When a perfectly competitive market is in long-run equilibrium, price is equal to marginal cost, the individual firm is operating at the minimum of its short-run and long-run average cost curves, and economic profit equals zero
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
TRUE
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Demand curves for the services of productive resources
A) have no meaning, because people must have income in order to live. B) obey the law of demand. C) tend to be perfectly elastic in the long run because any resource can ultimately function as a substitute for any other. D) tend to be perfectly inelastic in the short run as long as production processes are determined by technology.
Suppose the observed annual quantity of steel exchanged in the European market is 30 million metric tons, and the observed market price is 90 euros per ton
If the price elasticity of demand for steel is -0.3 in Europe, what is an appropriate value for the price coefficient (b) in a linear demand function Q = a - bP? A) b = 0.9 B) b = -0.9 C) b = 0.1 D) b = -0.1
Debtors gain and creditors lose when
A) the anticipated rate of inflation is greater than the actual rate of inflation. B) the anticipated rate of inflation is less than the actual rate of inflation. C) the anticipated rate of inflation is the same as the unanticipated rate of inflation. D) the unanticipated rate of inflation is zero.
Say that the equilibrium price of natural gas would be $5 per thousand cubic feet, but there is a price ceiling imposed at $3 per thousand cubic feet. That price ceiling is then lowered to $2 per thousand cubic feet. As a result, a. the shortage of natural gas will get worse
b. the shortage of natural gas will get less severe. c. the surplus of natural gas will get worse. d. the surplus of natural gas will get less severe.