ECON 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Externality, Monopolistic Competition, Deadweight Loss

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In the real world; perfect price discrimination is not possible: So firms, divide customers into groups based on some observable trait that is likely related to. Between monopoly and competition two extremes: perfect competition: many firms, identical products, monopoly: one firm, one product. The equilibrium in a monopolistically competitive market differs from that in a perfectly competitive market in two related ways: each firm in a monopolistically competitive market has excess capacity. That is, it operates on the downward sloping portion of the average total cost curve: each firm charges a price above marginal cost. Monopolistic competition does not have all the desirable properties of perfect competition. There is the standard dead weight loss of monopoly caused by the markup of price over marginal cost. In addition, the number of firms ( and thus the variety of products) can be too large or too small.

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32. Which of the following is not a difference between monopolies and perfectly competitive markets?

A. Monopolies face downward sloping demand curves while perfectly competitive firms face horizontal demand curves.

B. Monopolies charge a price higher than marginal cost while perfectly competitive firms charge a price equal to marginal cost.

C. Monopolies can earn profits in the long run while perfectly competitive firms break even.

D. Monopolies choose to produce the quantity at which marginal revenue equals marginal cost while perfectly competitive firms do not.

40. Which of the following statements is not correct?

A. Both monopolies and monopolistically competitive firms can earn economic profits in the long run.

B. Both monopolistically competitive and perfectly competitive firms can earn economic profits in the short run.

C. Only competitive firms produce the welfare-maximizing level of output.

D. Firms in perfect competition, monopolistic competition, and monopoly maximize profits by producing where marginal revenue equals marginal cost.

43. A monopolistically competitive firm is currently producing 20 units of output. At this level of output the firm is charging a price equal to $20, has marginal revenue equal to $12, has marginal cost equal to $12, and has average total cost equal to $18. From this information we can infer that

A. the profits of the firm are negative.

B. firms are likely to leave this market in the long run.

C. the firm is currently maximizing its profit.

D. All of the above are correct.

21)

Compared to the results in a perfectly competitive market, a monopoly does which of the following?

	It charges a higher price.
	It charges a price greater than the marginal cost.
	It produces less output.
	All of the above
	None of the above

22)

"X-inefficiency" refers to the idea that

	government restrictions on competition create a monopoly, which results in inefficiency.
	the cost of rent-seeking activity should be added to the welfare cost of monopoly.
	Generation X is less efficient due to a lack of competitive spirit.
	a lack of competitive pressure results in a monopoly not keeping its costs down to the lowest possible level.
	price discrimination results in inefficiently low cross-elasticities of demand.

23)

Firms in which of the following market structures can engage in price discrimination?

	monopoly
	oligopoly
	monopolistic competition
	All of the above
	None of the above

24)

Monopolistic competition and perfect competition are in all of the following ways except

	Barriers to entry are low in both
	There are many firms in both
	Firms in both produce the output level where MR=MC
	Nonprice competition is important in both

25)

To get rid of excess capacity from the monopolistic competition in the long run, what would have to be given up?

	Free entry and exit.
	economic rent
	resource allocative efficiency
	differentiated product
	productive efficiency

taupeant454

1. When a profit-maximizing firm produces, they will be producing at that output at which marginal cost = marginal revenue:

all of the time
some of the time
on rare occasions
none of the time

2. Economics Profit is:

the same as accounting profit
sales minus explicit costs and implicit costs
sales minus variable costs and fixed costs
opportunity cost only

3. A market structure with so many firms that no one firm has any influence over price, and firms produce an identical product is called:

monopoly
oligopoly
perfect competition
monopolistic competition

4. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a perfectly competitive market?

identical products
perfect mobility
perfect knowledge
price maker

5. The demand curve in a perfectly competitive market is perfectly elastic.

true
false

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