The labor supply for an industry would decrease if
A) the wage rate falls.
B) a greater percentage of women want to work outside the home.
C) the percentage of the population from age 16 to 65 decreases.
D) the government welcomes foreign workers into the country.
C
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Which of the following statements is true?
A) Optimizers with the highest opportunity cost of time push up the rental price of apartments with the highest commute time. B) Optimizers with the lowest opportunity cost of time push up the rental price of apartments with the lowest commute time. C) As the rental prices of downtown apartments rise, only workers with the highest opportunity cost of time will be willing to rent them. D) As the rental prices of downtown apartments rise, only workers with the lowest opportunity cost of time will be willing to rent them.
Suppose the daily demand for Coke and Pepsi in a small city are given by QC = 90 - 100PC + 400(PP - PC) and QP = 90 - 100PP + 400(PC - PP), where QC and QP are the number of cans Coke and Pepsi sell, respectively, in thousands per day. PC and PP are the prices of a can of Coke and Pepsi, respectively, measured in dollars. The marginal cost is $0.45 per can for both Coke and Pepsi. What is the Nash equilibrium price for Pepsi?
A. $0.016 B. $0.45 C. $0.53 D. $0.38
In the above figure for a monopolistically competitive firm, the total economic profit at the profit-maximizing point is
A) $0. B) $240. C) $360. D) $300.
In reference to the long-run firm competitive equilibrium diagram, which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A) In the long run, the firm has no incentive to alter its scale of operations. B) Because profits must be zero in the long run, the firm's short-run average costs (SAC) must equal P at Qe, which occurs at minimum SAC. C) In the long run, the firm operates where price, marginal revenue, marginal cost, short-run minimum average cost, and long-run minimum average cost all are equal. D) In the long run, this firm must be part of a constant-cost industry, because its marginal revenue curve is perfectly elastic.