Price discrimination is most accurately defined by which of the following Price discrimination is the practice of charging different consumers different prices for:
A. similar products that have identical per-unit production costs.
B. products that have identical price elasticities of demand.
C. the same product or service.
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Keith Keeley, an associate at Friedman, Harris, and Levinsky LLC, was requested by a Managing Director of the firm to help construct the consumer price index (CPI). Keeley sought to determine which goods and services to include in the index by observing what a typical U. S. household purchases. He then took a large survey of individuals to determine what percentage of their disposable income they spend on each of the items and used these percentages as the weights for the major categories in the CPI. The steps that Keeley undertook are all part of which stage in constructing the CPI index
A. Select the CPI basket.
B. Calculate the CPI.
Conduct the monthly price survey.
Which of the following statements regarding a monopolist is most accurate
A monopolist will maximize the average profit per unit sold.
B. If a firm has a monopoly, it will always be able to earn economic profits.
C. A monopolist, like any other profit-maximizing firm, will sell at the output level where marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
When a firm is earning positive economic profits in a monopolistic competitive market, what will most likely occur
A. New firms will enter driving down the economic profits to zero.
B. Losses will occur in the short run.
C. Price takers will be over run by price searchers.
Which of the following statements regarding monopolies is FALSE
A. Monopolists will try to get favorable treatment from the government called rent seeking.
B. Due to the law of diminishing returns, natural monopolies exhibit an upward sloping average total cost curve.
C. Inefficient producers are able to survive.