21 Jan 30 Tom wants to avoid any
ECN601 Economics
Week 7 Exam 2
Which of the following would not be illegal according to the Robinson-Patman Act?
“Party Packers” getting 10 cents off every pack of ribbon they buy after 1000 units
“Fred’s Farms” offering 50 cents off a crate of strawberries to retailers to match other suppliers with similar rates.
“Sam’s Sandwiches” receiving 5 cents off per pound of cheese
All of the above
2 The optimal strategy in a Vickery auction is to:
Bid aggressively.
Bid above your value since you would be paying the second highest price.
Bid exactly your value.
Bid below your value.
3 In a principal-agent relationship
The principal wants the agent to act on her own behalf.
The agent wants the principal to act on his behalf.
The principal wants the agent to act on the behalf of others.
The agent wants the principal to act on the behalf of others.
4 Compared to simple pricing, price discrimination leads to:
Loss in profits.
Increased revenue.
Consumer surplus being converted to producer surplus.
Both B and C.
5 The pricing rule MR=MC holds for:
All firms
Single product firms
Multiple product firms
None of the above
6 Which of the following is a violation of antitrust laws?
A firm discussing/fixing price with its competitors.
Making arrangements to stay out each other’s markets.
Merging with the competitor to eliminate competition.
All of the above
7 Nash equilibrium is:
Where one player maximizes payoff and the other does not.
When one player’s strategy is the best response to the other player’s strategy.
Where the outcome is always efficient.
Difficult to determine.
8 What is it called when each additional worker hired contributes successively smaller amounts of output?
Diminishing profitability
Diminishing total product
Diminishing marginal product
None of the above
9 If the VP of a product launch thinks that a particular product would be profitable, but ended up launching an unprofitable product, this will be a:
Type I error
Type II error
Neither Type I nor Type II error
False positive
10 You experiment by offering free warranties for your product in market A but not in market B. Sales in Market A rise from 240 to 360 units per week while sales in Market B rise from 410 to 430. The difference-in-difference estimate of the effect of the free warranty is:
80 units
100 units
120 units
140 units
11 Indirect price discrimination differs from direct price discrimination because:
In indirect price discrimination, high value consumers can sometimes still get the low price
In direct price discrimination, firms do not have to worry about cannibalizing.
Direct price discrimination encourages rivals to enter but indirect discrimination does not.
There is no difference between the two.
12 For jointly owned substitute products, cannibalization leads to MR______MC.
Higher than
Lower than
Equals
None of the above
13 Half of all your potential customers would pay $10 for your product, but the other half would only pay $8. You cannot tell them apart. Your marginal costs are $4. If you set the price at $8, the expected profit is:
$3
$4
$5
$6
14 For direct price discrimination to work effectively
The low-valued customers should not be able to engage in arbitrage.
You need to charge the same price to the different groups.
Both groups should have the same elasticity of demand.
None of the above
15 For a production function with a diminishing, but positive, marginal product of labor:
Output increases at an increasing rate as more workers are employed
Output increases at a decreasing rate as more workers are employed.
Output declines as more workers are employed.
The effects on marginal product are unknown.
16 Which of the following is true?
Incentive compensation imposes no risks on the agents and thus should not affect their compensation.
Incentive compensation imposes risk on the agent but need not be compensated for.
Incentive compensation imposes risk on the agent for which the agent should be compensated
Incentive compensation is a bad idea
17 Jim has a better chance of having his offer accepted, since the seller does not have any outside offers.
Jim has a better chance of having his offer accepted, since the seller does not have any outside offers.
Jim has lower chances of having his offer accepted, since the seller has more outside offers.
The disagreement value for the seller has increased
Only A and C
18 The general rule to increase profits when two close complementary brands are jointly owned is:
Increase prices for both brands.
Decrease prices for both brands.
Increase prices on one brand, and decrease prices it for the other.
Increase prices on one brand, but keeping the prices of the second brand constant.
19 Which of the following is a screen against adverse selection?
Insurance companies require homeowners to have smoke detectors
Rearview cameras in cars.
