Principles of Microeconomics MCQ
When production reflects consumer preferences, ________ occurs.
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Allocative efficiency.
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A tax on suppliers will cause the ________ schedule to shift ________.
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Supply, left
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In the simplest circular-flow model, households supply ________ and demand ________.
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Factors of production; goods and services
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What is the definition of "specialization?"
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A concentration of production effort into a single specific task
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What is a social insurance transfer?
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A transfer payment that does not depend on the income of the recipient.
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Yield to maturity is ________.
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The annual rate of return on a bond if the bond were held to maturity
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What is the World Trade Organization?
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An international organization that can mediate trade disputes.
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What does yield measures?
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The annual rate of return on a bond if the bond were held to maturity.
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What is wage?
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The price of labor defined over a period of time worked.
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What are variable costs?
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Costs of production that vary with the quantity of production
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Variable costs are otherwise known as what?
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Costs of production that vary with the quantity of production.
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What is a unit-free measure?
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A measure that does not depend on a unit of measurement.
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What is unemployment insurance?
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A program that makes payments to people who lose their jobs.
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What does a tax bracket refer to?
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A range of taxable income that is taxed at the same rate.
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What is a tariff?
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A Tax on imports
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What is a tangency point?
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The only point in common for two curves; the point where the two curves just touch.
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What is tacit collusion?
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Implicit or unstated cooperation of firms to make mutually beneficial pricing or production decisions.
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What is the shift of the curve caused by?
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A change in a variable not represented on either axis.
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What does the Sherman Antitrust Act do?
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Reduces anticompetitive behavior
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What is a scatter plot?
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A graph which points in a Cartesian coordinate system represent the values of two variables.
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What is sales tax?
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A type of excise tax that applies to total expenditures on a broad group of goods.
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What is the real wage?
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The wage or price of labor adjusted for inflation
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What is the rate of technical substitution?
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The rate at which one input must be substituted for another input to maintain the same production
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What is the rate of return?
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The return on an asset stated as a percentage of the price of the asset.
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What does ROR stand for?
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Rate of return
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What is quantity supplied?
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The quantity of a good that firms are willing to sell at a given price.
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What is quantity demanded?
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The quantity of a good that people want to buy at a given price during a specific time period.
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What does a positive slope represent?
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A slope of a curve that is greater than zero, representing a positive or direct relationship between two variables.
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What is positive externality?
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The situation in which benefits spill over onto someone who is not involved in producing or consuming the goods.
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What is positive economics?
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Economic analysis that explains what happens in the economy and why, without making recommendations about economic policy.
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What does portfolio diversification mean?
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Spreading the collection of assets owned in order to limit exposure to risk.
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What is the piece-rate system?
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A system by which workers are paid a specific amount per unit they produce.
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What is a personal income tax?
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A tax on all forms of income an individual or household receives.
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What is the term for supply for which the price elasticity is zero?
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Perfectly inelastic supply
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What is the demand for which the price elasticity is zero called?
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Perfectly inelastic demand
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What is the elasticity of supply if it is perfectly elastic?
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What is perfectly elastic demand?
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Demand for which the price elasticity is infinite
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What is a payroll tax?
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A tax on the wages and salaries of individuals.
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What is Pareto efficient?
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A situation in which it is not possible to make someone better off without making someone else worse off
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What is Pareto efficiency?
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A situation in which it is not possible to make someone better off without making someone else worse off.
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What is an oligopoly?
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An industry characterized by few firms selling the same product with limited entry of other firms
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What is a synonym for "negatively related"?
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Inversely related
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What does a negative slope represent?
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A negative or inverse relationship between two variables
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What is a negative slope?
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A slope of a curve that is less than zero, representing a negative or inverse relationship between two variables.
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What set of strategies is a Nash equilibrium?
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A set of strategies from which no player would like to deviate unilaterally.
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What is the marginal social benefit?
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It is the marginal benefit from consumption of a good from the viewpoint of society as a whole.
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What is marginal social benefit?
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The marginal benefit from consumption of a good from the viewpoint of society as a whole
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What is the marginal revenue product of labor?
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The change in total revenue due to a one-unit increase in labor input, holding other inputs fixed
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What is the marginal revenue product of capital?
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The change in total revenue due to a one-unit increase in capital.
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What is marginal revenue?
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The change in total revenue due to a one-unit increase in quantity sold.
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What does MRS stand for?
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Marginal Rate of Substitution
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What is the marginal product of labor?
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The change in production due to a one-unit increase in labor input.
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What is marginal private cost?
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The marginal cost of production as viewed by the private firm or individual.
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What is marginal private benefit?
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The marginal benefit from consumption of a good as viewed by a private individual.
