A delivery company lowers its automobile insurance costs as it increases in size because as the size of the fleet of delivery trucks increases, the premium per driver decreases substantially. This is an example of
A. constant returns to scale.
B. diseconomies of scale.
C. diminishing marginal returns.
D. economies of scale.
Answer: D
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A reduction in the supply of labor will cause
A. wages to increase and employment to increase. B. wages to increase and employment to decrease. C. wages to decrease and employment to increase. D. wages to decrease and employment to decrease.
Assume that a country has a domestic demand curve defined as Qd = 100 - 2P and a domestic supply curve defined as Qs = -20 + 3P. What is the autarchy equilibrium price and quantity?
What will be an ideal response?
In the short run, a perfectly competitive firm _____
a. cannot change its costs of production if it buys its inputs from a perfectly competitive market b. can increase the value of its unique product by increasing its advertisement expenditure c. can decrease the price of a good in order to increase its share in the market d. cannot choose to produce the quantity it wants
A key lesson from the payroll tax is that the
a. tax is a tax solely on workers. b. tax is a tax solely on firms that hire workers. c. tax eliminates any wedge that might exist between the wage that firms pay and the wage that workers receive. d. true burden of a tax cannot be legislated.