For a firm in a perfectly competitive market, if it is producing at a level of output where marginal costs are equal to marginal revenue it:
A. is producing a profit-maximizing quantity.
B. should cut back production to increase profits.
C. should increase production to increase profits.
D. is impossible to tell how quantity should be changed without more information.
Answer: A
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In the diagrams above, AD1 and AS1 represent the initial state of an economy. If full-employment output is at Q2, which diagram represents the adjustment back to full employment output in the absence of government intervention? ________.
A. panel (A) only B. panel (B) only C. panel (C) only D. panels (B) and (C)
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a. The demand curve for laptops shifts to the right b. The demand curve for laptops shifts to the left c. The supply curve for laptops shifts to the right d. The supply curve for laptops shifts to the left
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a. The net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balancebecomes more positive (or less negative) and monetary base rises. b. The net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balancebecomes more negative (or less positive) and monetary base falls. c. The net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balancebecomes more positive (or less negative) and monetary base stays the same. d. The net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balanceand monetary base remain the same. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.