Which of the following products/markets is most consistent with the perfect competition model?     Apple iPhones     a bustling farmers' market     Kellogg's Frosted Flakes     electric utilities     automobiles   2 Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” refers to         The mechanism that moves market price and quantity to equilibrium     The natural tendency of markets to avoid monopolies and ensure competition       The market’s incentive to lower price in order to increase quantity sold         The lack of government role in the free market due to the market’s ability to self-regulate         The tendency of firm’s to seek to merge in order to realize synergies and market dominance 3 A company facing inelastic demand for a product sees an increase in its costs after a worker strike forces a wage increase. What is likely to happen to the price and quantity sold of that product?       Price will fall slightly while quantity will rise a lot       Price will rise slightly while quantity will fall a lot       Price will rise slightly and quantity will fall slightly               Price will rise a lot while quantity will fall slightly         Price will rise a lot while quantity will fall a lot

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Which of the following products/markets is most consistent with the perfect competition model?

   

Apple iPhones

   

a bustling farmers' market

   

Kellogg's Frosted Flakes

   

electric utilities

   

automobiles

 

2

Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” refers to

 

 

   

The mechanism that moves market price and quantity to equilibrium

   

The natural tendency of markets to avoid monopolies and ensure competition

   

 

The market’s incentive to lower price in order to increase quantity sold

 

   

 

The lack of government role in the free market due to the market’s ability to self-regulate

 

   

 

The tendency of firm’s to seek to merge in order to realize synergies and market dominance

3

A company facing inelastic demand for a product sees an increase in its costs after a worker strike forces a wage increase. What is likely to happen to the price and quantity sold of that product?

 

   

Price will fall slightly while quantity will rise a lot

 

   

Price will rise slightly while quantity will fall a lot

 

   

Price will rise slightly and quantity will fall slightly

 

 

 

 

 

   

Price will rise a lot while quantity will fall slightly

 

 

   

Price will rise a lot while quantity will fall a lot

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