A. Price is greater than marginal cost
B. price equals marginal cost
C. price is less than marginal cost
D. None of the above
Related Mcqs:
- If a competitive firm is producing a level of output where marginal revenue exceeds marginal cost the firm could increase profit if it ?
A. decreased production
B. maintained production at the current level
C. temporarily shut down.
D. increased production - The competitive firm maximize profit when it produces output up to the point where ?
A. price equals average variable cost
B. marginal revenue equals average revenue
C. marginal cost equals total revenue
D. marginal cost equals marginal revenue - If a competitive firm doubles its output its total revenue ?
A. doubles.
B. more than double
C. less than doubles.
D. cannot be determined because the price of the good may rise or fall - A monopolistically competitive firm that is incurring a loss will produce as long as the price that the firm charges is sufficient to cover ?
A. marginal costs
B. fixed costs
C. variable costs
D. advertising costs - 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 - For a competitive profit-maximizing firm, the value-of-the-marginal-product curve for capital is the firm’s ?
A. supply curve of capital
B. demand curve for capital
C. production function
D. marginal cost curve - There is an arrangement which allows a firm to use research from another firm at no cost in exchange for executing all of its trades with the firm that provides the research. What this arrangement is called?
A. Mutual arrangement
B. Quid Pro quo
C. Bilateral arrangement
D. common interest - When an oligopolist individually chooses its level of production to maximize its profits, it produces an output that is ?
A. more than the level produced by a monopoly and less than the level produced by a competitive market
B. less than the level produced by a monopoly and more than the level produced by a competitive market
C. less than the level produce by either monopoly or a competitive market
D. more than the level produced by either monopoly or a competitive market - Assume That the firms operate as purely competitive sellers (a purely competitive industry) In the long run, equilibrium price equals _________ quantity equals _________ and profits total _________?
A. $100, 2 million barrels per day $60 million
B. $80, 4 million barrels per day $70 million
C. $60, 6 million barrels per day, $20 million
D. $40, 8 million barrels per day, $0 million - Which of the following is true regarding the production and pricing decisions of monopolistically competitive firms? Monopolistically competitive firms choose the quantity at which marginal cost equals ?
A. marginal revenue and then use the demand curve to determine the price consistent with this quantity
B. average total cost and then use the supply curve to determine the price consistent with this quantity
C. marginal revenue and then use the supply curve to determine the price consistent with this quantity
D. average total cost and then use the demand curve to determine the price consistent with this quantity
