If Pat can produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than Chris can, then
a. Pat has a comparative advantage in producing the good or service
b. no gains are possible through specialization
c. Pat must have an absolute advantage in producing the good or service
d. Pat must be more talented than Chris
e. society is at a point along its production possibilities frontier
A
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Consider the change in the price of a book depicted in the above figure. The original budget line is BC. The new budget line is BD. As a result of this price change, the income effect can be represented by a movement from
A) point E to point F. B) point G to point A. C) point G to point F. D) point A to point F.
If an individual buys only two goods and these must be used in a fixed relationship with one another (e.g., coffee and cream for a coffee drinker who never varies the amount of cream used in each cup), then
a. there is no substitution effect from a change in the price of coffee. b. there is no income effect from a change in the price of coffee. c. Giffen's Paradox must occur if both coffee and cream are inferior goods. d. an increase in income will not affect cream purchases.
In the long run, a monopolistically competitive firm’s demand curve must be tangent to its average cost curve.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
One characteristic of a Giffen good is that it
A) is a luxury good. B) is an inferior good. C) has an upward-sloping Engel curve. D) All of the above.