A price floor is
A) the highest possible legal price that can be charged for a good or service.
B) usually equal to the equilibrium price established before the government imposed the price floor.
C) the lowest legal price at which a good or service can be traded.
D) a legal price of zero that can be charged for a good or service.
E) almost always equal to the price ceiling.
C
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A) $8,484 B) $8,613 C) $8,738 D) $8,822
If your income goes down by10% and, in response, the quantity demanded of good x falls by 20%, the income elasticity of demand would be:
a. 2 b. 4 c. .5 d. .20
According to Keynesian economists,
a. the economy will return quickly to full employment in most cases b. if output is below its potential, the economy will soon return to full employment c. production can be stuck below its full-employment level for extended periods of time d. the Great Depression proved that classical economics does a good job of explaining how the economy operates e. he economy will achieve full employment in the short run but, in the long run, GDP will fluctuate
In a 20-firm industry, two of the smallest firms merge. Yet the 4-firm concentration ratio and the 8-firm concentration ratio did not change. All things considered, we can say that the industry has
A) moved closer to pure competition because the number of firms decreased. B) moved farther away from competition because the number of firms decreased. C) experienced no change in competition even though the number of firms decreased. D) to be identified first; otherwise there is no way to tell.