A firm with explicit costs of $2,000,000, no implicit costs, and total revenue of $3,000,000 would have:
C. an accounting profit and an economic profit of $1,000,000
At which outpout is the firm operating most efficiently?
Where MC = ATC
The marginal cost curve intersects the ATC curve at its
A. minimum point, which is the break-even point
A profit-maximizing firm will increase production when
D. price exceeds marginal cost
The lowest point on a firm's short-run supply curve is at the
b. shutdown point
A firm will operate at that output where MC equals MR
c. both when it is maximizing its profits and when it is minimizing its losses
When marginal cost is rising, but is less than average total cost, we are definitely below the
b. break-even point
Which statement is true?
A. Accouting profits are greater than economic profits.
Statement 1: Price is equal to total revenue divided by output. Statement 2: A firm never maximizes profits.
A. Statement 1 is true, and statement 2 is false.
If a firm is producing a level of output at which that output's marginal cost is less than the price of the good, ______
c. higher profits could be obtained with increased production
The firm's long-run supply curve runs along its _____ curve.
c. MC
A firm will operate at that output at which MC = MR _______
c. in both the short run and the long run
Statement 1: The firm's short-run supply curve runs up the marginal cost curve from the shutdown point to the break-even point.
Statement 2: The firm will not accept a price below the break-even pointin the short run.
D. Both statements are false.
A business firm is in the short-run _______
a. virtually all the time
If the price is between the shutdown point and the break-even point, the firm is in there __________
b. short run taking a loss
The most efficient output of a firm is located _______
b. at the break-even point
Which one of these markets would definitely not be perfectly competetive?