Economic fluctuations are defined as
a. alternating periods of significant GDP growth and decline.
b. events only encountered in developing countries.
c. periods of stable economic growth.
d. alternating periods of unemployment falling above and below zero.
a
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Consider a Wal-Mart supercenter and a 7-Eleven store. In the long run,
A) Wal-Mart or 7-Eleven may have economies of scale depending on how many customers are served. B) Wal-Mart will definitely have lower average costs because supercenters serve many more customers. C) The 7-Eleven store will definitely have lower average costs because their small stores are cheaper to build. D) Wal-Mart's average total cost will decline faster than the 7-Eleven store and experience diseconomies of scale. E) The 7-Eleven store's average total cost will be lower than Wal-Mart's and always experience economies of scale.
Government stabilization policy
A. cannot influence investment spending. B. can stimulate aggregate demand and thereby induce businesses to invest, but the amount is not totally predictable. C. can stimulate aggregate demand, but investment spending will not be affected. D. can stimulate aggregate demand, but only in the long run.
In a long-run equilibrium in a monopolistically competitive industry that produces information products, revenues are equal to the ________ costs of developing, producing, and selling the product
A) total B) fixed C) variable D) marginal
If a firm is a perfectly competitive purchaser of factor inputs and the wage rate is $5, the marginal factor cost for labor is
A) greater than $5. B) less than $5. C) $5. D) indeterminate.