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if a monopolistic firm is producing where its marginal revenue is less than its marginal cost, then the firm
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should produce less outputs to increase profit or reduce losses
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achieving economic efficiency that reduces the number of resources used but increases the number of socially optimal outputs requires a triple equality. What are the three components that must be equal?
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price, marginal cost, minimum average total cost
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in the long run, if a monopolistically competitive firm is earning normal profits (breaking even), then it should
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not exit the industry because both explicit and implicit costs are covered
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monopolistically competitive firms are not productively efficient because
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output is less than society's optimal level because a producer's average total cost per unit is not at its lowest possible cost
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in long run monopolistic competitive firms,
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will just break even and make no economic profit
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productive efficiency in monopolistically competitive markets does not occur in the long run because firms set the price
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on the demandcurve where MR=MC to maximize economic profit, making output less than optimal from society's perspective
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economic efficiency occurs when firms produce
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where P=MC=minimum ATC
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