Interest is considered a(n)
A) explicit cost when the firm pays a bank to borrow money.
B) implicit cost when the firm owner uses his or her own funds to buy capital.
C) return to entrepreneurship if the firm owner uses her own funds to buy capital.
D) form of depreciation if the cost of borrowing increases.
E) Both answers A and B are true.
E
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In the short run, why does a production function eventually display diminishing returns to labor?
A) As a firm hires more workers the skills and the work ethic of the additional workers will eventually decline. B) The opportunity cost of hiring additional workers must eventually rise. C) As the number of workers increases eventually the gains from the division of labor and specialization are used up. D) As the number of workers increases it becomes difficult to monitor them.
The situation pictured in Figure 6.3
A) is one of increasing marginal returns to labor. B) is one of increasing marginal returns to capital. C) is not consistent with diminishing marginal product of labor or capital. D) shows constant returns to scale. E) shows diminishing marginal products of labor and capital.