What is the most important characteristic of monopolistic competition? How do firms behave differently from perfect competitors?
What will be an ideal response?
Product differentiation is the most important characteristic of perfect competition. Product differentiation generates the downward sloping demand curve that a firm faces. With heterogeneous products, monopolistic competitors will advertise and use sales promotion techniques that perfect competitors would not use.
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A firm is spending the profit-maximizing amount on product development when
A) people perceive the firm's product to be better than those of its competitors. B) the marginal cost of product development is equal to the marginal revenue from product development. C) the price of the good is higher than its marginal cost. D) the advertising costs are covered. E) the firm's total revenue exceeds its total costs.
The optimal purchase rule is stated as
A. TU = MU. B. MU = P. C. TU = P. D. MU = 0.
Given: M = 500, V = 9, P = 10, Q = 450. According to the crude quantity theory of money, if M rises to 700, how much would V, P, and Q be?
What will be an ideal response?
You use $50,000 of your own money to start a catering business. During the first year you earn a 5% return on that investment. If the current interest rate is 8%, you earn an economic profit of
A. -$4,000. B. -$2,500. C. -$1,500. D. $4,000.