ECON 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Average Variable Cost, Economic Equilibrium, Marginal Revenue

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23 Apr 2016

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ECON 1100

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A market is said to have a competitive structure when its firms have little or no market power. The more market power the firms have, the less competitive is the market structure. There are assumptions behind competitive markets/perfect competition (many producers & many consumers: each firm produces the same product (homogeneous, there are large numbers of firms/producers in each industry/sector (they are price takers) No single firm produces more than a small fraction of the industry"s output: there is a complete knowledge on the part of each seller/firm and buyer. Every seller and every consumer know the characteristics of the product and the market equilibrium price: there are no barriers for producers to exit the industry or enter the industry! No government regulations or other types of barriers. All wheat is similar to each other, similarity/homogeneous. All by assumption #2, they have to accept the market equilibrium price. Sector of services (accounting, hair salons, medical)

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1) A natural monopoly exists when:

a. A few firms collude to make one large firm

b. Firms enter the industry as a result of profit incentives

c. Economies of scale provide large cost advantages to having one firm produce the industry's output

d. Firms naturally maximize regardless of market structure

2) A(n) ____ is a single firm with ___, whereas a(n) ___ implies an industry with ____ firm(s) and ____ .

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

b. Oligopoly; no barriers to entry; monopoly; many; easy entry and exit

c. Monopoly; barriers to entry; monopolistic competition; many; easy entry and exit

d. Monopolistic competitor; barriers to entry; monopoly; one; barriers to entry

3) In monopolistic competition:

a. Each firm produces a product identical to that of every other firm in the industry

b. Firms are aware of their strategic interdependence

c. Firms earn large economic profits in the long run

d. Firms earn zero economic profits in the long run

4) A monopolistically competitive industry, such as corn snack chips, and a perfectly competitive industry, like wheat farming, are alike in that:

a. There are many firms in each industry

b. Firms in both types of industries produce similar but not identical products

c. Barriers to entry in both industries are large

d. Firms in both types of industries produce identical products

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The terms price maker, price setter, and price searcher are all meant to imply the same thing, which is

Select one:

a. firms operating in a perfectly competitive market have pricing power.

b. it is impossible for any firm to have pricing power.

c. a firm operating in any market but perfect competition that also determines the quantity it produces and the price at which it sells the products.

d. any firm can determine the price at which it sells a product, but no firm can determine the quantity it produces.

e. a price increase will likely drive every customer for the producer of this product to another product.

In monopoly,

Select one:

a. the number of firms is large.

b. there is ease of entry into the market and exit from the market.

c. the product has many good substitutes.

d. economic profits are zero in the long run.

e. None of these choices.

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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ECON 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Average Variable Cost, Economic Equilibrium, Marginal Revenue

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