Suppose That in Enigma, Ohio, Klutzes Have a Productivity of $1,000

question 31

Multiple Choice

Suppose that in Enigma, Ohio, klutzes have a productivity of $1,000 and kandos have a productivity of $4,000 per month.You can't tell klutzes from kandos by looking at them or asking them, and it is too expensive to monitor individual productivity.Kandos, however, have more patience than klutzes.Listening to an hour of dull lectures is as bad as losing $250 for a klutz and $100 for a kando.There will be a separating equilibrium in which anybody who attends a course of H hours of lectures is paid $4,000 per month and anybody who does not is paid $1,000 per month

• A)if 12 < H < 30.
• B)if 12 < H < 60.
• C)for all positive values of H.
• D)only in the limit as H approaches infinity.
• E)if 10 < H < 25.

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Definitions:

Marginal Revenue

The increase in revenue that results from selling one more unit of a product.

Imperfect Competition

A market structure characterized by the presence of several competing firms but which lack the conditions of perfect competition, often leading to market power.

Implicit Cost

The monetary income a firm sacrifices when it uses a resource it owns rather than supplying the resource in the market; equal to what the resource could have earned in the best-paying alternative employment; includes a normal profit.

Forgone Rent

The potential income lost by choosing to use a property or resource in a way that is not financially optimal, such as using land for personal use instead of renting it out.