MCQ Questions
Q.1.
The goal of product differentiation and advertising in monopolistic competition is to make:
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    price less of a factor and product differences more of a factor in consumer purchases.
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    there is some control over price in monopolistic competition.
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    considers the reactions of its rivals when it determines its price policy.
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    each firm can increase its output and thus its profits by cutting price.
Q.2.
Which industry would be considered to be monopolistically competitive?
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    Standard weekday and weekend hours
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    marginal revenue curve.
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    Retail trade
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    Local dry cleaners
Q.3.
In the long run, a representative firm in a monopolistically competitive industry will typically:
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    may be able to earn positive economic profits.
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    earn a normal profit, but not an economic profit.
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    how the going price gets determined in the first place
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    marginal revenue curve.
Q.4.
The monopolistically competitive seller's demand curve will become more elastic the
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    larger the number of competitors.
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    how the going price gets determined in the first place
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    Standard weekday and weekend hours
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    make no change in the level of output
Q.5.
Which product is made by an industry that best illustrates the concept of homogeneous oligopoly?
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    Copper
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    Retail trade
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    Profits
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    Local dry cleaners
Q.6.
Which is not a form of product differentiation for the monopolistically competitive firm?
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    A perfectly elastic firm demand curve
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    Local dry cleaners
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    larger the number of competitors.
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    Standard weekday and weekend hours
Q.7.
Allocative and productive efficiency are achieved under the market structure of:
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    Local dry cleaners
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    pure competition.
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    marginal revenue curve.
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    Retail trade
Q.8.
Collusive control over price may permit oligopolists to:
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    be self-canceling and contribute to economic inefficiency.
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    reduce uncertainty, increase profits, and possibly limit entry of new firms.
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    each firm can increase its output and thus its profits by cutting price.
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    Firms may experience positive economic profits in the long run since barriers to entry are significant.
Q.9.
If an oligopolist's demand curve has a "kink" in it, then
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    reduce uncertainty, increase profits, and possibly limit entry of new firms.
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    over some interval, a change in the oligopolist's marginal cost will not cause a change in the oligopolist's profit-maximizing price.
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    Firms may experience positive economic profits in the long run since barriers to entry are significant.
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    each firm can increase its output and thus its profits by cutting price.
Q.10.
The principle underlying the kinked-demand curve model of oligopoly is that the demand curve facing one firm is more elastic when other firms in the industry
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    each firm can increase its output and thus its profits by cutting price.
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    be self-canceling and contribute to economic inefficiency.
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    hold price constant when the firm changes its prices.
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    how the going price gets determined in the first place
Q.11.
Which cannot be a characteristic of an oligopolistic industry?
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    A perfectly elastic firm demand curve
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    larger the number of competitors.
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    be self-canceling and contribute to economic inefficiency.
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    Standard weekday and weekend hours
Q.12.
In the long run an oligopoly:
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    earn a normal profit, but not an economic profit.
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    A perfectly elastic firm demand curve
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    marginal revenue curve.
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    may be able to earn positive economic profits.
Q.13.
A potential negative effect of advertising for society is that it can:
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    there is some control over price in monopolistic competition.
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    A perfectly elastic firm demand curve
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    be self-canceling and contribute to economic inefficiency.
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    each firm can increase its output and thus its profits by cutting price.
Q.14.
One shortcoming of the kinked-demand curve model of oligopoly is it does not explain
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    there is some control over price in monopolistic competition.
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    how the going price gets determined in the first place
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    larger the number of competitors.
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    earn a normal profit, but not an economic profit.
Q.15.
In the kinked-demand model, there will be a vertical break in the firm's:
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    marginal revenue curve.
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    Local dry cleaners
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    larger the number of competitors.
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    Retail trade
Q.16.
Mutual interdependence means that each firm in an oligopolistic industry:
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    there is some control over price in monopolistic competition.
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    considers the reactions of its rivals when it determines its price policy.
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    price less of a factor and product differences more of a factor in consumer purchases.
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    each firm can increase its output and thus its profits by cutting price.