What is the "store of value" function of money?
a. A common measurement of the relative value of different goods and services.
b. The ability of money to hold value over time
c. The quality of money not to be hoarded because of its commodity value.
d. The function of money to be widely accepted I exchange for goods and services.
b
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A perfectly competitive market has demand Q = 100 - P and supply Q = P - 10. An individual firm has MC = 10 + 2Q.
(a) What is the market equilibrium price and quantity? (b) How much output should the individual firm produce? (c) Although it is has been claimed that this market is perfectly competitive, do your answers to parts (a) and (b) suggest differently?
In the context of the evaluation of the efficient markets hypothesis, pricing anomalies refer to
A) the existence of trading strategies that appear to have offered above-normal returns. B) the gap between actual and expected prices. C) the spread between the price at which a broker will purchase stock from an investor and the price at which the broker will sell stock to an investor. D) the difficulty in practice of computing stock prices on the basis of expectations of future dividends.
A government action that can help correct positive externalities is
A) a tax on producers of the good that provides external benefits. B) a subsidy to consumers of the good that provides external benefits. C) an effluent fee charged to producers of the good that provides external benefits. D) regulations aimed at reduced production by sellers of the good that provides external benefits.
In the short run, a firm will eventually experience rising per-unit costs because of:
a. economies of scale. b. diseconomies of scale. c. the law of supply. d. the law of diminishing returns.