Which of the following is the best example of a normative economic statement? Select one: a. The unemployment rate for women has been two times lower the overall rate. b. Increase in competition in the car manufacturing industry will result in price reduction for cars. c. Monopoly makes a decision based on market prices. d. A stronger regulation should be applied to polluting companies. Feedback The correct answer is: A stronger regulation should be applied to polluting companies.. Question 2
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Runninghead: Perfect Competition Gasoline Market: Price and Quality Nathalar Washington Argosy University October 2‚ 2011 Paul Tovbin The choices of gas stations that I have to choose from in my local area are QT‚ Shell‚ and Chevron. I personally liked Chevron for the techron that cleans your engine. But my husband started using QT gas when we moved into this neighbor because there are no Chevron’s close around
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Perfect competition: For a market to be perfectly competitive‚ one of the main criteria is that all firms (and consumers) are price takers. The following conditions are also necessary: 1. There must be many buyers and sellers in the market for an identical product. 2. Firms’ products are identical. 3. Buyers and sellers must be fully informed about prices‚ products‚ and technology. 4. There are no barriers to entry (or exit). 5. Selling firms are profit-maximizing entrepreneurial
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Chapter 8 Sample Multiple Choice Questions 1. In a competitive market‚ no single producer can influence the market price because a. many other sellers are offering a product that is essentially identical. b. consumers have more influence over the market price than producers do. c. government intervention prevents firms from influencing price. d. producers agree not to change the price. Suppose a firm in a competitive market received $1‚000 in total revenue and had a marginal revenue of $10 for the
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Directions: Read the article‚ “A Summary of Health Outcomes: Multistate Foodborne Disease Outbreaks in the U.S.‚ 1998-2007‚” and answer the questions below. • Answers must be complete sentences. • The assignment must be typed and submitted on Tuesday‚ February 19th prior to the exam. 1. What is a multistate FBDO? Multistate FBDO is a outbreaks that either spread to other states or originate from the same vector in multiple states at the same time.
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CHAPTER Perfect Competition 11 After studying this chapter you will be able to ! Define perfect competition ! Explain how firms make their supply decisions and why they sometimes shut down temporarily and lay off workers ! Explain how price and output in an industry are determined and why firms enter and leave the industry ! Predict the effects of a change in demand and of a technological advance ! Explain why perfect competition is efficient The Busy Bee The busy
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points Question 3 Because a monopolist does not face competition from other firms‚ the outcome in a market with a monopoly Answer a. is often not in the best interest of society. b. is characterized by unlimited profits. c. does not illustrate profit maximization. d. would be improved if the government produced the product rather than a private firm. .2 points Question 4 Microsoft faces very little competition from other firms for its Windows software. Why isn’t the
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between monopoly and perfect competition? Firm under perfect competition and the firm under monopoly are similar as the aim of both the seller is to maximize profit and to minimize loss. The equilibrium position followed by both the monopoly and perfect competition is MR = MC. Despite their similarities‚ these two forms of market organization differ from each other in respect of price-cost-output. There are many points of difference which are noted below. (1)Perfect competition is the market in
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discuss the difference between perfect and imperfect competition‚ and explain how imperfect competition may have affected the growth and development of the telecommunications sector in Malaysia. 3.1 The difference between perfect and imperfect competition It is traditional to divide industries into categories according to the degree of competition that exists between the firms within the industry. There are four such categories. At one extreme is perfect competition‚ where there are very many firms
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Assumptions of Perfect Competition The model of perfect competition is built on four assumptions: • Firms are price takers. There are so many firms in the industry that each one produces an insignificantly small portion of total industry supply‚ and therefore has no power whatsoever to affect the price of the product. It faces a horizontal demand ‘curve’ at the market price: the price determined by the interaction of demand and supply in the whole market. • There is complete freedom of entry
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