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What is marginal cost pricing?
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A regulatory method that stipulates that the firm charge a price that equals marginal cost.
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What is the marginal benefit?
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The increase in the benefit from, or the willingness to pay for, one more unit of a good.
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What does "marginal benefit" refer to?
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The increase in the benefit from one more unit of a good.
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What are mandated benefits?
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Benefits that a firm is required by law to provide to its employees
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What is Macroeconomics?
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The branch of economics that examines the workings and problems of the economy as a whole—GDP growth and unemployment.
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What does the term "labor intensive production" mean?
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A production that uses a relatively low level of capital per worker.
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What is the labor demand?
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The relationship between the quantity of labor demanded by firms and the wage.
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What does "labor abundant" mean?
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A lower level of capital per worker in one country relative to another
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What is the income effect?
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The amount by which the quantity demanded falls because of the decline in real income from a price increase.
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What does incentive regulation allow firms to do?
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Keep additional profits or suffer losses
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What is an incentive?
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A device that motivates people to take action, usually so as to increase economic efficiency.
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What is the range of the Herfindahl-Hirschman index?
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0 to 10,000
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What does Head Start provide?
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Day care and nursery school training for poor children
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What is the Head Start program?
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A government transfer program that provides day care and nursery school training for poor children.
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What is game theory?
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A branch of applied mathematics with many uses in economics
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What is meant by the gains from trade?
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Improvements in income, production, or satisfaction owing to the exchange of goods or services.
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What is a firm?
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An organization that produces goods or services.
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What is the Federal Trade Commission?
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The government agency established to help enforce antitrust legislation in the United States
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Factor-price equalization is the equalization of the price of what across countries when they are engaging in free trade?
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Labor and capital
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What is economic profit?
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Total revenue minus total costs, where total costs include opportunity costs, whether implicit or explicit.
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What is an economic model?
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An explanation of how the economy or part of the economy works.
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What are economic interactions?
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Exchanges of goods and services between people.
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What does earnings refer to?
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The accounting profits of a firm.
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What is the earned income tax credit?
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A payment from the government to people with low income who work
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What is a demand curve?
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A graph of demand showing the downward-sloping relationship between price and quantity demanded.
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What is the definition of demand?
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A relationship between price and quantity demanded.
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What is the term used to describe the relationship between price and quantity demanded?
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In a deferred payment contract, when is the worker paid more than the marginal revenue product?
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When the worker is old
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A debt contract is a contract in which the lender provides funds today in exchange for _____.
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A promise from the borrower to repay that amount plus interest at some point in the future
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What does deadweight loss refer to?
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The loss in producer and consumer surplus due to an inefficient level of production.
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What was the Clayton Antitrust Act passed in the United States?
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To prevent monopolies from forming through mergers.
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What is the definition of "choice"?
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A selection among alternative goods, services, or actions
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What does ceteris paribus mean?
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Holding all other variables constant or keeping all other things the same when one variable is changed.
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What does the Latin phrase "ceteris paribus" mean?
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"all other things being equal"
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What are the two perpendicular lines called in a Cartesian coordinate system?
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What is the definition of "cartel"?
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A group of producers in the same industry who coordinate pricing and production decisions.
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What is the basic principle of capitalism?
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An economic system based on a market economy in which capital is individually owned
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What is capital loss?
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The decrease in the value of an asset through a decrease in its price.
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What is capital intensive production?
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Production that uses a relatively high level of capital per worker.
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What is capital gain?
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The increase in the value of an asset through an increase in its price.
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What is meant by "capital abundant"?
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A higher level of capital per worker in one country relative to another.
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What does the term "barriers to entry" refer to?
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Anything that prevents firms from entering a market.
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What labor supply curve is shown in the situation where the income effect outweighs the substitution effect of an increase in the wage?
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Backward-bending labor supply curve
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What causes the labor supply curve to take on a negative slope?
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The income effect outweighs the substitution effect of an increase in the wage.
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Adverse selection is a situation in which the people who choose to buy insurance will be the:
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Riskiest group in the population
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What is adverse selection?
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A situation in which the people who choose to buy insurance will be the riskiest group in the population
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What is a ad valorem tariff?
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A tax on imports evaluated as a percentage of the value of the import
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Which of the following is true about accounting profits?
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Accounting profits are total revenue minus total costs.
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What is the definition of accounting profits?
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Accounting profits are total revenue minus total costs, where total costs exclude the implicit opportunity costs.
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What is absolute advantage?
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A person or country is more efficient at producing a good in comparison with another person or country.
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What is the ability-to-pay principle?
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The view that those with greater income should pay more in taxes than those with less income.
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