If the government implements a price ceiling on insulin, this will have all of the following effects on the market for insulin except
A) an increase in deadweight loss. B) a decrease in producer surplus.
C) a more efficient equilibrium. D) a decrease in economic surplus.
C
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If the firm in Figure 17-4 above maintains its set price of P0, rather than dropping price to P1, this reduces its profit by
A) K - G. B) K + G. C) G - K. D) G + H. E) G.
Suppose a basket of goods and services has been selected to calculate the CPI and 2012 has been selected as the base year. In 2012, the basket's cost was $50; in 2014, the basket's cost was $51; and in 2016, the basket's cost was $52 . The value of the CPI in 2014 was
a. 98.0. b. 102.0. c. 104.0. d. 151.0.
Decreasing marginal returns occur in the short run as more labor is hired to work in a fixed sized plant because
A) less efficient and less productive workers are hired. B) adding more workers exhausts the possible gains from specialization. C) the entrepreneur does not know how to manage more workers. D) each worker will produce more than the worker previously hired. E) the plant becomes less specialized.
A monopolistic competitor faces a horizontal demand curve.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)