01:220:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Substitute Good, Perfect Competition, Demand Curve

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1. Perfect Competition

1. Characteristics

1. Large number of sellers

1. no one seller or group of sellers can have a significant effect on

the terms of exchange (transaction terms)

1. prices, quantity, share of market, type of product, distribution,

innovation, service warranty/guarantee

2. All sellers compete for buyers of the same (homogenous) product

3. The price is set

1. sellers must charge the going price or lose their sales to the

other firms

2. the firms are price-takers (they sell at the set prices in the

market)

4. No barriers to entry for firms that want to enter the market

1. examples: technological secrets, financial barriers, legal

constraints

5. No barriers to exit

1. examples: government subsidies, tax relief, import quotas, high

tariffs

7. The products produced are perfect substitutes for each other because

they are homogeneous

8. No pricing strategy

9. The price elasticity of demand for each firm is perfectly elastic

2. Monopoly

1. Characteristics

1. One seller of a product for which there are no close substitutes

2. Mostly inelastic

1. but consumers can be influenced by price changes

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What are the three conditions for a market to be perfectly competitive? For a market to be perfectly competitive, there must be:

A. many buyers and one seller, with the firm producing a product that has no close substitutes, and barriers to new firms entering the market.

B. many buyers and sellers, with firms selling similar but not identical products, with low barriers to new firms entering the market

C. many buyers and a few sellers, with all firms selling identical products, and no barriers to new firms entering the market.

D. many buyers and sellers, with all firms selling identical products, and no barriers to new firms entering the market.

E. many buyers and a small number of firms that compete, selling differentiated products, and barriers to new firms entering the market.

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13. One of the limitations of Five Forces is that:

a. These tools reduce producer surplus

b. For one firm to increase profit, it takes it from other participants in the industry

c. Does not provide a firm with sustainable competitve advantage

d. both b & c.

15. All these are characterisctics of a monopoly except,

a. There is one seller of the product

b. Has few substitutes

c. Controls a large share of the market

d. Controls a small share of the market

22. Industries with high barriers to entry

a. Pushes profits to normal returns

b. increases the likelihood of firms entering the industry

c. help firms sustain profits

d. increases the number of competitors

14. How does Ebay differ from an economist's view of a perfect competitve market?

a. Ebay has few buyers whereas perfect competitve industry assumes many buyers

b. Ebay has few sellers whereas perfect competitve industry assumes many sellers

c. There is limited information in ebay whereas perfect competitive industry assumes full information for both buyers and sellers

d. There is no difference between these two markets

26. Low cost strategies are usually found in industries where

a. Products are not particularly differentiated

b. Price competion tends to be fierce

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

Cigarettes - Price Elasticity of demand = - 0.67

A. Cigarettes

B. Alcohol

C. Sodas

D. None of the above

2. The demand for insulin will be ______________ than the demand for a Caribbean cruise in general

a. More elastic

b. More inelastic

c. Less elastic

d. Less inelastic

1. Which of the following statements about oligopolies is not correct?

a.		Oligopolistic firms always charge the monopoly price.
b.		Oligopolistic firms are interdependent in a way that firms in perfect competition are not.
c.		An oligopolistic market has only a few sellers.
d.		The actions of any one seller can have a large impact on the profits of all other sellers.

2. Which is true of an oligopoly market that reaches a Nash equilibrium?

a.		The firms will not have behaved as profit maximizers.
b.		A firm will have chosen its best strategy, given the strategies chosen by other firms in the market.
c.		A firm will not take into account the strategies of competing firms.
d.		The market price will be different for each firm.

3. In game theory, what is a dominant strategy?

a.		the best strategy for a player to follow, regardless of the what strategies other players use
b.		a strategy that makes every player better off
c.		a strategy that must appear in every game
d.		the best strategy for a player to follow only if other players are cooperative

4. Which of the following situations produces the largest profits for oligopolists?

a.		The firms reach a Nash equilibrium.
b.		The firms combine to produce the monopoly output level.
c.		The firms set prices equal to marginal cost.
d.		The firms produce a quantity of output that lies between the competitive outcome and the monopoly outcome.

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