Suppose that consumers expect the price of a product to decrease in the future. The result is that:
A. the current demand for the product increases.
B. the current demand for the product decreases.
C. the current supply of the product increases.
D. the current supply of the product decreases.
Answer: B
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Refer to the table below. If at the current advertising level, A = $9,800, B = $15,200, and C = $8,000, to maximize profit, which of the following should the firm do?
The table above shows the current costs for a firm to advertising on the radio, television, and newspaper.
A) The firm should decrease its advertising on the radio and increase its advertising in newspapers.
B) The firm should decrease its advertising on the television and increase its advertising in newspapers.
C) The firm should increase its advertising on the television and decrease its advertising in newspapers.
D) The firm should decrease its advertising on the radio and increase its advertising on television.
When the errors are heteroskedastic, then
A) WLS is efficient in large samples, if the functional form of the heteroskedasticity is known. B) OLS is biased. C) OLS is still efficient as long as there is no serial correlation in the error terms. D) weighted least squares is efficient.
Increasing aggregate demand with fiscal policy may have undesirable inflationary consequences
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Profit can be defined as the
a. difference between the sales revenue of a business firm and the opportunity cost of the resources required to produce the goods supplied by the firm. b. difference between a company's income and direct monetary costs of production. c. difference between the price of a product and the consumer's valuation of the good. d. amount of total revenue earned by the firm minus its payments to stockholders.