CHAPTER 8, TEST A
True or False
Mark statements 1-24 true or false by writing Tor F on the line provided.
1.
All four types of market structure have similarities, including the fact that each of them has
buyers and sellers.
2. In a perfectly competitive market, buyers and sellers have relevant information about prices,
product quality, and sources of supply.
3. The stock market is an example of a perfectly competitive market.
4. If a perfectly competitive market doesn't satisfy all four characteristics 100 percent, then it isn't
a perfectly competitive market.
5.
Profit attracts new firms into the perfectly competitive market.
6.
There is ease of entry into a monopolistic market.
7. It is important to a monopolist to search out the best price through trial and error.
8. In some towns, cable television providers and trash collectors are monopolists
9. A pharmaceutical company may have a copyright on a medicine, which protects its company
from competitors for a period of time.
10. A patent is granted for a new product or process for five years.
11. Barriers to entry limit potential competition.
12. Owning all of a scarce resource can allow a firm to operate as a monopoly without legal
protection.
13. Antitrust laws are meant to control monopoly power and to promote competition.
14. The main points of the Sherman Act prohibit actions that result in restraint of trade and hold
the conspiring persons guilty of a misdemeanor.
15. A natural monopoly exists when a firm's product is made with resources provided by nature.
16. The U.S. Supreme Court decides some antitrust cases.
17. The term colluding refers to making secret agreements that reduce competition.
18. Taxi and limousine service in New York City is relatively inexpensive due to the ease of entry
into that market.