Economists Have Used the Ultimatum Game and the Dictator Game

question 279

Multiple Choice

Economists have used the ultimatum game and the dictator game in experiments designed to determine

• A)whether consumers care about fairness when they make decisions.
• B)whether consumers believe it is fair for producers to raise the price of a product for which there is excess demand.
• C)whether consumers understand the difference between implicit costs and explicit costs.
• D)whether consumers understand the rule of equal marginal utility per dollar spent.

Analyze the components of the predetermined overhead rate (fixed and variable components).

Calculate and understand the concept of underapplied or overapplied overhead.

Understand the process of applying overhead to products and its effect on product cost.

Evaluate the financial implications of overhead variances on manufacturing costs and budgeting.

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Definitions:

Factors Of Production

The inputs used in the production of goods or services in the attempt to make an economic profit, including land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.

Input

Resources used in the production process, including labor, capital, materials, and energy.

Output

The final product or service produced from the input resources in a production process.

Function

In mathematics, a relation between a set of inputs and a set of permissible outputs with the property that each input is related to exactly one output.