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ECO 550 Final Exam (36 Questions with Correct Answers)

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production process exhibiting increasing returns to scale<br />

constant cost industry<br />

avoidance of duplication of facilities<br />

protection of consumers from price discrimination<br />

Question 10<br />

____ as practiced by public utilities is designed to encourage greater usage and therefore spread<br />

the fixed costs of the utility’s plant over a larger number of units of output.<br />

Answer<br />

Peak load pricing<br />

Inverted block pricing<br />

Block pricing<br />

First degree price discrimination<br />

Question 11<br />

In natural monopoly, AC continuously declines due to economies in distribution or in<br />

production, which tends to found in industries which face increasing returns to scale. If price<br />

were set equal to marginal cost, then:<br />

Answer<br />

price would equal average cost.<br />

price would exceed average cost.<br />

price would be below average cost.<br />

price would be at the profit maximizing level for natural monopoly<br />

Question 12<br />

Regulatory agencies engage in all of the following activities except _______.<br />

Answer<br />

controlling entry into the regulated industries

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