MANKIW: PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS
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Author: Mankiw
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Chapter 14, Problem 2CQQ
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The condition of the competitive firm maximizing the profit by choosing the quantity.
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a. Draw the marginal cost and average total cost curves for a typical firm. Explain why the curves have the shapes that they do and why they cross where they do.
b. Does a competitive firm’s price equal its marginal cost in the short run, in the long run, or both? Explain.
If a profit-maximizing, competitive firm is producing a quantity at which marginal cost is between average variable cost and average total cost, it will
A. keep producing in the short run but exit the market in the long run.
B. shut down in the short run but return to production in the long run
C. shut down in the short run and exit the market in the long run.
D. keep producing both in the short run and in the long run.
A competitive firm maximizes profit by choosing thequantity at whicha. average total cost is at its minimum.b. marginal cost equals the price.c. average total cost equals the price.d. marginal cost equals average total cost.
Chapter 14 Solutions
MANKIW: PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS
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