In the absence of any government regulation on price, if a firm has no power to set price on its own, one can safely conclude
A) the demand curve for the firm's product is horizontal.
B) there aren't many firms in the industry.
C) the market is in long-run equilibrium.
D) the firms in this industry are not profitable.
A
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Which of the following statements is true?
A) Hours of labor that go into producing a product is a better unit of account than paper money. B) When money is used as a yardstick to describe the price of various goods and services, it is serving as a store of value. C) The necessary condition required for money to function as a medium of exchange is that it also needs to be a store of value. D) One of the limitations of using money is that it does not allow for the transfer of purchasing power into the future.
Under the adaptive expectations theory, expansionary monetary and fiscal policies designed to reduce the unemployment rate will be
a. ineffective in the long run. b. ineffective in the short run. c. noninflationary. d. all of the above.