If Input Prices Increase with Industry Expansion

question 22

Multiple Choice

If input prices increase with industry expansion

• A) the short-run market supply curve will become more elastic.
• B) profits will decline.
• C) industry costs will fall.
• D) the firm's marginal cost curves will not shift.
• E) the market supply curve is not the horizontal summation of the firm's supply curves.

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