Across
- 4. minimum price for a good or service
- 7. dividing up goods and services using criteria other than price
- 8. the financial and opportunity costs consumers pay in searching for a good or service
- 11. the expenses that a new business must pay before the first product reaches the customer
- 14. quantity demanded is more than quantity supplied
- 15. demand and supply come together
- 16. the ability to control prices and total market output
- 18. a market that runs most efficiently when one large firm provides all of the output
- 20. contract issued by a local authority that gives a single firm the right to sell its goods within an exclusive market
- 22. allow consumers to pay more
- 23. characteristics that cause a producers average cost to drop as production rises
- 25. sudden shortage of goods
Down
- 1. factors that make it difficult for new firms to enter a market
- 2. prevent inflation during housing crisis in the early 1940s
- 3. a product that is considered the same regardless of who makes or sells it
- 5. the quantity demanded is greater than the quantity supplied
- 6. maximum price
- 9. market price or quantity supplied is anywhere but at the equilibrium
- 10. a minimum price that an employer can pay a worker for an hour of labor
- 12. externalities
- 13. gives a company exclusive rights to sell s new good or service for a specific period of time
- 17. monopoly created by the government
- 19. grants firms the right to operate a business
- 21. when barriers prevent firms from entering a market that has a single supplier
- 24. when quantity supplied exceeds quantity demanded at the given price
