A. antimonopoly laws
B. all of these answers
C. anti-collusion laws
D. pro-competition laws
E. antitrust laws
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Which of the following is true with regard to monopolistically competitive firms scale of production and pricing decisions Monopolistically competitive firms produce ?
A. at the efficient scale and charge a price equal to marginal cost
B. at the efficient scale and charge a price above marginal cost
C. With excess capacity and charge a price above marginal cost
D. With excess capacity and charge a price equal to marginal cost - When you consume good Q, not only do you benefit form consuming the good but other people benefit from your consumption as well, if firms produce good Q where P = MC, firms will be producing ?
A. less than the efficient level of output
B. more than the efficient level of output
C. so that consumer surplus is zero
D. the efficient level of output - In monopolistic competition of firms are making abnormal profit other firms will enter and ?
A. The marginal cost will shift outwards
B. the demand curve will shift inwards
C. The average cost will shift downwards
D. The average variable cost will increase - A number of relating prices of a group of commodities to their prices during an arbitrarily chosen based period is called ?
A. Price index
B. Price indexing
C. Price fixing
D. Price choosing - When supply exceeds demand, sellers must lower prices to stimulate sales, when demand exceeds supply, prices increase as buyers compete to buy goods. What this theory is called in economics?
A. Cost push theory
B. Supply and Demand theory
C. Fundamental theory
D. Ricardo’s theory - In certain industries Japanese employers hesitate to lay off workers Therefore they sometimes have excess supplies of goods that they cannot sell on the home market without lowering prices. To hold down losses they sell goods in overseas markets at prices well beneath those in japan This practice is best referred to as ?
A. Orderly marketing
B. trigger pricing
C. domestic content pricing
D. dumping - Real GDP is measured in __________ prices while nominal GDP is measured in _________ prices?
A. foreign; domestic
B. current year; base year
C. domestic; foreign
D. base year; current year
E. intermediate; final - If input price prices adjusted very rapidly to output prices as classical economists argue the Philips curve would be ?
A. Vertical or nearly vertical
B. upward sloping
C. downward sloping
D. horizontal or nearly horizontal - If regulators break up a natural monopoly into many smaller firms, the cost of production ?
A. will rise
B. will fall
C. will remain the same
D. could either rise or fall depending on the elasticity of the monopolist’s supply curve
