ECON3000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Economic Rent, Product Differentiation, Diminishing Returns

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Microeconomics- the study of how households and firms make decisions and how they interact in markets through the use of the market mechanism. The market mechanism is the technical name given to the way in which consumers and producers interact to determine what price a good or service will be exchanged for, and how many times that exchange will take place. Competitive market is a term used to describe a market in which there are so many buyers and so many sellers that each has a small impact on the market price. Each seller has limited control over the price as other sellers are offering similar products. When a key resource is owned by a single firm. A market is a group of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service. The buyers as a group determine the demand for the product and the sellers as a group determine the supply of the product.

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1. Characteristics of competitive markets

The model of competitive markets relies on these three core assumptions:

1.	There must be many buyers and sellers a few players can't dominate the market.
2.	Firms must produce identical products buyers must regard all sellers' products as equivalent.
3.	Firms and resources must be fully mobile, allowing free entry into and exit from the industry.

The first two conditions imply that all consumers and firms are price takers. While the third is not necessary for price-taking behavior, assume for this problem that a market cannot maintain competition in the long run without free entry.

Identify whether or not each of the following scenarios describes a competitive market, along with the correct explanation of why or why not.

Scenario	Competitive?
The government has granted the U.S. Postal Service the exclusive right to deliver mail.	________________
Several stores in the mall sell hooded sweatshirts. Each store's sweatshirts reflect the style of that particular store. Additionally, some makers use higher-quality cotton than others, which is reflected in the apparel's prices.
Two taxi companies serve most of the market in a big city. Consumers don't care about which taxi company they take if they decide it's worth taking a taxi, they flag down the nearest one.	_________________
There are dozens of pasta producers that sell pasta to hundreds of Italian restaurants nationwide. The restaurant owners buy from the cheapest pasta producer available to

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1. Characteristics of competitive markets

The model of competitive markets relies on these three core assumptions:

1.	There must be many buyers and sellers a few players can't dominate the market.
2.	Firms must produce an identical product buyer must regard all sellers' products as equivalent.
3.	Firms and resources must be fully mobile, allowing for free entry into and exit from the industry.

The first two conditions imply that all consumers and firms are price takers. While the third is not necessary for price-taking behaviour, assume for this problem that a market cannot maintain competition in the long run without free entry.

Identify whether or not each of the following scenarios describes a competitive market, along with the correct explanation of why or why not.

Is the scenario	Competitive?
Dozens of companies produce plain white socks. Consumers regard plain white socks as identical and don't care who manufactures their socks.
In a major metropolitan area, one chain of coffee shops has gained a large market share because customers feel its coffee tastes better than that of its competitors.
Scholastik Inc. owns the U.S. copyright to a popular book series. It is the only company with the legal right to publish books in the series in the United States.
In a small town, there are two providers of broadband Internet access: a cable company and the phone company. The Internet access offered by both providers is of the same speed.

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1. In the formula for Bayes theorem if the w-probability is greater than the zero than the a-probably is less than the b-probability

2. posted offer markets with at least two sellers will generate prices that remain a little above prices from double auction markets

3. running the price clock in a dutch auction once will produce higher observed prices compared to running the clock twice

4. if losers pay winners in a sealed bid auction then they will eventually be willing to bid up to 75 percent more than the winning prize

5. with only one seller in a posted offer market prices willl tend to move upward toward the monopoly price

6. adjusting the concentration of sweet versus sour enabled rats to have a large negative income effect for sour water

7. a sales tax on large luxury boats will impact the buyers more than the sellers of these boats causing the buyers to pay more than half the cost of the sales tax

8. if each seller knew all of the sellers unit costs and the buyers knew all of the buyers unit values a buyer or seller would be able to calculate the competitive equilibrium price before an experiment began

9. suppose your income taxes rise only on incomes over 250,000 annualkly then your after tax income will be unafftected if your annual income is 100,000

Short Essay Questions

1. Recall the loser pay winner auction experiment done in class.

a. Discuss how these experiments explain why the bidder changed their minds toward wanting to bid well above the value of the prize, even though they refused to do so at the beginning

b. Discuss how the experiment explains why George Bush and many citizens changed their minds about a

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