Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Economics Honors

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Question
Answer
Perfect Competition   Firms all produce the same product and no single seller controls supply or prices  
🗑
Commodity   Product that is the same no matter who produces or sells it  
🗑
Barrier to Entry   Any fator that makes it difficult to a new firm to enter a market  
🗑
Imperfent Competition   Fails to meet the conditions of perfect competition  
🗑
Start-up Cost   A new business must pay before it can begin to produce and sell goods  
🗑
Monoply   Single seller dominates  
🗑
Economies of Scale   Factors that cause a produccer's average cost to fall as output rises  
🗑
Natural Monoply   market runs most efficiently when one large firm supplies all of the output  
🗑
Government Monopoly   monopoly created by the government  
🗑
Patenet   License, gives inventor of a new product the exclusive right to sell it for a specific period of time  
🗑
Frachise   Contract that ives a single firm the right to sell its goods within an exclusive market  
🗑
License   A government-issued right to operate a business  
🗑
Price Discrimination   the division of comsumers into groups based on how much they will pay for a good  
🗑
Market Power   The ability of a company to control prices and total market output  
🗑
Momopolistic Competition   A market structure in which many companies sell products that are similar but not identical  
🗑
Differentiation   Making a product different from other, similar product  
🗑
Nonprice Competition   A way to attract customers throught style, service, or location, but not a lower price  
🗑
Oligopoly   A market structure in which a few large firms dominate a market  
🗑
Price War   A series of competitve price cuts that lowers the market price below the ocst of production  
🗑
Collusion   An illegal agreement amoung firms to divide the market, set prices, or limit production  
🗑
Price fixing   An agreement amoung firms to change one orice for the same good  
🗑
Cartel   A formal organization of producers that agree to coordinate prices and production  
🗑
Predatory Pricing   selling a product below cost for a short period of time to drive competition out of the market  
🗑
Antitrust Laws   Laws that encourage competition in the marketplace  
🗑
Trust   An illegal grouping of companies that discourages competition  
🗑
Merger   When two or more companies join together to form one firm  
🗑
Deregulation   The removal of some government controls over a market  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: chgolynne
Popular History sets