A necessary condition for "perfect competition" is

A) price searchers.
B) price takers.
C) legal restrictions on entry into the market.
D) a small number of huge firms.
E) widespread and long-run economic profits.


B

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A) Increase the price of their grain.
B) Shut down.
C) Advertise their product.
D) Attempt to keep other firms from entering the market.

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Adverse selection is

a. when people act differently because they are insured b. when more risk averse people want to be insured more c. when people at a greater risk want to be insured more d. when your guess at a test question is wrong

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An economy eliminates a recessionary gap by reducing wages and prices

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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If the technology, the nature of competition, or the regulatory environment change in an industry, then

A. the organizational architecture will be able to restore the former market environment. B. a good organizational architecture will shut down. C. the appropriate organizational architecture will change too. D. the industry will increase production.

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