An individual firm’s demand for a factor of production ?

A. Slopes downward because an increase in the production of output reduces the price at which the output can be sold in a competitive market, thereby reducing the value of the marginal producing the value of the marginal product as more of the factor is use
B. Slopes downward due to the factor’s diminishing marginal product
C. slopes upward due to the factor’s increasing marginal product
D. is perfectly elastic (horizontal) if the factor market is perfectly competitive

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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
A firm owns long-lived property that is used by a firm in the Production of its income. What this property is called ?
A. Unmovable asset
B. Fixed property
C. Production line
D. Fixed asset
Which factor of production in the United States is most likely to be made worse off (its factor payment will decrease) because of the North American Free Trade Agreement ?
A. Capital
B. land
C. skilled labor
D. unskilled labor
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
An increase in the demand for a firm’s output ?
A. decrease the prosperity of the firm but increases the prosperity of the factors hired by the firm
B. decreases the prosperity of both the firms and the factors hired by the firm.
C. increases the prosperity of both the firm and the factors hired by the firm.
D. increases the prosperity of the firm but decreases the prosperity of the factors hired by the firm.
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
If a firm were to bid to do a turnkey operation where they would choose a building site designing a cement factory to build the plant hire construction crews assemble materials and equipment to run the new factory and turn over the finished factory ready to operate to the owners the firm would be using which of the following ?
A. Core Process products selling
B. Design Products selling
C. Reciprocal spelling
D. Systems selling
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
A competitive firm demand curve is ?
A. Horizontal
B. vertical
C. downward sloping
D. elastic