EC260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Perfect Competition, Market Power, Marginal Revenue

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Market structure affects pricing power of firm so we define markets based on degree of pricing power. Perfectly competitive market: managers have no market power. Monopoly: managers face no competition = lots of market power. Market structure determined by a number of factors: number of firms present, type of product being sold, pricing power of firm, barriers to entry, nonprice competition. Public utilities: market price in perfect competition and the impact of supply and demand shifts. Perfectly competitive market = many producers with no influence over price of product. Every product is similar to the other ones in the market; barriers to entry are low. 2. 1 how market price is determined in perfect competition. Perfect competition market price determined by intersection of supply and demand. Market supply curve: total amount that individual suppliers of good are willing to sell at each price. Market demand curve: total amount that individual buyers are willing to buy at each price.

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1. Which of the following is a characteristic of pure monopoly?

A. close substitute products

B. barriers to entry

C. the absence of market power

D. "price taking"

2. An example of a monopoly would be

A. one of many U.S. wheat farmers

B. one of the few U.S. automakers

C. AT&T cell phone service

D. the local water company

3. In which market structure do firms exist in very large numbers, each firm produces an identical product, and there is freedom of entry and exit?

A. monopoly

B. oligopoly

C. only perfect competition

D. only monopolistic competition

E. both perfect competition and monopolistic competition

4. Which of the following is the best example of a perfectly competitive market?

A. farming

B. diamonds

C. athletic shoes

D. soft drinks

E. electricity distribution

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If an industry has no barriers to entry, no product promotion strategy, a standardized product type, and a very large number of firms operating within it, the industry can be said to have

Select one:

a. a monopoly market structure.

b. perfect competition.

c. differentiated market.

d. monopolistic competition.

e. an oligopoly market structure.

The long-run average-cost curve

Select one:

a. connects the minimum points of all the short-run average-total-cost curves.

b. connects the maximum points of all the short-run average-total-cost curves.

c. connects minimum points on the short-run total-cost curves.

d. indicates the most efficient scale of operation for a given level of output.

e. is the most efficient scale of operation.

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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