A. a natural monopoly
B. an LDC’s limit of one firm to an industry
C. an individual firm facing a horizontal (perfectly elastic) demand curve in LDCs
D. The existence of oligopoly
Related Mcqs:
- Suppose Handel’s Ice Cream experiences economies of scale up to a certain point and diseconomies of scale beyond that point. Its long-run average cost curve is most likely to be ?
A. downward sloping to the right
B. U-shaped
C. Horizontal
D. upward sloping to the right - In the short run, the competitive firm’s supply curve is the portion of the marginal cost curve that lies above the average variable cost curve?
A. Upward-sloping portion of the average total cost curve
B. upward-sloping portion of the average variable cost curve
C. portion of the marginal cost curve that lies above the average total cost curve.
D. entire marginal cost curve.
E. portion of the marginal-cost curve that lies above the average variable cost curve - The short run marginal cost curve cuts the short run total cost curve and short run average variable cost curve ?
A. At their lowest points
B. When they are declining
C. When they are increasing
D. When marginal revenue is zero - When average cost is falling marginal cost is ________ and when average cost is rising marginal cost is?
A. greater than average cost, greater than average cost
B. less than average cost, greater than average cost
C. less than average cost, less than average cost
D. greater than average cost, less than average cost - An industry that realizes such large economies of scale in producing its product that single-firm production of that good or service is most efficient is called ?
A. a fixed cost monopoly
B. a natural monopoly
C. a government franchise monopoly
D. a economies of scale monopoly - A firm in perfectly competitive industry is producing 50 units, its profit-maximising quantity. Industry price is £2 and total fixed costs and total variable cost are £25 and £40 respectively. The firm’s economic profit is ?
A. £35
B. £15
C. £30
D. £60 - If a long run average cost curve is falling form left to right this is an example of ?
A. increasing returns to scale
B. decreasing returns to scale
C. constant returns to scale
D. the minimum efficient scale - When internal economies of scale occur ?
A. Total costs fall
B. Marginal costs increase
C. Average costs fall
D. Revenue falls - If a firm is not operating at the output necessary to achieve all scale economies, it has not achieved its ?
A. Efficient scale
B. Average efficient scale
C. Maximum efficient scale
D. Minimum efficient scale - In the short run, if the price is above average total cost in a monopolistically competitive market, the firm makes ?
A. losses and firms exit the market
B. profits and firms exit the market
C. losses and firms enter the market
D. profits and firms enter the market
