Suppose the economy is in long-run equilibrium. Senator A succeeds in getting taxes raised. At the same time, Senator B succeeds in getting major restrictions on logging removed. In the short run
a. real GDP will rise and the price level might rise, fall, or stay the same.
b. real GDP will fall and the price level might rise, fall, or stay the same.
c. the price level will rise, and real GDP might rise, fall, or stay the same.
d. the price level will fall, and real GDP might rise, fall, or stay the same.
d
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The profit-maximizing rule for a monopolistically competitive firm is to select the quantity at which
A) average revenue equals average total cost. B) price equals marginal cost. C) average revenue exceeds marginal cost by the greatest amount. D) marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
Merger guidelines developed by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission use the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index as a measure of concentration. This index measures concentration in an industry by
A) adding up the market shares of all firms in the industry, squaring this number and then dividing by the number of firms in the industry. B) squaring the market shares of each firm in an industry and then adding up the values of the squares. C) determining the market shares of the four largest firms in the industry, but unlike the concentration ratio, the Index includes sales in the United States by foreign firms. D) squaring the four-firm concentration ratio of the industry and dividing this number by the total number of firms in the industry.