A. marginal rate of factor substitution
B. marginal rate of substitution
C. law of diminishing marginal returns.
D. marginal rate of production
Related Mcqs:
- In a competitive labour market firms will hire labour up to the point where the marginal revenue product of labour equals ?
A. total labour cost
B. the marginal product
C. the price of the product
D. the wage rate - The substitution effect of a rise in the price of labour will ____ the quantity of labour and the output, effect will ____ it
A. increase; increase
B. increase; reduce
C. reduce; reduce
D. reduce; increase - 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 - If output price is constant, the marginal revenue product of labour curve will have the same shape as the ?
A. total variable cost curve
B. marginal cost curve
C. total product of labour curve
D. marginal product of labour curve - 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 - Engineers for the All-Terrain Bike Company have determined that a 15% increase in all inputs will cause a 15% increase in output Assuming that input prices remain constant, you correctly deduce that such a change will cause ________ as output increases?
A. average costs to remain constant
B. average costs to decrease
C. average costs to increase
D. marginal costs to increase - 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 a perfectly competitive labour market firms are wage takers and the marginal cost of labour equals?
A. The average cost of labour
B. The marginal product
C. The marginal revenue
D. The total cost of labour - The formula for the marginal revenue product of labour (L is for labour, X is the product) is ?
A. MPL + PX
B. (MPL) (PX)
C. PX/MPL
D. MPL/PX - When capital is owned by the firm as opposed to being directly owned by household capital income may take any of the following forms except ?
A. interest
B. dividends
C. increases in stocks of goods
D. retained earnings
