In the long run, a perfectly competitive market will exhibit
a. zero producer surplus
b. zero consumer surplus
c. positive economic profit
d. allocative and productive efficiency
e. allocative but not productive efficiency
D
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According to the interest-rate-based perspective on the monetary policy transmission mechanism
A) changes in the money supply have little influence on macroeconomic variables. B) key channels of monetary policy indirectly ultimately relate money supply changes to total planned spending through indirect effects on planned investment. C) inflation is always caused by excessive monetary growth and changes in the money supply offset aggregate demand only directly. D) monetary policy leads to increases in the price level but will have no effect on the rate of output.
The concept of economic rent is associated with the British economist David Ricardo (1772-1823). Ricardo analyzed economic rent for land. Which of the following is FALSE with respect to determining land rent?
A) The supply curve for land is vertical (perfectly inelastic). B) Rent is payment for a resource above its opportunity cost. C) Payment for a resource below its opportunity cost is rent. D) Ricardo assumed the quantity of land in a country is fixed.
One reason why producers have an incentive to organize in favor of protection is because
A) producer gains are spread across so many firms that no one gets a large share of the benefits. B) producer gains are relatively concentrated. C) there is no real cost to the economy. D) producer gains outweigh consumer losses.
If Techland's government reduces tax rates, ________
A) the economy's labor demand curve will shift to the left B) the economy's labor supply curve will shift to the left C) the economy's aggregate supply curve will shift to the left D) the economy's labor demand curve will shift to the right