If a firm is in an antitrust court case being accused of monopolizing a product, the firm would hire an economist to show
A) the cross-price elasticity of demand between the firm's good and another is positive.
B) the price elasticity of demand for the firm's good is highly inelastic.
C) the income elasticity of the firm's good is inferior.
D) the cross-price elasticity of demand between the firm's good and another is negative.
A
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a. both price and income elastic b. both price and income inelastic c. price inelastic and income elastic d. price elastic and income inelastic e. of unitary price elasticity and income elastic
The railroad expanded the size of our markets and therefore almost everything marketable, creating industries where none existed before. Joseph Schumpeter explained such an outcome as the result of
a. the upswing (or recovery) phase of a multi-investment cycle b. the upswing (or recovery) phase of an internal cycle c. the upswing (or recovery) phase of an innovation cycle d. an entrepreneurial revolution in U.S. industry e. the combination of immigration and capital deepening