If United Airlines acted as a "price leader" and all other airlines simply charged the same prices that United Airlines charged, then could this action be illegal because it is a form of "silent collusion?"

A. There is no such term in microeconomics known as "tacit" or "silent collusion."

B. Matching the prices of the price leader firm is a good example of a competitive market.

C. The U. S. Anti-Trust Department has always considered this business behavior as suspicious

and it does consider this pricing strategy to be illegal.

D. The famous 1982 anti-monopoly IBM court case said that this pricing strategy within an

industry is legal as long as the firms fill out quarterly reports to keep the U. S. Anti-Trust

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)

Capital financial corporation will lend 90 percent against account balances that have averaged 30 days or less; 80 percent for account balances between 31 and 40 days; and 70 percent for account balances between 41 and 45 days. customers that take over 45 days to pay their bills are not considered acceptable accounts for a loan. the current prime rate is 16.50 percent, and capital charges 3.50 percent over prime to charming as its annual loan rate. a. determine the maximum loan for which charming paper company could qualify.

Precision aviation had a profit margin of 6.25%, a total assets turnover of 1.5, and an equity multiplier of 1.8. what was the firm's roe? a. 15.23%b. 16.03%c. 16.88%d. 17.72%e. 18.60%