Menu Costs Refers to

question 3

Multiple Choice

Menu costs refers to

• A)resources used by people to maintain lower money holdings when inflation is high.
• B)resources used to price shop during times of high inflation.
• C)the distortion in incentives created by inflation when taxes do not adjust for inflation.
• D)the cost of more frequent price changes induced by higher inflation.

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Definitions:

Average Total Cost

The total cost of production (fixed plus variable costs) divided by the total quantity of output produced. It measures the cost per unit of output.

Ceteris Paribus

a Latin phrase meaning "all other things being equal," used in economic models to isolate the effect of one variable.

Economies of Scale

The financial advantages gained by companies due to their operational scale, where there's a general decline in the cost per unit of output with the growth in scale.

Total Demand

The entire quantity of a particular good or service that all consumers in a market want to purchase at various price levels during a specified time period.