Suppose you are the manager of a large cardboard box industry. In the industry, there are 10 very large firms and 15 small firms. You are aware that the very large firms have a greater marginal benefit from industrywide advertising compared to the small firms. Which of the following payment plans is least likely to create discord across the participating firms?
A) Have each firm pay the exact same fee.
B) Have each firm pay the average marginal benefit of industrywide advertising across all firms.
C) Place the very large firms into Group 1 and the small firms into Group 2 and require the firms in each respective group to pay the same amount with the firms in Group 1 paying a fee that is greater than the fee paid by Group 2 firms.
D) Place the very large firms into Group 1 and the small firms into Group 2 and require the firms in each respective group to pay the same amount with the firms in Group 1 paying a fee that is smaller than the fee paid by Group 2 firms.
C) Place the very large firms into Group 1 and the small firms into Group 2 and require the firms in each respective group to pay the same amount with the firms in Group 1 paying a fee that is greater than the fee paid by Group 2 firms.
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When government regulations force a natural monopoly to produce where price equals average total cost, social welfare is
a. maximized b. less than it would be without regulation c. greater than it would be without regulation, but it is not maximized d. exactly the same as it would be without regulation e. minimized
A firm produces its product using both capital and labor. When it does not change its capital usage, but doubles its labor input, its output increases by less than 50 percent. Which of the following is the most likely explanation of this finding?
A. the principle of opportunity cost B. the principle of diminishing returns C. the marginal principle D. the spillover principle
As the demand for corn increases to provide input for ethanol production, what is expected to happen to the price elasticity of corn supply?
A) It will decrease. B) It will become zero. C) It will increase. D) It will not change.
Perfectly elastic demand has an elasticity value of zero.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)