A. behave like competitive firms
B. agree to act together
C. differentiate their products
D. practice price discrimination
Related Mcqs:
- In contestable markets, large oligopolistic firms, end up behaving like ?
A. perfectly competitive firms
B. a cartel
C. a monopoly
D. monopolistically competitive firms. - In contestable markets large oligopolistic firms end up behaving like ?
A. monopolistically competitive firms
B. a cartel
C. perfectly competitive firms
D. a monopoly. - A market is defined as perfectly contestable if ?
A. entry to it is costly but exit from it is costless
B. entry to it and exit from it are both costless
C. entry to it and exit from it are both costly
D. entry to ti costless but exist from it is costly - A market is defined as perfectly contestable if ?
A. entry to it and exit from it are both costless
B. entry to it and exit from it are both costly
C. entry to it costless, but exit from it is costless
D. entry to it is costly, but exit from it is costless - If all firms in a market have identical cost structures and if inputs used in the production of the good in that market are readily available, then the long-run market supply curve for that good should be ?
A. downward sloping
B. perfectly inelastic
C. upward sloping
D. perfectly elastic - Which of the following is not a method firms use to avoid the moral hazard problem in the employment relationship ?
A. They pay employees with delayed compensation such as a year-end bonus
B. They buy life insurance on their workers
C. They pay above equilibrium wages
D. They put hidden video cameras in the workplace - If an input necessary for production is in limited supply so that an expansion of the industry raises costs for all existing firms in the market, then the long-run market supply curve for a good could be ?
A. perfectly inelastic
B. perfectly elastic
C. upward sloping
D. downward sloping - 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
