Define the normal rate of return. If a business has fairly steady revenues and the future looks secure, what should the normal rate of return equal? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
The normal rate of return is the rate of profit that is just sufficient to keep owners and investors satisfied. The normal rate of return would be the return on risk-free government bonds because that would be the next best alternative.
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If the abatement level were 20 percent, what would be the levels of MACmktand MCE? What do these values convey about total abatement costs incurred by polluting sources and by government at this 20 percent abatement level?
What will be an ideal response?
An explicit cost is defined as
A) a nonmonetary accounting cost. B) a cost that involves spending money. C) a nonmonetary opportunity cost. D) a cost that does not change as output changes.
Individual price discrimination is used when
A) firms are dealing with individual consumers, such as in a line at the coffee shop. B) firms cannot easily determine consumers' reservation prices. C) firms are selling to non-local buyers. D) salespeople are in a difficult industry, such as auto sales.
Refer to the table below. Suppose the profit for each unit of paper product is $3.00 and the profit for each unit of lumber is $13.50 and Big Oaks is producing the profit-maximizing quantity of lumber and paper products. If the profit from each unit of lumber increases from $13.50 to $15.00 and the profit for each unit of paper products does not change, to maximize profit, Big Oaks should produce
a ________ proportion of lumber and produce ________ units of paper products and lumber.
Big Oaks can produce either paper products or lumber with each tree that they harvest. Because Big Oaks can adjust the amount of paper products and lumber they produce from the harvested trees, paper products and lumber are produced in variable proportions. The above table summarizes Big Oaks production possibilities from each harvested tree.
A) smaller; less
B) smaller; more
C) greater; more
D) greater; less