When New Firms Have an Incentive to Enter a Competitive

question 116

Multiple Choice

When new firms have an incentive to enter a competitive price-taker market, their entry will

• A) increase the price of the product.
• B) drive down profits of existing firms in the market.
• C) shift the market supply curve to the left.
• D) increase demand for the product.

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Definitions:

Sample Size

The number of observations or replicates used in a statistical sample.

Confidence Estimate

A range or interval within which an unknown population parameter is expected to lie, calculated to a specific confidence level.

Observations

The act of monitoring or recording systematically selected variables or data points for a particular study.

Value Of T

A calculated statistic used in t-tests that measures the size of the difference relative to the variation in the sample data, commonly used to test hypotheses about means.