A perfectly competitive firm cannot practice price discrimination because
A) each consumer in a perfectly competitive market has the same willingness to pay.
B) the firm can only charge the market price.
C) a firm that breaks even in the long run cannot afford to engage in yield management.
D) it does not advertise; this prevents the firm from marketing its product to different segments of the market.
B
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In the short run, when production goes up what typically happens to total variable costs?
What will be an ideal response?
If the per-worker production function shifts down,
A) the per-worker production function becomes steeper. B) it now takes more capital per hour worked to get the same amount of real GDP per hour worked. C) an economy can increase its real GDP per hour worked without changing the level of capital per hour worked. D) positive technological change has occurred in the economy.
Increases in both labor and capital productivity will result in:
A) downward shift of the average and marginal product curves and upward shift of the average cost curves. B) downward shift of the average and marginal product curves and downward shift of the average cost curves. C) upward shift of the average and marginal product curves and downward shift of the average cost curves. D) upward shift of the average and marginal product curves and upward shift of the average cost curves.
If you expect a general price increase of 5% this year and the price of the hamburgers you sell increases by 10%, you would conclude that the relative price of your good has
A) declined, and you would increase your output. B) declined, and you would decrease your output. C) increased, and you would increase your output. D) increased, and you would decrease your output.