If Quick Auto Service increases the size of its shop, enabling it to purchase cost-saving capital equipment so that the cost of servicing a car falls, this would be an example of

A) economies of scope.
B) economies of scale.
C) monitoring.
D) increasing transactions costs.


B

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Japan has a fairly high saving rate and the level of saving in Japan is above domestic investment. Use the saving and investment equation to explain what Japan is doing with this excess of saving above domestic investment

What will be an ideal response?

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Big Waves is a large water park. Suppose the individual demand for entrance into Big Waves is Qd = 50 - (2 × P) and each consumer has the same demand. Big Waves has a constant marginal cost of $5 per consumer. If Big Waves charges a single entry price to each consumer, what is the profit-maximizing number of entries per consumer?

A) 10 B) 25 C) 20 D) 50

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The classical model does a good job of explaining the __________ while doing poor a job of explaining the __________

a. short run; long run b. business cycle; long run c. short run; business cycle d. unemployment rate; interest rates e. long run; short run

Economics