Producer surplus is the:
A) sum of a seller's reservation value and the price he finally receives.
B) difference between a seller's reservation value and the price he finally receives.
C) product of a seller's reservation value and the price he finally receives.
D) ratio of a seller's reservation value to the price he finally receives.
B
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Profits
A) are a cost of doing business because they are payments to others. B) are not a cost of doing business because they are owed to resource owners. C) are not a cost of doing business because they are often zero or negative. D) are a cost of doing business because entrepreneurs would not incur the risk of starting a business if they didn't expect to earn profits.
Monetarism is a school of thought put forth by ________, who argued that the economy would most likely be at potential GDP
A) Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott B) Milton Friedman C) Robert Lucas and Thomas Sargent D) Karl Marx
According to supply-siders, an switch from taxing income to taxing consumption to will
a. lead to a permanent increase in output-per-worker. b. lead to a temporary increase in output-per-worker. c. lead to a decline in output-per-worker. d. not change output-per-worker.
Suppose that the firms in the perfectly competitive oat industry currently are receiving a price of $2 per bushel for their product. The minimum possible average total cost of producing oats in the long run is $1 per bushel. It follows that:
A. the price of oats will remain at $2 per bushel in the long run. B. the oat industry is in equilibrium. C. firms in the oat industry will earn economic profits in both the long run and the short run. D. new firms will enter the oat industry.