ECON 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Perfect Competition, Demand Curve, Takers

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4 Sep 2019

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University of Windsor

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Economics

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ECON 1100

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Dr.Michael Batu

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Theory of perfect competition: in perfect competition firms are price takers, there is freedom of entry and exit: The demand curve facing a perfectly competitive firm is horizontal. If price > pc, the consumer is willing to buy nothing. If the price is less than or equal to ( < ) pc, the consumer is willing to buy positive amounts of q. Variations in firms output have no effect on the price. The industry of market demand curve remain downward sloping. Revenue firms receive from the sales of their product. The change in the firm"s total revenue with respect to a change in quantity. From the above table, we can observe that as a result of the firm changing its output, neither mr or ar vary with output. If the market price is unaffected by variations in the firm"s output, the demand curve, ar curve, and mr curve all coincide in the same horizontal line.

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A major difference between monopolistic competition and perfect competition is:

a. there are barriers to entry in monopolistic competition. There are no barriers to entry in perfectly competitive markets.

b. monopolistically competitive firms sell differentiated products. Perfectly competitive firms sell identical products.

c. government regulation restricts the ability of monopolistically competitive firms to change their prices. Perfectly competitive firms face no price regulation.

d. the market demand curve in a monopolistically competitive market slopes downward. The market demand curve in a perfectly competitive market is horizontal

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1) A natural monopoly exists when:

a. A few firms collude to make one large firm

b. Firms enter the industry as a result of profit incentives

c. Economies of scale provide large cost advantages to having one firm produce the industry's output

d. Firms naturally maximize regardless of market structure

2) A(n) ____ is a single firm with ___, whereas a(n) ___ implies an industry with ____ firm(s) and ____ .

a. Monopoly; barriers to entry; oligopoly; few; no barriers to entry

b. Oligopoly; no barriers to entry; monopoly; many; easy entry and exit

c. Monopoly; barriers to entry; monopolistic competition; many; easy entry and exit

d. Monopolistic competitor; barriers to entry; monopoly; one; barriers to entry

3) In monopolistic competition:

a. Each firm produces a product identical to that of every other firm in the industry

b. Firms are aware of their strategic interdependence

c. Firms earn large economic profits in the long run

d. Firms earn zero economic profits in the long run

4) A monopolistically competitive industry, such as corn snack chips, and a perfectly competitive industry, like wheat farming, are alike in that:

a. There are many firms in each industry

b. Firms in both types of industries produce similar but not identical products

c. Barriers to entry in both industries are large

d. Firms in both types of industries produce identical products

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1. A monopoly market structure is characterized by

a. large number of firms, standardized products, easy entry and exit.

b. large number of firms, differentiated products, easy entry and exit.

C. small number of firms, standardized or differentiated products, difficult entry.

d. one firm, a unique product without close substitutes, and impossible entry.

e. one firm, differentiated product, impossible entry.

2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of monopolistic competition?

a. Differentiated products

b. A downward-sloping demand curve for individual firms

c. Firms that are price makers

d. Impeded entry into the industry

e. A large number of firms

3. One factor that distinguishes oligopoly from other market structures is

a. the ease of entry into the market.

b. the interdependence of firms.

c. the slope of the demand curve.

d. the degree of product differentiation.

e. the amount of advertising expenditures.

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ECON 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Perfect Competition, Demand Curve, Takers

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