All firms in a perfect competition industry
A. produce identical products.
B. lose money.
C. produce differentiated products.
D. are price makers.
Answer: A
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A. higher; higher B. higher; potential C. lower; higher D. lower; potential
The textbook for your class was not produced in a perfectly competitive industry because
A) there are so few firms in the industry that market shares are not small, and firms' decisions have an impact on market price. B) upper-division microeconomics texts are not all alike. C) it is not costless to enter or exit the textbook industry. D) of all of the above reasons.
If a perfectly competitive firm is currently employing workers to the point where the value of the last worker's marginal product is equal to the wage rate, and the government imposes a minimum wage higher than the value of the worker's marginal
product, we can predict that A) the firm will pay the higher wage rate and not change the number of workers hired. B) the firm will no longer employ the marginal worker. C) the firm will increase its price. D) the firm will employ more workers.
Both President Bush and President Obama wanted tax cuts to stimulate consumer spending during the 2007-2009 recession
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false