If the price of crude oil falls, the equilibrium price of gasoline ________ and the equilibrium quantity ________
A) rises; increases
B) rises; decreases
C) falls; increases
D) falls; decreases
C
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Which incentive scheme would simultaneously elicit accurate information about feasible plant production levels and motivate managers to perform up to potential (in the following schemes, B is the bonus payment, Q is actual plant output, and Qf is the
manager's estimate of feasible output)? A) B = 0.4Q B) B = 0.4(Q - Qf) C) B = 0.4Qf + 0.3(Q - Qf) if Q > Qf D) B = 0.4Qf - 0.6(Q - Qf) if Q < Qf E) B = 0.4Qf - 0.6(Q - Qf) if Q > Qf
Refer to the above figure for a particular good. The rightward shift of the curve could have been caused by
A) a decrease in the price of an input. B) a decrease in the price of that good. C) an increase in the price of a complementary good. D) an increase in the price of a substitute good.