Use a long-run average cost curve graph to illustrate how diseconomies of scale would not make it beneficial for two companies to go through with a merger

What will be an ideal response?


Assume the two companies are on ATC1. If they merge, they would move to ATC2 and be on the section of the long-run average cost curve that exhibits diseconomies of scale.

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What will be an ideal response?

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The economy's self-correcting mechanism ensures that neither recessionary nor inflationary gaps will be eliminated eventually

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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If the amount of money in circulation is $50 billion and the nominal GDP is $200 billion, the velocity of money is

a. 0.25 b. 0.75. c. 2. d. 4.

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a. decreasing returns to scale b. consent returns to scale c. economies of scale d. increasing returns to scale

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