If a perfectly competitive industry is taken over by a single firm that operates as a single-price monopoly, the price will ________ and the quantity will ________

A) fall; decrease
B) fall; increase
C) rise; decrease
D) rise; increase
E) not change; decrease

C

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A) financial intermediation. B) the transactions approach. C) moral hazard. D) capital controls.

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If the cross-price elasticity of demand is -3, then

a. the goods are substitutes b. one good is price inelastic c. one good is an inferior good d. one good is a luxury good e. the goods are complements

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