The demand curve facing a firm will be more elastic,
a. the fewer the number of competing firms
b. the more differentiated the product
c. the more substitutes there are for its product
d. the greater the firm's ability to control price
e. the larger the profit the firm can make
C
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A) The firms' costs rise, resulting in positive economic profit in the short run and, hence, the industry supply curve shifts rightward in the long run. B) The firms' costs rise, resulting in economic losses in the short run and, hence, the industry supply curve shifts rightward in the long run. C) The firms' costs rise, resulting in economic losses in the short run and, hence, the industry supply curve shifts leftward in the long run. D) The industry supply curve shifts leftward in the short run, causing permanent long-run economic losses.
In the trade-based theory of exchange rate determination, the quantity supplied of a currency in the foreign exchange market results from
A) its exports of goods and services. B) the nation's demand for imports C) the level of domestic absorption. D) the import demand curve.