A key lesson from the payroll tax is that the
a. tax is a tax solely on workers.
b. tax is a tax solely on firms that hire workers.
c. tax eliminates any wedge that might exist between the wage that firms pay and the wage that workers receive.
d. true burden of a tax cannot be legislated.
d
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For the past three years, you have earned economic profits of $5,00 . per year by being the only vendor selling bottled tap water at your town's Fourth of July celebration. When you go to city hall to apply for a vending permit for this year's
celebration, the city clerk mentions that fifty new firms have received permits to sell tap water this year. a . What can you do to protect your economic profit in the short run? b. What can you do to protect your economic profit in the long run?
Suppose Grandis and Immanis are the only two companies that sell the product whose market demand curve is shown in the accompanying figure. For both companies, both average total cost and marginal cost are constant and equal to $2 (ATC = MC = $2).
Suppose Grandis and Immanis agree to collude by both charging the price a monopolist would charge and each producing half of the monopolist's profit-maximizing level of output. Grandis, however, decides to cheat on the collusive agreement. If Grandis charges $1 less than the monopoly price while Immanis continues to charge the monopoly price, then Grandis will earn a profit of ________ per day.
A. $20 B. $40 C. $160 D. $80