1. If the firm is a price taker in the input market, the resource cost of...
1. If the firm is a price taker in the input market, the resource cost of an input is which of the following?
A. It is equal to the marginal cost.
B. It equals the market price for the resource.
C. It is not equal to the market price.
D. It is not equal to the marginal physical product
2. Profit maximizing firms must do which of the following?
A. Use more than enough resources to equalize marginal revenue product and marginal resource cost
B. Use just enough resource to equalize marginal revenue product and marginal resource cost
C. Use enough resources to produce a quantity of output to equalize marginal revenue product and marginal revenue
D. Make sure that marginal cost is equal to marginal resource cost
3. When marginal resource cost equals marginal revenue product, which of the following is true?
A. It is impossible to increase resource use to increase profits.
B. It is possible to increase resource use to increase profits.
C. It is possible to change in the amount of the input to increase profits.
D. It is possible to move the marginal cost curve to the left.
4. The price elasticity of labor demand is the ratio of which of the following?
A. The percentage change in quantity demanded of labor to a given percentage change in the product price
B. The percentage change in quantity demanded of labor to a given change in the wage rate
C. A change in demand for labor to a change in wage rate
D. A change in demand for labor to a given change in product price
Homework Answers
1. B) It equals the market price for the resource.
Explanation: As the firm is a price taker, the resource cost is its market price.
2. B) Use just enough resource to equalize marginal revenue product and marginal resource cost.
Explanation: We get this from the first order condition (FOC) of profit maximization.
3. A) It is impossible to increase resource use to increase profits.
Explanation: We get this from the FOC of profit maximization.
4. C) A change in demand for labor to a change in wage rate.
Explanation: We get this from the definition of price elasticity of labor.
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