ECON 2030 Final: ECON Notes Today

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Markets are not always able to return to equilibrium level. There are serious of social, governmental, or some other sort of interference thrown into the mix that may have an effect: price. Price ceiling is a maximum allowable price for a good or service. Price floor is minimum allowable price for a good or service. Quantity restriction is a limit on the number of transactions that can take place of a good or service. Non-binding if the imposed price ceiling is above or equal. Binding if price ceiling is below equilibrium price. Selling a smaller number of a good or selling at a lower. For buyers as a group, some are better off some are better: price floor price is bad for businesses. off. Quantity equal to equilibrium price, it is non-binding. As price increases, number of buyers willing to buy will go down. Hurricane isaac declared state of emergency: anti-price gouging law.

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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?

	a.	The binding price ceiling will cause firms to minimize their spending on the research and development of alternatives to gasoline.
	b.	The binding price ceiling will discourage individuals from using their personal automobile to commute to work or school.
	c.	The binding price ceiling will increase the likelihood that customers obtain needed gasoline on the black market.
	d.	The binding price ceiling will encourage oil companies to deplete the resource too quickly.
	e.	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:

	a.	increasing returns from specialization.
	b.	diseconomies of scale.
	c.	economies of scale.
	d.	constant returns to scale.
	e.	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.

	a.	increase; increase
	b.	increase; have no effect on
	c.	decrease; have no effect on
	d.	decrease; decrease
	e.	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:

	a.	external costs.
	b.	social costs.
	c.	common costs.
	d.	free-rider costs.
	e.	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?

	a.	Equilibrium price will go down and equilibrium quantity will be indeterminate.
	b.	Equilibrium price will go up and equilibrium quantity will go down.
	c.	Equilibrium price will go up and equilibrium quantity will be indeterminate.
	d.	Equilibrium price will go down and equilibrium quantity will go up.
	e.	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:

	a.	price floor.
	b.	law that sets the minimum number of hours that an employee must work for wages during the week.
	c.	law that allows individual employers and employees to make free decisions.
	d.	law that requires quantity demanded to equal quantity supplied.
	e.	price ceiling.

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