When the supply of labor to a firm is perfectly elastic the marginal factor cost will equal the
A) market price of the product.
B) wage rate.
C) marginal physical product.
D) wage rate times the number of workers.
B
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Refer to Figure 26-7. Suppose the economy is in a recession and no policy is pursued. Using the static AD-AS model in the figure above, this situation would be depicted as a movement from
A) B to A. B) C to D. C) A to B. D) C to B. E) A to E.
Where a firm generates beneficial externalities, society would be better off if
A. the firm produced a larger output level. B. the firm reduced its output level. C. a tax was levied on the firm equal to the dollar amount of the externalities. D. price was reduced below marginal private cost.
The production possibilities frontier
A) depicts the boundary between those combinations of goods and services that can be produced and those that cannot given resources and the current state of technology. B) shows how many goods and services are consumed by each person in a country. C) is a model that assumes there is no scarcity and no opportunity cost. D) is a graph with price on the vertical axis and income on the horizontal axis.
Refer to the information provided in Figure 2.4 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
Figure 2.4According to Figure 2.4, as the economy moves from Point D to Point B, the opportunity cost of hybrid cars, measured in terms of motorcycles,
A. initially increases, then decreases. B. increases. C. remains constant. D. decreases.