While smoking is on the decline in the United States, China is still puffing away madly. That's not because the government is eager to protect its citizens from the hazards of smoking. It's because China is eager to protect its own tobacco industry which is a state monopoly. How would entry of foreign companies into the tobacco market affect the economic profit of the state monopoly?
A) Its economic profits would increase because of rent seeking activity.
B) Its economic profits would decrease because of increased competition.
C) Its economic profits would increase because of increased competition.
D) Its economic profits would decrease because of rent seeking activity.
Answer is B) Its economic profits would decrease because of increased competition.
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A) expansionary fiscal policy B) expansionary monetary policy C) contractionary monetary policy D) contractionary fiscal policy
A market will be efficient even if there is imperfect information as long as the market is competitive.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Build-Right Concrete Products produces specialty cement used in construction of highways. Build-Right is a price-setting firm and estimates the demand for its cement by the State Highway Department using a demand function in the nonlinear form:Q = aPbMc
where Q = yards of cement demanded monthly, P = the price of Build-Right's cement per yard, M = state tax revenues per capita, and PR = the price of asphalt per yard. The manager at Build-Right transforms the nonlinear relation into a linear relation for estimation. The estimation results are presented below: 
height="198" width="577" />Given the above, if the price of asphalt (PR) decreases 20%, the estimated quantity of cement demanded will: A. increase 1.2% B. increase 12% C. decrease 1.2%. D. decrease 12%. E. increase 6%
Nothing raises the standard of living more than a greater
A. abundance of goods. B. effort of production. C. population. D. number of import tariffs. E. All of the above are true.