The Equilibrium Point Represents the Only Price-Quantity Combination in a Market

question 22

Multiple Choice

The equilibrium point represents the only price-quantity combination in a market that:

• A)causes both buyers and sellers to agree to a price increase.
• B)causes both buyers and sellers to agree to a price decrease.
• C)exactly matches the independent plans of buyers and sellers.
• D)allows buyers to purchase what they want.
• E)allows sellers to earn a positive profit.

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Definitions:

Collusion Methods

Strategies used by firms to set prices or output levels by agreement rather than through competition, often to maximize profits illegally or unethically.

Cartels

Coalitions of independent businesses formed to regulate production, pricing, and marketing of goods to maximize collective profits.

Price Leadership

A market situation where one or more dominant firms set the price of goods or services, and other firms in the industry follow suit.

Kinked-Demand Curve Model

An economic theory suggesting that prices become rigid or sticky due to competing firms' responses to price changes.