If a Perfectly Competitive Industry Is Neither Expanding nor Contracting,we

question 175

Multiple Choice

If a perfectly competitive industry is neither expanding nor contracting,we would typically expect that:

• A) accounting profits to be zero.
• B) economic profits to be zero.
• C) the price of the good will be stable
• D) both (b) and (c) would be true.

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