What are the characteristics of a perfectly competitive industry?
In a perfectly competitive industry there are many buyers and sellers and there are relatively low barriers to entry and exit from the industry. Firms are price takers since they are such a small portion of the total market and produce homogeneous products.
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Suppose a duopoly had reached the monopoly outcome and then the first firm increased its production. If the second firm next increases its production, the second firm's profit ________ and the first firm's profit ________
A) increases; increases B) increases; decreases C) decreases; increases D) decreases; decreases E) increases; does not change
Assume an economy experiences, for a given period, a 4% increase in output and a 4% increase in productivity. Given this information, we know that which of the following occurred for this economy during this period?
A) The unemployment rate increased during this period. B) The unemployment rate decreased during this period. C) The unemployment rate did not change during this period. D) The effects on the unemployment rate are ambiguous. E) none of the above