Which of the following real-world situations is the result of excess capacity in a monopolistically competitive market? a. A factory producing women's clothing produces more than it can sell during a season.
b. Gas stations with infrequently used pumps are located at all four corners of an intersection.
c. A retail auto tire store orders too much inventory.
d. Monopolistically competitive firms do not exist in the real world.

Suppose that a worker in caninia can produce either 2 blankets or 8 meals per day, and a worker in felinia can produce either 5 blankets or 1 meal per day. each nation has 10 workers. for many years, the two countries traded, each completely specializing according to their respective comparative advantages. now war has broken out between them and all trade has stopped. without trade, caninia produces and consumes 10 blankets and 40 meals per day and felinia produces and consumes 25 blankets and 5 meals per day. the war has caused the combined daily output of the two countries to decline by

Intronix uses copy editors, computer graphics specialists, and java programmers to produce ads for magazines and the internet. the average new ad for magazines typically requires 180 hours of a copy editor's time and 135 hours of a computer graphics specialist's time, whereas ads produced for the internet require 35 hours of copy editor time, 195 hours of computer graphics time, and 60 hours of a java programmer's time. lassie food, a dog food manufacturer, has hired intronix to produce ads in the next four week. although currently it considers magazine ads 3 times more valuable than internet ads, it still wishes to have at least 2 of each produced within the next four weeks. intronix has assigned up to 3 copy editors, 4 computer graphics specialists, and 1 java programmer, each committed to work up to 70 hours per week on the project. how many of each type of ad should be produced to maximize the overall value to lassie foods

Which of the following statements is (are) true? i. free entry to a perfectly competitive industry results in the industry's firms earning zero economic profit in the long run, except for the most efficient producers, who may earn economic rent. ii. in a perfectly competitive market, long-run equilibrium is characterized by lmc < p < latc. iii. if a competitive industry is in long-run equilibrium, a decrease in demand causes firms to earn negative profit because the market price will fall below average total cost.