In the long run, a monopolistically competitive firm will earn: (a) normal profits because economic profits will attract new firms and there are no entry restrictions.(b) economic profits because of product differentiation.(c) economic profits because of entry restrictions.(d) normal profits because costs are high for monopolistically competitive firms.

Who is not spending wisely? erika goes shopping and saves her receipts. she totals how much she spent and writes it down. mia needs to buy a new pair of shoes because she joined the soccer team. she looks at newspaper ads to find the best price. lauren has been thinking about getting a puppy for a long time. she walks by the pet store at the mall and decides to get a puppy. erin makes a purchase online using a credit card. she knows that she can pay the entire bill when it arrives.

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

Problem 8-6 cullumber company is a multi product firm. presented below is information concerning one of its products, the hawkeye. date transaction quantity price/cost 1/1 beginning inventory 2,700 $17 2/4 purchase 3,700 26 2/20 sale 4,200 43 4/2 purchase 4,700 33 11/4 sale 3,900 47 calculate average-cost per unit. (round answer to 4 decimal places, e.g. 2.7613.) average-cost per unit $ link to text compute cost of goods sold, assuming cullumber uses: (round average cost per unit to 4 decimal places, e.g. 2.7631 and final answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 6,548.) cost of goods sold (a) periodic system, fifo cost flow $ (b) perpetual system, fifo cost flow $ (c) periodic system, lifo cost flow $ (d) perpetual system, lifo cost flow $ (e) periodic system, weighted-average cost flow $ (f) perpetual system, moving-average cost flow $ click if you would like to show work for this question: open show work