Installing engine monitors to track driving habits of the insured.
Prospective secretaries must take a typing test before being hired.
20 Use the table provided to answer the following question. If the groups are of equal size and the firm can only set one price, how should the firm price the high-end wok?
Price low and sell to both groups.
Price high and sell only to the professional chefs.
Price low and sell only to the home users.
All of the above
21 An HVAC company is selling heating and cooling equipment. It has separate sales and marketing units. The marketing unit would want to:
Price aggressively to ensure sales are made.
Price less aggressively to ensure that profitable sales are made.
Price at cost to maximize sales.
None of the above
22 Moral hazard implies that:
Insured individuals exercise less care because they have less incentive to do so.
Insured individuals exercise more care because they have less incentive to do so.
Insured individuals exercise more care because they have more incentive to do so.
Insured individuals exercise less care because they have more incentive to do so.
23 Which of the following is not an example of risk aversion?
You lock your garage when you have expensive workshop tools.
You are more careful when you buy a more expensive car.
Individuals tend to gamble more with their money when the future is uncertain.
You only go swimming when the lifeguard is on duty.
24 The tradeoff between ____ and _____ is represented as the labor supply curve.
Work and wages
Work and leisure
Wages and productivity
Technology and wages
25 Viceroy Vacations is deciding on how to price its vacation packages. Which of the following strategies would you suggest?
Price the flight, hotel, and car separately.
Advertise them as an all-inclusive vacations.
Give them away as free vacations to everyone.
Close down your company. No one goes on vacations anymore.
26 Use the table provided to answer the following question. If the firm decides to only offer the high-end wok, what is the highest price it can charge the chefs?
$70
$80
$90
$100
27 In a two-person repeated game, a tit-for-tat strategy is:
When each player pursues his or her own self-interest without any cooperation.
When players start off as noncooperative and then cooperate when one or both players show interest in colluding.
When players start by cooperating and then mimic the other player’s last move.
When neither player defects.
28 Three possibilities are equally likely and have payoffs of $6, $12, and $24. The expected value is:
$4
$14
$6
$7
29 Tom wants to avoid any accidents on the work floor of his factory. If an accident does occur, it would cost him $500,000 in damages. Installing safety equipment would decrease the probability of an accident occurring from 20% to 10%. However, the equipment costs $20,000 to install. Would Tom install the safety equipment?
Yes, because it costs him less than it is worth.
Yes, because it costs him more than it is worth.
No, because it costs him more than it is worth.
No, because it costs him less than it is worth.
30 Tom wants to avoid any accidents on the work floor of his factory. If an accident does occur, it would cost him $500,000 in damages. Installing safety equipment would decrease the probability of an accident occurring from 20% to 10%. However, the equipment costs $20,000 to install. What is his expected loss after installing the safety equipment?
$20,000
$50,000
$100,000
$125,000
Our website has a team of professional writers who can help you write any of your homework. They will write your papers from scratch. We also have a team of editors just to make sure all papers are of HIGH QUALITY & PLAGIARISM FREE. To make an Order you only need to click Ask A Question and we will direct you to our Order Page at WriteEdu. Then fill Our Order Form with all your assignment instructions. Select your deadline and pay for your paper. You will get it few hours before your set deadline.
Fill in all the assignment paper details that are required in the order form with the standard information being the page count, deadline, academic level and type of paper. It is advisable to have this information at hand so that you can quickly fill in the necessary information needed in the form for the essay writer to be immediately assigned to your writing project. Make payment for the custom essay order to enable us to assign a suitable writer to your order. Payments are made through Paypal on a secured billing page. Finally, sit back and relax.
Do you need help with this question?
Get assignment help from WriteEdu.com Paper Writing Website and forget about your problems.
WriteEdu provides custom & cheap essay writing 100% original, plagiarism free essays, assignments & dissertations.
With an exceptional team of professional academic experts in a wide range of subjects, we can guarantee you an unrivaled quality of custom-written papers.
Chat with us today! We are always waiting to answer all your questions.