The figure above represents the demand and cost functions facing a Brazilian Steel producing monopolist. The Brazilian firm is charging its foreign (U.S.) customers one half the price it is charging its domestic customers
Is this good or bad for the real income or economic welfare of the United States? Is the Brazilian firm engaged in dumping? Is this predatory behavior on the part of the Brazilian steel company?
It is good for U.S. customers.Yes, this is dumping if you define dumping as selling abroad at a price lower than domestically. No, it is not dumping if by dumping you mean selling below marginal cost. No, this is not predatory, since it is not being done in order to capture market share, but rather is "mere" static profit maximization behavior, as is expected of any self-respecting monopolist.
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In the Keynesian framework, as long as output is ________ the equilibrium level, unplanned inventory investment will remain ________, firms will continue to raise production, and output will continue to rise
A) below; negative B) above; negative C) below; positive D) above; positive
Efficiency is illustrated by
a. both the production possibilities frontier and the circular-flow diagram. b. neither the production possibilities frontier nor the circular-flow diagram. c. the production possibilities frontier only. d. the circular-flow diagram only.