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Advertising can impede economic efficiency when it:
 
a. increases entry barriers.
b. reduces brand loyalty.
c. enables firms to achieve substantial economies of scale.
d. increases consumer awareness of substitutes.
 
 

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1) A natural monopoly exists when:

a. A few firms collude to make one large firm

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

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3) In monopolistic competition:

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