In the long run, both monopolistic competition and perfect competition result in:

a. a wide variety of brand-name choices for consumers.
b. an efficient allocation of resources.
c. zero economic profit for firms.
d. excess capacity.


c

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A. A person trading a desk for a box of tools. B. The purchase of stock on the New York Stock Exchange. C. A person buying clothes at a used clothing store. D. A gift of tuition money from parents to their children.

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If a large number of people were to leave their civilian jobs and join the military, which of the following would increase?

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The natural rate hypothesis concludes that when the inflation rate unexpectedly increases, the unemployment rate ________

But when the higher inflation rate becomes the expected inflation rate, the unemployment rate then ________ until it reaches the ________ unemployment rate. A) decreases; decreases; natural B) increases; decreases; natural C) decreases; increases; natural D) increases; decreases; minimum E) decreases; increases; maximum

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