Which of the following is a possible market solution to the lemons problem?
A) Producers might offer product guarantees and warranties.
B) Producers might be required to meet certain legal standards to obtain licenses granting the right to sell their products.
C) Government agencies might be charged with directly overseeing production and distribution of certain products.
D) Liability laws might be established to ensure that firms selling certain products must face penalties in the event the products function poorly.
Answer: A
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A) withdrawals; increase; expands B) reserves; increase; expands C) withdrawals; decrease; expands D) reserves; increase; contracts
In early 2007, Pioneer and JVC, two Japanese electronics firms, each announced that their profits were going to be lower than expected because they both had to cut prices for LCD and plasma television sets. Which of the following could explain why these
firms did not simply raise their prices and increase their profits? A) The move to cut prices is probably just a temporary one to gain market share. In the long run the firms will raise prices and be able to increase their profits. B) Most likely, intense competition between these two major producers probably pushed prices down. Thereafter, each feared that it would lose its customers to the other if it raised its prices. C) In perfect competition, prices are determined by the market and firms will keep lowering prices until there are no profits to be earned. D) The firms are still making profits, just not as high as expected so there is room to lower prices until one can force the other out of business.
Given a fixed upsloping AS curve, a rightward shift of the AD curve will:
A. cause cost-push inflation. B. increase real output but not the price level. C. increase the price level but not real output. D. increase both the price level and real output.
At equilibrium, quantity demanded is _____ equal to quantity supplied.
A. always B. usually C. sometimes D. never