Intro to Microeconomics

Questions for discussion

Chapter 7

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  • Are colleges subject to economies of scale or diseconomies?

 

  • What causes unit labor costs to rise in some nations and fall in others?
  • Suppose all your friends offered to help wash your car. Would marginal physical product decline as more friends helped? Why or why not?

 

 

Chapter 8

  • How can the demand curve facing a firm be horizontal if the market demand curve is downward-sloping?
  • Why isn’t the rate of output that minimizes average total cost the most profitable rate of output?
  • Is Apple Computer a perfectly competitive firm?

 

Chapter 9

  • Why would anyone want to enter a profitable industry knowing that profits would eventually be eliminated by competition?
  • What industries do you regard as being highly competitive? Can you identify any barriers to entry in those industries?
  • What happens to the factors of production that exit an industry?

 

Chapter 10

  • How does individualized price discrimination by car dealers affect their total revenue and profits?
  • What would have happened to iPad prices and features if Apple had not faced competition from iPad clones?
  • What similarities exist between the AT&T, Microsoft, and Google antirust cases?

 

Chapter 11

  • How many bookstores are on or near your campus? If there were more bookstores, how would the price of new and used books be affected?
  • If an oligopolist knows rivals will match a price cut, would it ever reduce its price?
  • Domino’s and Pizza Hut hold 66 percent of the delivered-pizza market. Should antitrust action be taken?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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