Price discrimination occurs when:
a. firms maximize their profit by setting price equal to marginal cost.
b. a seller charges different prices to different consumers of the same product or service.
c. a seller charges the same price to consumers of a different product or service.
d. a seller charges different prices to consumers, discriminating by race or gender of the consumer.
b
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What problem is caused by subsidizing a natural monopoly regulated using a marginal cost pricing rule?
A) The regulated firm ends up earning an economic profit. B) Consumers pay too much for the product of the monopoly. C) This policy is a two-part tariff, which creates inefficiency. D) The taxes required to gain the revenue used as the subsidy result in a deadweight loss that subtracts from gains in efficiency which result from use of the marginal cost pricing rule. E) The regulated firm goes out of business if it is subsidized.
One reason stagflation is difficult to recover from is because:
A. less output requires less inputs to be hired. B. prices tend to adjust more quickly downward than upward. C. wages are sticky downward. D. input prices increase with output prices.