Why would a firm in a perfectly competitive market always choose to set its price equal to the current market price? If a firm set its price below the current market price, what effect would this have on the market?
The firm could not sell any more of its product at a lower price than it could sell at the market price. As a result, it would needlessly forgo revenue if it set a price below the market price. If the firm set a higher price, it would not sell anything at all because a competitive market has many sellers who would supply the product at the market price.
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b. sellers can increase their total revenue by raising prices. c. firms can enter and exit the industry with relative ease. d. firms compete by varying a product's quality rather than a product's price.
Between 1921 and 1929 national output rose about _____%.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).