If a perfectly competitive firm maximizes short-run profits, its marginal revenue will be positive and less than its price
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
TRUE
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Since Germany is a large open economy, the increase in German borrowing and investment in what was formerly East Germany in the early 1990s resulted in
A) a decline in the world real interest rate. B) a shift to the right in the German supply of loanable funds curve. C) an increase in the real interest rate in the United States. D) a shift to the left in the German demand for loanable funds curve.
If the real interest rate in the economy is i and the expected rate of return on additional investment is r, then other things equal:
A. investment will take place until i and r are equal. B. investment will take place until r exceeds i by the greatest amount. C. r will rise as more investment is undertaken. D. i will fall as more investment is undertaken.
Refer to the information provided in Figure 2.5 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
Figure 2.5Refer to Figure 2.5. For this economy to move from Point C to Point B, ________ additional LCD TVs could be produced when the production of OLED TVs is reduced by 20.
A. exactly 30 B. exactly 60 C. fewer than 30 D. more than 30
A chemical factory and a fishing club share a lake. Producing chemicals creates water pollution that harms the fish. The marginal social cost, private marginal cost, and marginal benefit from producing chemicals are in the figure above
Initially the lake is owned by no one. Keeping in mind the Coase theorem, if transactions costs are low then if the chemical factory owns the lake ________ tons of chemicals will be produced and if the fishing club owns the lake, ________ tons of chemicals will be produced. A) 4; 4 B) 4; 8 C) 8; 4 D) 8; 8