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1 .       Under which market structure is a firm not highly concerned with customers or competition, but is very concerned with cost? [Hint]

 
 
 
 


2 .       Under which market structure is a firm highly concerned with cost and customers, but not so concerned with competition? [Hint]

 
 
 
 


3 .       Which market structure would be concerned with cost and customers, but probably most concerned with competition? [Hint]

 
 
 
 


4 .       Which market structure would be concerned with cost and competition, but probably most concerned with customers? [Hint]

 
 
 
 


5 .       The low price, eat-in restaurant industry for a small geographic market is mostly likely [Hint]

 
 
 
 


6 .       The fast-food industry [Hint]

 
 
 
 


7 .       The difference between new automobile manufacturing and new automobile sales [Hint]

 
 
 
 


8 .       Agricultural products, local utilities, the soft drink industry, and personal computer assembly and sales firms are generally considered [Hint]

 
 
 
 


9 .       For a firm in a monopolistically competitive market: P = 15 @ MR = MC for Q* = 500; AVC = 10 @ Q*; TFC = 2000. [Hint]

 
 
 
 


10 .       Using the information presented in question 9 [Hint]

 
 
 
 


11 .       Given the information presented in question 9; suppose that TFC = 3000 rather than the 2000 originally proposed. Which of the following statements is / are not true? [Hint]

 
 
 
 


12 .       Given the information presented in question 9; suppose that TFC = 2500 rather than the 2000 originally proposed. Which of the following statements is / are true? [Hint]

 
 
 
 


13 .       Which of the following best describes the process by which a monopolistically competitive market attains long-run equilibrium? [Hint]

 
 
 
 


14 .       Which of the following U.S. industries is not generally regarded as ologopolistic? [Hint]

 
 
 
 


15 .       According to the Census of Manufactures 8-firm concentration ratio, the most highly concentrated U.S. industry is [Hint]

 
 
 
 


16 .       According to the Census of Manufactures Herfindahl-Hirschman (HH) index, the most highly concentrated U.S. industry is [Hint]

 
 
 
 


17 .       Which is the defining characteristic of oligopoly? [Hint]

 
 
 
 


18 .       The kinked demand curve model [Hint]

 
 
 
 


19 .       Under the price leadership model [Hint]

 
 
 
 


20 .       The moral(s) of the prisoner's dilemma is / are [Hint]

 
 
 
 






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