Assume a group of firms has formed a cartel and the cartel is in engaged in joint profit maximization. As such, each firm, acting in its own interests, has an incentive to expand production up to the point at which:
A) its marginal cost equals the marginal revenue earned by the cartel.
B) its marginal cost equals the cartel-determined price of the product being sold.
C) its marginal revenue equals the cartel's marginal costs of production.
D) its marginal cost equals the cartel-determined marginal revenue from the good being sold.
B
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"Coffee Prices Sink As Demand Falls." The newspaper heading
A) assumes the law of demand does not hold. B) confuses demand with quantity demanded. C) misunderstands the role of supply in price formation. D) reverses the actual relationship between price and demand. E) uses the concept of demand correctly.
Quotas that limit the quantity of imports of a foreign good provide an incentive for foreign suppliers to: I. Provide higher quality goods. II. Seek more open markets elsewhere. III. Lower prices to be more competitive. IV. Stop all trade with the country imposing the quotas. Which of the above statements are true?
a. I and II. b. I and III. c. II and IV. d. I, III, and IV. e. III only.
A public good, such as a community's emergency warning sirens, typically
a. imposes benefits on only a few individuals but imposes costs on many people b. imposes both benefits and costs on relatively few individuals c. imposes benefits on many individuals but imposes the costs on relatively few people d. imposes both benefits and costs on many individuals e. only imposes costs on individuals when logrolling is prevalent in the government
According to the textbook, if the government had taxed everyone who earned more than $1 million an income tax rate of 100 percent in 2012, the budget deficit for that year would have been completely eliminated
Indicate whether the statement is true or false