Increase in demand for nails

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You are the manager of a small U.S. firm that sells nails in a competitive U.S. market (the nails you sell are a standardized commodity; stores view your mails as identical to those available from hundreds of other firms). You are concerned about two events you recently learned about through trade publications (1) the overall market supply of nails will decrease by 2 percent, due to exit by foreign competitors; (2) due to a growing U.S> economy, the overall market demand of nails will increase by 2 percent. Based on this information, should you plan to increase or decrease your production of nails? Explain

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