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Chapter 12 Multiple Choice Questions
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Chapter 12 Multiple Choice Questions
Perfect competition
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Firms in perfect competition face a:
Perfectly elastic demand curve
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Perfectly inelastic demand curve
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Perfectly elastic supply curve
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Perfectly inelastic supply curve
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In perfect competition:
The price charged by a firm equals the marginal revenue
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The price charged by a firm equals the average variable cost
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The fixed cost equals the variable costs
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The price charged by a firm equals the total costs
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A profit maximizing firm in perfect competition produces where:
Total revenue is maximized
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Marginal revenue equals zero
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Marginal revenue equals marginal cost
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Marginal revenue equals average cost
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In perfect competition:
The products firms offer are very similar
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Products are heavily differentiated
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A few firms dominate the market
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Consumers have limited information
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In the long run in perfect competition:
The price equals the total revenue
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Firms are allocatively inefficient
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Firms are productively efficient
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The price equals total cost
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In perfect competition:
Short run abnormal profits are competed away by firms leaving the industry
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Short run abnormal profits are competed away by firms entering the industry
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Short run abnormal profits are competed away by the government
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Short run abnormal profits are competed away by greater advertising
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In perfect competition:
A few firms dominate the industry
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Firms are price makers
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There are many buyers but few sellers
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There are many buyers and many sellers
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In the short run firms in perfect competition will still produce provided:
The price covers average variable cost
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The price covers variable costs
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The price covers average fixed cost
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The price covers fixed costs
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In the long run equilibrium in perfect competition:
Price = average cost = marginal cost
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Price = average cost = total cost
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Price = marginal revenue = total cost
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Total revenue = total variable cost
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For a perfectly competitive firm:
Total revenue is a straight line
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Price is greater than marginal revenue
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Price equals total revenue
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Price equals total cost
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