Indicate whether each of the following statements is true, false, or uncertain and explain your answer. Be sure to clearly define any concepts included in your answer and label all graphs.
Indicate whether each of the following statements is true, false, or uncertain and explain your answer....
For each of the following statements, indicate whether it is true, false, or uncertain and EXPLAIN WHY. a. In the long-run the typical monopolistically competitive firm earns no economic profit and that indicates that the firm is economically (productively) efficient b. Monopolists have complete pricing freedom as they seek to maximize profits. c. In the short-run, if price drops below the average total cost, the perfectly competitive firm must shut down immediately.
True, False, Uncertain State whether each of the following statements is true, false or uncertain. Explain and support your answer. There is not necessarily one right answer to these questions. All the credit is in the explanation (but you must state T, F, or U). The full cost of medical school includes mainly tuition, room, and board for the school. Uncompensated care in the U.S. is entirely subsidized by government programs, namely Medicare and Medicaid. In a DRG payment system, hospitals receive payment...
Please indicate whether the following statements are True, False or Uncertain. Support your answer with an explanation (one to two sentences) or a diagram. If the benefits of a project exceed its cost, then realizing this project will be a Pareto improvement?
(a) State and explain if the following statements are True, False or Uncertain. You have to explain your option even if the answer is True. If marginal cost in two markets is identical for a firm, then an international monopolistically competitive firm would set the same price in both markets. The Heckscher-Ohlin model can explain why the relative demand for skilled workers has increased within all sectors in developed countries in recent decades. In the specific factor model with labor...
Short Questions Please indicate whether the following statements are True, False or Uncertain. Support your answer with an explanation (one to two sentences) or a diagram (75% of credit is based on your explanation!) 1. The government should only intervene in the economy when there are market failures. [2 marks 2. A utilitarian social welfare function implies that income redistribution from rich to poor will reduce social welfare. [2 marks] 3. A policy intervation will increase social welfare if and...
True/False/Uncertain. For each question, answer “True” or “False” or “Uncertain” and explain your answer. (1) In any game between two firms that is repeated only once, the outcome will be perfect competition (P=MC). (2) Suppose that regulators decide to increase the gasoline tax by 25 cents per gallon to combat global warming. Then consumers will pay substantially more for every gallon of gas they purchase.
Indicate whether the following statements are true/false/uncertain. Why or why not? Explain your answer clearly and concisely. [5 points] The social gradient in health is explained primarily by common, behaviour-based risk factors for disease. [5 points] The concept of need in healthcare derives from the presence of externalities in healthcare markets.
Section 2: Please answer the following question as True/False/Uncertain and fully explain the rationale for your answer. 1. Producers maximize profits by maximizing revenue and minimizing costs of production. Specifically, they determine the least cost combination of inputs based on their production function and second, they set output where revenue is maximized. (20 Points) 2. Because firms can freely choose the level of the capital and labor in the long run, long run marginal and average costs will always be...
Answer four of the following. In each case answer True, False or Uncertain and explain your answer. Limit each answer to one page. 1. (a) A firm has a technology that relies on only one input (call it x). The output of the firm (call it y) increases as you increase x but at a diminishing rate. Based only on the information provided, y-ln(x) would be a valid representation of this firms production function. A new virus has just been...
Indicate whether you think the following statements are true, false or uncertain. Support your answer by giving all necessary reasoning and calculations: b) According to the quantity theory of money, “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.”