Oligopolists have an incentive to coordinate price because with coordination
A. The market demand curve is perfectly inelastic.
B. Each firm faces a relatively inelastic demand for its product.
C. Each firm faces a perfectly inelastic demand for its product.
D. The demand for each firm's product is kinked.
Answer: B
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
All of the following are true regarding the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection except which one?
A) It relies on consumers and competitors to report false advertising. B) It is a federal agency. C) It generally tries to convince companies to cease or alter false advertising. D) It cannot bring a civil case against a firm's managers for false advertising.
The law of demand says that as the price of a good rises,
a. buyers recognize that price may be even higher in the future, and so they buy now b. buyers purchase less in hopes that the price will fall in the future c. buyers purchase less, in part because their real income has fallen d. buyers purchase more, in part because the price of a substitute has risen e. buyers purchase more, in part because it has higher status at a higher price
Assume an Australian importer expects to pay 16,000 Australian dollars (AUD) for $8,000 worth of U.S. goods, but on the shipment date 30 days later, the same volume of U.S. goods costs the Australian importer only 10,000 Australian dollars. This means that between the contract date and the payment date, the exchange rate has changed:
a. from $1 = 1.25 AUD to $1 = 2.0 AUD. b. from $1 = 2.0 AUD to $1 = 1.25 AUD. c. from $1 = 0.8 AUD to $1 = 0.5 AUD. d. from $1 = 0.5 AUD to $1 = 0.8 AUD. e. from $1 = 0.5 AUD to $1 = 2.0 AUD.