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If two resources are complementary, an increase in the price of one will increase the demand for the other.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following decreases in labor demand is due to a change in product demand?


A) An increase in the price of paper increases the cost of making books, thus decreasing the demand for bookbinders.
B) The widespread availability of news on the web reduces the demand for newspaper workers.
C) An increase in the price of steel increases the cost of producing cars and trucks, thus decreasing the demand for automobile workers.
D) A decline in productivity in retailing decreases the demand for retail sales workers.

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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Marginal resource cost is


A) the increase in variable costs resulting from producing one more unit of output.
B) the increase in fixed costs resulting from producing one more unit of output.
C) the same as the marginal cost of the product.
D) the same as the resource price when a firm is acquiring the resource in a purely competitive market.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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It will be profitable for a firm to hire additional units of any resource up to the point at which its MRP is equal to its MRC.

A) True
B) False

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