A. Steeper than the horizontal sum of individual MRPL

B. Flatter than the horizontal sum of individual MVPL

C. The vertical sum of individual MRPL

D. More than one applies

E. None applies

31. Consider a firm whose only input is labor. The following table summarizes all the information available to this firm:

Given the above data, we can tell that this firm will hire:

A. 5 workers

B. 10 workers

C. 15 workers

D. 20 workers

E. This firm will cease production.

Answer: B. The fastest way would probably be to calculate profit for each possible L directly.

32. Which circumstances would decrease an industry’s demand for labor?

A. The price of a complementary resource rises.

B. The government subsidizes the consumers of the output produced.

C. The price of a substitute resource rises, and the output effect outweighs the substitution effect.

D. The government bans all imports of substitutes to the output produced.

E. Labor productivity decreases.

33. A firm finds that at its current level of output, q, MP_L/P_L < MP_K/P_K. To minimize its costs of producing q, it will want to hire more ________ and less ________, which will increase _______ and decrease _________.

A. labor; capital; output; total costs;

B. capital; labor; profit; total costs;

C. labor; capital; MPL; MPK;

D. capital; labor; MPK; MPL;

E. capital; labor; PL; PK;

34. The graph below depicts a market for a particular good such that the production of the good imposes an externality.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. There is an external benefit in this industry.

B. There is an external cost in this industry.

C. The market allocation is socially efficient.

D. If we let the market determine how much of the good to produce, too little will be produced, relative to the output that is socially efficient.

E. B and C.

35. The free rider problem refers to:

A. situation when city government offers free bus riding during holidays.

B. situation in the Asia Minor when land was largely unfenced and riders have free acces to private range land.

C. situation in which consumers have no incentive to pay for a nonexcludable good.

D. variation on the phrase, “There is no such thing as free lunch,” which is replaced by, “There’s no such thing as a free ride.”

E. all of the above.

36. Suppose that good X is a (pure) public good. Then:

A. If we let the market decide how much X is produced, then in general we will have an efficient

amount of X produced.

B. If one individual consumes X, then this will decrease how much of X another individual can

consume.

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 768