Characteristics of a perfectly competitive market include:
A. the presence of transaction costs.
B. homogenous products.
C. few sellers, each with a large market share.
D. All of these are characteristics of a perfectly competitive market.
B. homogenous products.
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In the multiple-polluter case, each firm faced with an emission charge imposed as a marginal tax (MT) abates as long as
a. its MAC
As the term “opportunity cost” is defined in the text, the opportunity cost of going to college includes
A. both tuition and the value of the student’s time. B. tuition but not the value of the student’s time, which is a cash cost. C. the value of the student’s time but not tuition, which is a monetary cost. D. neither tuition nor the value of the student’s time, since obtaining a college degree makes one’s income higher in the future. E. neither tuition nor the value of the student’s time, at least at subsidized state universities.
If the number of unemployed workers in an economy is 4 million, and the size of the labor force in the economy is 16 million, the unemployment rate in the economy is:
A) 8 percent. B) 4 percent. C) 30 percent. D) 25 percent.
How does a market system prevent people from getting as many goods and services as they wish?
A) In a market system, firms can charge any price they want, thus preventing poor people from getting as many goods and services as they wish. B) Governments interfere with the market mechanism to influence the allocation of goods and services. C) The market system allocates goods and services to those who are able to pay for those products and therefore income is a limiting factor. D) The government imposes taxes on those who earn beyond a certain amount of income.