Suppose you are the manager of a plastic recycle industry. In the industry, there are 5 large recycling firms and 20 small firms. You are aware that the large firms have a marginal benefit curve from industrywide advertising that lies above the small firms' marginal benefit curve. Which of the following payment plans is least likely to create discord across the participating firms?
A) Place the large firms into Group 1 and the small firms into Group 2 and require the firms in each respective group to pay the same amount with the firms in Group 1 paying a fee that is smaller than the fee paid by Group 2 firms.
B) Have each firm pay the exact same fee.
C) Have each firm pay the average marginal benefit of industrywide advertising across all firms.
D) Place the large firms into Group 1 and the small firms into Group 2 and require the firms in each respective group to pay the same amount with the firms in Group 1 paying a fee that is greater than the fee paid by Group 2 firms.
D) Place the large firms into Group 1 and the small firms into Group 2 and require the firms in each respective group to pay the same amount with the firms in Group 1 paying a fee that is greater than the fee paid by Group 2 firms.
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a. Always. b. Whenever the good is a non-Giffen good. c. Only when the good is normal. d. Only when the good is inferior.
The interest-rate-based approach to the monetary policy transmission mechanism says that a change in the money supply influences aggregate demand by
A) a change in interest rates, which changes investment. B) a change in interest rates, which changes the money supply. C) leading to shifts of the short-run aggregate supply curve. D) changing consumer consumption behavior as they adjust to a change in the number of dollars available.
In the above figure, if this natural monopolist were unregulated, the profit maximizing firm would produce
A) at Q1 output rate. B) at Q2 output rate. C) at Q3 output rate. D) past the Q3 output rate.
Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons for declining union membership in the United States?
A) The economy has shifted away from manufacturing. B) The AFL-CIO merger and creation of the Change to Win Federation reduced competition among unions. C) Some industries have been deregulated. D) Labor force participation by women has increased.