Marginal cost is equal to average total cost when a. average variable cost is falling. b. marginal cost is at its minimum. c. av
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Explanation:
The government taxes packs of cigarettes both to discourage smoking and to raise tax revenue. The average excise tax on a pack of cigarettes is $2.50 per pack. The table below presents the annual demand and supply schedules, in billions of packs, both before and after the tax on packs of cigarettes.
Explanation:
It is given that in the market there are four equal-sized firms that produce similar products. The market is saturated such that 10% industry-wide price rise would lead to 18% decline in units sold by all firms in the industry. Going further, there is a proposed legislation that imposes a tariff on a key input used by the industry, which on realization would result in the increase in marginal cost by $2.
This means that the market elasticity of demand is:
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