01:220:102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Monopolistic Competition, Marginal Revenue, Demand Curve

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Differentiated products; gives the firm the ability to set their own price: each producer some limited market power. Free entry and exit in the long run. Producers compete for the same market, so entry by more producers reduces the quantity each existing producer sells at any given price. The firm in panel (a) can be profitable for some output quantities: the quantities for which its average total cost curve, atc, lies below its demand curve, dp. The profit-maximizing output quantity is qp, the output at which marginal revenue, mrp, is equal to marginal cost, mc. The firm charges price pp and earns a profit, represented by the area of the green-shaded rectangle. The firm in panel (b), however, can never be profitable because its average total cost curve lies above its demand curve, du, for every output quantity. The best that it can do if it produces at all is to produce quantity qu and charge price pu.

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If I were to open a business, I would choose the monopolistic competitive market.

Under monopolistic competition, with low barriers to entry and low capital requirements, firms are free to enter into or exit from the industry at any time. In addition, in monopolistic competition, large numbers of sellers offer closely related but not homogeneous products. This is the reason why each firm has a limited share of the market and has limited control over the market price. Thus, changes in one firmâs output have only a slight impact on market price or it also means that firms in monopolistic competition are price setters rather than price takers. In the short run, firms can make excess economic profits. However, as barriers to entry are low, other firms have an incentive to enter the market, increasing the competition, until overall economic profit is zero.

In order to yield the greatest profit, a firm engaged in monopolistic competition will focus on product quality, location, service, and advertising, since the major tool of competition is product differentiation. For example, if I opened a restaurant, the restaurant would have a menu with different dishes and different prices to other restaurants nearby and the prices of the dishes also would depend on its location, the food ingredients, the food quality, and the speed of service. With the purpose of gaining profit for the restaurant, I would try to be dynamically efficient, innovative and develop new ways to attract and retain local custom as well as maintain cost efficiency, which could keep the cost below the average profit.

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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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