Principles of Microeconomics, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Economics with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (12th Edition)
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Author: Karl E. Case, Ray C. Fair, Sharon E. Oster
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A pretzel-stand owner in Chicago hires workers to make hot pretzels and sell them to customers. If the firm is competitive in both the market for pretzels and in the market for pretzel-makers, then it has
A. no control over the price of pretzels but some control over the wage it pays to its workers.
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Laurasia has identified the following goods as its market basket. Here are the prices of those goods over three years.
Compute the cost of that market basket in all three years.
Instructions: Round your answers to two decimal places.
Product
Burgers
Shoes
Scissors
Cost
Basket
Quantity
18
2015
3
2
2015 Price 2016 Price
$ 8.00
$ 55.00
$ 7.00
$6.00
$ 50.00
$ 8.00
2016
2017
2017 Price
$ 9.00
$ 45.00
$ 9.00
1. Does a perfectly competitive market exist in real life? Look at the following markets
and describe how close they are to perfect competition.
i. Market for bottled water.
ii. Market for foreign currency (say US$).
iii. Market for pork buns.
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