Generally, any human decision is
A) speculative.
B) perfectly informed.
C) irrational at its base.
D) good.
A
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The only two firms in a market are trying to decide what price to charge. The payoff matrix for this duopoly game is shown above. The payoffs are thousands of dollars of economic profit. Which of the following statements is correct?
A) If the firms play this game repeatedly, one would end up charging $20 and the other $10. B) If the firms cooperate, they could both earn $55,000 in economic profit. C) The Nash equilibrium in this game is for both firms to set P = $20 because that maximizes their combined profit. D) Firm B's strategy is to always set P= $20 because that gives Firm B the highest possible profit. E) If Firm B sets P = $20, then Firm A will maximize its profit by setting its P = $20.
The table above gives data for the nation of Pearl, a small island in the South Pacific. If a supply shock decreases the quantity of real GDP supplied by $6 billion at each price level, the new equilibrium real GDP is
A) $16 billion. B) $19 billion. C) $22 billion. D) $23 billion. E) $17 billion.
Assuming initially that the required reserve ratio = 10%, the currency-deposit ratio = 75%, and the excess reserve ratio = 156%, an increase in the required reserve ratio to 15% causes the M1 money multiplier to ________, everything else held
constant. A) increase from 0.15 to 0.33 B) increase from 0.54 to 0.67 C) decrease from 0.73 to 0.71 D) decrease from 1.67 to 1.54
Suppose a company that produces furniture wax branches out into producing a dusting product like Lemon-Dust-Away. If this expansion is efficient, the company must
a. benefit from vertical integration b. benefit from horizontal integration c. experience economies of scale d. experience economies of scope e. have no transaction costs