Why do firms form a cartel? How do cartels achieve their goals?
What will be an ideal response?
Firms form a cartel in order to maximize their combined profits by acting as a single producer. To do so, they agree on setting common prices and output quotas for participating members.
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The cost, c, of a college education that serves only as a signal of a high-quality worker is $20,000. The wage of a known high-quality worker, wh, is $75,000. The wage for a known low-quality worker, wl, is $50,000
For what value of the share of the work force that is of high quality, t, is a pooling equilibrium possible?
________ efficiency occurs when the firm produces a rate of output at which marginal cost equals the marginal benefit that consumers derive from the good. ________ efficiency occurs when the firm produces at the minimum point on its long-run average-cost curve
a. Social; allocative b. Productive; accounting c. Allocative; productive d. Economic; allocative