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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - For a competitive firm, its short run supply curve is ______ and its long run supply curve is _____?
A. SMC, LMC
B. SMC above SAVC, LMC above LAC
C. SMC below SAVC, LMC above LAC
D. SMC below SAVC, LMC bellow LAC - 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 - 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 - 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 - If as the quantity produced increase a production function first exhibits increasing marginal product and later diminishing marginal product, the corresponding marginal-cost curve will ?
A. be flat (horizontal)
B. slope upward
C. slope downward
D. be U-shaped. - 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 - In the long run, the competitive firm’s supply curve is the ?
A. entire marginal cost curve
B. upward-sloping portion of the average total cost curve
C. portion of the marginal cost curve that lies above the average total cost curve
D. upward-sloping portion of the average variable cost curve
E. portion of the marginal cost curve that lies above the average variable cost curve. - Which of the following statements is true regarding the long-run aggregate supply curve? The long-run aggregate supply cruve ?
A. Is vertical because an equal change in all prices and wages leaves output unaffected
B. is positively sloped because price expectations and wages tend to be fixed is the long run
C. shifts right when the government raises the minimum wage
D. shifts left when the natural rate of unemployment falls - Suppose that the supply curve of tin is highly inelastic. If the demand curve of tin decrease and increase cyclically along the supply curve of tin, then in this market the size of the quantity fluctuation will bathe size of the price fluctuations ?
A. relatively greater than
B. relatively less than
C. the same as
D. Any of the above
