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QUESTION 38
You are the president of the United States. In an attempt to make gasoline prices cheaper, you have imposed a binding price ceiling on gas. What would you expect your critics to say?
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The binding price ceiling will cause firms to minimize their spending on the research and development of alternatives to gasoline. |
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The binding price ceiling will discourage individuals from using their personal automobile to commute to work or school. |
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The binding price ceiling will increase the likelihood that customers obtain needed |
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The binding price ceiling will encourage oil companies to deplete the resource too quickly. |
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The binding price ceiling will cause firms to produce only gasoline of the highest quality. |
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QUESTION 39
If a firm's long-run average total costs increase as it increases its scale of production, the firm is experiencing:
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increasing returns from specialization. |
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diseconomies of scale. |
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economies of scale. |
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constant returns to scale. |
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diminishing marginal product. |
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QUESTION 40
A(n) __________ in the elasticity of supply or demand in a market for a good that is taxed would tend to __________ tax revenue from that tax.
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increase; increase |
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increase; have no effect on |
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decrease; have no effect on |
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decrease; decrease |
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increase; decrease |
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QUESTION 41
The costs of a market activity paid for by an individual engaged in the market activity are:
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external costs. |
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social costs. |
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common costs. |
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free-rider costs. |
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internal costs. |
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QUESTION 42
Assume that the price of rubber increased at the same time that Michael Jordan, arguably the best NBA basketball player of all time, became famous. What do you expect to happen to the equilibrium price and equilibrium quantity of the basketball shoes that are promoted by Michael Jordan?
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Equilibrium price will go down and equilibrium quantity will be indeterminate. |
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Equilibrium price will go up and equilibrium quantity will go down. |
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Equilibrium price will go up and equilibrium quantity will be indeterminate. |
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Equilibrium price will go down and equilibrium quantity will go up. |
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Equilibrium price will go up and equilibrium quantity will go up. |
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QUESTION 43
The minimum wage law is an example of a:
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price floor. |
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law that sets the minimum number of hours that an employee must work for wages during the week. |
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law that allows individual employers and employees to make free decisions. |
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law that requires quantity demanded to equal quantity supplied. |
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price ceiling. |
Price/Feeder |
Quantity Demanded |
Quantity Supplied |
$300 |
500 |
1800 |
270 |
600 |
1700 |
240 |
700 |
1600 |
210 |
800 |
1500 |
180 |
1000 |
1400 |
150 |
1100 |
1300 |
120 |
1200 |
1200 |
90 |
1300 |
1100 |
60 |
1400 |
1000 |
30 |
1500 |
900 |
10 |
1600 |
800 |
Your client has asked that you develop a report addressing the following questions so that you can present these findings to their Board of Directors:
Questions:
- Construct a graph showing supply and demand in the electronic dog feeder market, using Microsoft Excel.
- How are the laws of supply and demand illustrated in this graph? Explain your answers.
- What is are the equilibrium price and quantity in this market?
- Assume that the government imposes a price floor of $180 in the feeder market. What would happen in this market?
- Assume that the price floor is removed and a price ceiling is imposed at $90. What would happen in this market?
- Now, assume that the price of feeders drops by 50%. How would this change impact the demand for feeders? Explain your answer and reconstruct the graph developed in question one to show this change.
- Assume that incomes of the consumers in this market increases. What would happen in this market? Explain your answer and reconstruct the graph developed in question one to show this change.
- Assume that the number of sellers decreases in this market. What would happen in this market? Explain your answer and reconstruct the graph developed in question one to show this change.
- Explain the difference between a normal good and an inferior good. Would your answers to question 7 change depending on whether this good is normal or inferior? depending on whether this good is normal or inferiorly?