Chapter 8: Q.2 (page 210)
Would independent trucking fit the characteristics of a perfectly competitive industry?
The characteristics of perfect competition are well suited to independent trucking.
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What two lines on a cost curve diagram intersect at the zero-profit point?
How does the average cost curve help to show whether a firm is making profits or losses?
Briefly explain the reason for the shape of a marginal revenue curve for a perfectly competitive firm.
Explain how the profit-maximizing rule of setting P = MC leads a perfectly competitive market to be allocatively efficient.
Finding a life partner is a complicated process that may take many years. It is hard to think of this process as being part of a very complex market, with a demand and a supply for partners. Think about how this market works and some of its characteristics, such as search costs. Would you consider it a perfectly competitive market?
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