A. adds to the pre-existing productive capacity
B. enters markets neither parent could have entered individually
C. yields cost reductions unavailable to parent firms
D. gives rise to increased amounts of market power
Related Mcqs:
- The market power effect of an international joint venture can lead to welfare losses for the domestic economy unless offset by cost reductions. Which type of cost reduction would not lead to offsetting welfare gains for the overall economy ?
A. R&D generating welfare improved technology
B. development of more productive machinery
C. new work rules promoting workers efficiency
D. lower wages extracted from workers - International trade tends to cause welfare losses to at least some groups in a country ?
A. The less mobile the country’s resources
B. The more mobile the country’s resources
C. The lower the country’s initial living standard
The higher the country’s initial living standard - 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 - Suppose that Russia steel firms engage in dumping in the German market in terms of overall economic welfare, German welfare would _______ as the result of the dumping?
A. increase
B. decrease
C. not change
D. None of These - 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 - 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 - 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
