Suppose that a price-discriminating firm divides its market into two segments. If the firm sells its product for a price of $22 in the market segment where demand is relatively less elastic, the price in the market segment whose customers' demand is more elastic will be
a. $22.
b. greater than $22.
c. less than $22.
d. $22 plus average fixed costs
C
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A major earthquake occurs in the central part of the United States. What impact would this have on the nation's production possibilities frontier and why?
A) It would shift outward because unemployment would be reduced. B) Nothing would happen because the nation would still have the same capabilities. C) A tradeoff would occur to replace the resources and goods destroyed. D) It would shift inward because some of the nation's resources, such as capital and labor, would be destroyed. E) It would not shift because people would get to work to replace any capital that was destroyed.
To encourage more investment, Mexico has lowered its tax rates to reduce the user cost of capital. Argentina is unable to pay back its foreign debts, causing its expected future marginal product of capital to fall
Mexico's real exchange rate will ________ and its net exports will ________. A) depreciate; fall B) appreciate; rise C) depreciate; rise D) appreciate; fall
When the Fed buys bonds
a. the supply of money increases and so aggregate demand shifts right. b. the supply of money decreases and so aggregate demand shifts left. c. the supply of money decreases and so aggregate demand shifts right. d. the supply of money increases and so aggregate demand shifts left.
All of the following are examples of negative effects of imposing rent control except:
A. persons who get a place to live pay lower rent. B. renters must pay non-refundable security deposits. C. producer surplus decreases. D. some people who would have rented apartments before rent control will not rent.