Your professor loves her work, teaching economics. She has been offered other positions in the corporate world that would increase her income by 25 percent, but she has decided to continue working as a professor. Her decision would not change unless the marginal

a. cost of teaching increased.
b. benefit of teaching increased.
c. cost of a corporate job increased.
d. benefit of a corporate job decreased.


a

Economics

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An unregulated monopoly finds that its marginal cost exceeds its marginal revenue. In order to increase its profit, the firm will

A) raise its price and decrease its output. B) lower its price and increase its output. C) raise its price and increase its output. D) continue to produce this level of output because any change will lower its profit.

Economics

The demand for a good or service is called a derived demand because it is derived from the demand for the factors of production that produce this good or service

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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In an oligopolistic market, each firm

A) has a constant marginal cost. B) faces a perfectly elastic demand function. C) must consider the reaction of rival firms when making a pricing or output decision. D) produces at minimum average cost in the long run.

Economics

Perfect competition and monopolistic competition are similar in that firms in both types of market structure will

A) act as price takers. B) produce a level of output where price equals marginal cost. C) earn zero profit in the long run. D) act as price setters.

Economics