ECON 1B03 Chapter 1: Lecture 3
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Third degree price discrimination: (ordinary price discrimination) firms can distinguish between different markets for its good. And then charge different prices in each market. Much easier to do in practice than perfect price discrimination and we see it all the time. Examples of price discrimination movie tickets: bus fares, discount coupons, financial aid, quantity discounts, ladies" nights at bars. If a firm segments it"s market, it will charge a higher price in the market segment with more inelastic demand. Consumers are less flexible and less able to shop around and look for alternatives. Imperfect competition: refers to market structures to those market structures that fall between perfect competition and pure monopoly. Product differentiation: each firms product is at least slightly different from another firms. So each firm faces a downward sloping demand curve, like a monopolist. free entry and exit (no barriers to entry) firms are price setters to some degree.
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Consider the following market demand schedule and total costs for a monopoly.
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a) Fill in the blanks.
b) How is the relationship between price and MR different between monopolistic and perfectly competitive markets?
c) Would the demand curve facing a monopolistic competitive market be more or less elastic than the demand curve facing a monopolist, why? Do firms in a monopolistically competitive market make long-run economic profits, why or why not?