For a profit-maximizing monopolist, the price of a product is:
a. always equal to marginal revenue.
b. always greater than marginal revenue.
c. always less than marginal revenue.
d. always equal to the average total cost of production.
QUESTION 2Which of the following statements about international trade restrictions is true?
a. They ensure that only efficient producers survive.
b. They ensure that countries specialize only in those products that they can produce most efficiently.
c. They harm domestic consumers in the majority of cases.
d. They typically benefit foreign producers at the expense of domestic consumers.
e. They ensure that higher-quality goods are provided at lower prices.
QUESTION 3Identify the difference between the short-run and the long-run.
QUESTION 4A perfectly competitive firm produces 50 units of output, at equilibrium, in the short run. The total cost borne by the firm is 300 and the average revenue is 2 . Therefore, the firm:
a. is just breaking even.
b. is earning positive profits.
c. is facing a positively sloped demand curve.
d. is suffering losses.
e. is experiencing diseconomies of scale.
QUESTION 5Profit-maximizing monopolists choose a level of output such that:
a. average total cost is minimized.
b. price equals marginal revenue but exceeds average variable cost.
c. price equals marginal cost but exceeds average variable cost.
d. marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
QUESTION 6Define opportunity cost.
QUESTION 7When restrictions alter the pattern of international trade, the _____ benefit and the _____ suffer(s).
a. domestic consumers; domestic producers
b. domestic consumers; government
c. domestic producers; domestic consumers
d. foreign producers; domestic producers
e. foreign producers; domestic consumers