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Price (demand) exceeds marginal revenue for the imperfectly competitive firm because
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to sell more the imperfectly competitive firms must lower its price
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Price (demand) exceeds marginal revenue for the imperfectly competitive firm because
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to sell more the imperfectly competitive firms must lower its price
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assume that prescott pharmaceuticals, which holds patents on vaxadrin, vaxadrine, and vaxadrone is an unregulated monopolist. its profit-maximizing quantity will always be ___
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where MR is positive
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Avogadro sells avocados in a perfectly competitive industry while purchasing his orchard equipment from Monoglom Hardware Conglomerate (MHC), the only orchard equipment supplier in town. Coincidentally, both Avogadro and MHC face identical demand and cost curves. Compared to Avogadro, MHC's price and output will be what
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price: higher, output: lower
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if the marginal cost curve of a monopolist shifts up, which of the following will occur to the monopolist's price and output?
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increase, decrease
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What is the bets explanation for why monopolists don't roduce the allocatively efficient quantity but perfectly competitive firms do
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charges a price higher than marginal cost, but a perfectly competitive firm's price equals marginal cost
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Given the profit maximizing monopolist above, the profit maximizing quantity is __ and the price is
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L, B
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Calculate the deadweight loss for the profit maxiziming monopolist A=17, B=10, etc
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14
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Calculate total cost for the profit maximizing monopolist
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140
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Calculate the total revenue for the profit maximizing monopolist
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136
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Calculate profit for the profit maximizing monopolist
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36
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What would the conusmer surplus be if the monopolist could perfectly price discriminate
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0
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What would the monopolist price be if they could perfectly price discriminate P1=4
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14
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if this unregulated monopolist does not price discriminate, what would the revenue be
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140
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which of the following are true about profit maximizing monopolies
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I and III
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which of the following is true of a natural monopoly
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output increase, long run ATC decreases
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if a lump-sum tax is imposed on a monopolistic competitive firm, which of the following will happen to the P and Q sold in the market
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P and Q will remain unchanged
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Which of the following correclty describes economic profits and allocative efficiency for a firm in monopolistic competition in long-run equilibrium
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Normal profit and allocatively inefficient
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What happens when firms exit an industry with monopolistic competition
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Demand curve increases
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McCromwell's golden arcs
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price = ATC and is greater than marginal cost
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Which of the choices below best characterizes an oligopolistic market
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Few competing sellers with similar products and high barriers to entry
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Not a characteristic of oligopoly
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P=MC
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Which of the following is true of oligopolies
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I and IV. strategic decisions neither allocatively nor productively efficient
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Two competing guitar
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Bender: cheat, Jibson: not cheat
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Cromie Corp and Peterson Incorporated
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470
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Given the natural monopoly depicted below, the fiar return price would be
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18 (ATC=P)
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Given the natural monopoly depicted below, the socially optimal price would be
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7 (P=MC)
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Firms in imperfectly competitive industries choose to produce on the ___ range of it's demand curve because consumers are ____ sensitive to changes. Total revenue _____ as a result
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elastic, more, increases