Consider Sam and Linda both drive a relatively inefficient sport utility vehicle (SUV). Sam has a lease that doesn't expire for three years whereas Linda owns her sport utility vehicle free and clear
If the price of gasoline was to increase by fifty percent, which of these statements is most likely true? A) Linda will have a less elastic response than Sam.
B) Sam will have a less elastic response than Linda.
C) Sam and Linda will have identically elastic responses.
D) Sam will have a more elastic response than Linda.
B
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A) producers are setting MRT equal to minus the price ratio while consumers are setting MRS equal to minus the price ratio ensuring that MRT will equal MRS. B) consumers are on the contract curve. C) the slope of the production possibility frontier will equal the slope of the contract curve. D) the distribution of the final output is Pareto efficient.
Effective collusion generally is more difficult as the number of oligopolistic firms involved increases
a. true b. false