Dynamic Shifts
Elasticity
Cost Curves
Misc.
Stapp Facts
100

When supply and demand decrease proportionally, price …

stays the same

100

What type of customers are least responsive to price?

brand loyal

100

Total variable costs correspond to:

operating costs 

100
What is another name for short run costs?

sunk costs/unavoidable costs

100

George Soros manipulated which currency in 1997?

Thai Bhat

200

What is the name of the graph where supply decreases relative to demand?

Dynamic micro graph of cost push inflation 



200

The steeper the slope...

The more inelastic the demand 



200

Average fixed costs is equal to:

= TFC/Q

200

How do you calculate TRmax?

TRmax = P * Qsat/2

200

What is the top line and bottom line?

Total Revenue and Profit

300

T/F: When supply decreases relative to demand there is a shortage?                                   


    

TRUE

300

What type of customers are gained when price decreases?

marginal

300

What is the breakeven point on cost curves?

Where TR = TC

300

Where is the most efficient use of both fixed and variable inputs?

ATCmin

300

Which country did Trump declare a currency manipulator?

China

400

What is the name of the graph where demand increases relative to supply?

Micro dynamic graph of demand-pull inflation

400

How is a unit elastic product’s TR affected by an increase in price?

it doesn't change
400

What describes the production function term where the level of profits is less than the amount of money invested

Law of diminishing returns

400

What is the paradox of the flowerpot?

Law of diminishing returns- output will eventually increase at a decreasing rate

400

How can you tell a car is truly new?

Spikes on the tread of the tires

500

When demand decreases relative to supply what is the transfer?

From producers to consumers 

500

If a product’s price increases by 6% and the quantity demanded decreases by 3%, what type of elasticity is this product?

inelastic

500

How would you describe the inputs to the right of ATCmin on the ATC curve?

overcapitalized

500

total variable cost get it's shape from: 

the production function

500

Price wars commonly occurred with which two products?

gas and milk 
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