Costs That Do Not Involve Actual Payment by a Firm

question 57

Multiple Choice

Costs that do not involve actual payment by a firm to factors of production but which nevertheless represent costs to the firm in the sense that in order to use certain inputs in the production process the firm has to abandon opportunities to use them elsewhere are:

• A) explicit costs
• B) opportunity costs
• C) fixed costs
• D) historical costs
• E) variable costs

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