Assume that for a particular firm's output price = $80, marginal cost = $30, average total cost = $25. This information suggests that the firm in question has:

A) no market power.
B) very little market power.
C) a fair degree of market power.
D) absolute market power.


C

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Starting from long-run equilibrium, a large tax cut will result in a(n) ________ gap in the short-run and ________ inflation and ________ output in the long-run.

A. expansionary; higher; higher B. expansionary; higher; potential C. recessionary; higher; potential D. recessionary; lower; lower

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Based on the figure below. Starting from long-run equilibrium at point C, a tax cut that increases aggregate demand from AD to AD1 will lead to a short-run equilibrium at point ________ and eventually to a long-run equilibrium at point ________, if left to self-correcting tendencies. 

A. D; C B. B; C C. B; A D. D; B

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Which of the following events will increase the quantity demanded of bottled water?

A) a fall in the price of bottled water B) a rise in the price of bottled water C) a rise in the price of a fitness club membership D) a fall in the price of soda E) an increase in the number of buyers of bottled water

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If an economist is trying to figure out, in a certain situation, “What would happen if?”, then that economist is working in the area of

a. normative economics. b. positive economics. c. the theory of the firm. d. welfare economics.

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