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ADVERSE SELECTION: When a negotiation between two people with different amounts of information, that is, asymmetric information, restricts the quality of the good traded. This typically happens because the person with more information is able to negotiate a favorable exchange. This is frequently referred to as the "market for lemons."
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- How demand and supply schedules can be used to illustrate the law of demand, the law of supply, and market interaction.
- How an equilibrium price equates the quantity demanded with the quantity supplied, but nonequilibrium prices do not.
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MARGINAL COST CURVE A curve that graphically represents the relation between the marginal cost incurred by a firm in the short-run product of a good or service and the quantity of output produced. This curve is constructed to capture the relation between marginal cost and the level of output, holding other variables like technology and resource prices constant. Three related curves are average total cost curve, average variable cost curve, and average fixed cost curve.
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A half gallon milk jug holds about $50 in pennies.
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