E) electricity distribution
A
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Beautification of the national highways through the planting of shrubs and wildflowers will
A) be profitable for a private landscaping company because they can charge passing drivers. B) benefit even people who do not help pay. C) provide a flow of services that are rival in consumption. D) provide a flow of services that involve excludable consumption.
The above figure shows the marginal benefit to a firm of polluting in the local river while producing its output, and the marginal cost to the surrounding neighbors. The marginal cost of production is zero for the firm
According to Coase's Theorem, which of the following scenarios is most likely to lead to the socially optimal level of pollution? A) The firm owns the river and there are a thousand surrounding neighbors. B) The firm owns the river and there is just one nearby neighbor. C) The river is jointly owned by one thousand surrounding neighbors. D) The firm owns the river, and therefore produces the social optimum no matter what.
For computers and other business equipment, small changes in business earnings tend to generate relatively large short-run changes in the demand for this equipment
In the long run, the responsiveness of demand for business equipment with respect to income changes tends to be: A) even more responsive. B) less responsive. C) equally responsive. D) none of the above
A market with many sellers, some influence over price, low barriers to entry, a differentiated product, and non-price competition often taking the form of advertising is known as
A) perfect competition. B) monopolistic competition. C) oligopoly. D) monopoly.