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A pure monopoly exists when a single firm is the sole producer of a product for which there are no close ___.
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substitutes
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Which of the following are the main characteristics of a pure monopoly?
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Blocked entry for other firms
Presence of a single seller
Control over the price
Unavailability of close
substitutes for its products
Presence of a single seller
Control over the price
Unavailability of close
substitutes for its products
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The firm and ______ are synonymous in pure monopoly.
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the industry
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Which of the following describes what "no close substitutes" means as it relates to consumers and a pure monopoly?
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A consumer must either buy the monopolized product or do without it entirely.
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How does a monopolist change the price of its product?
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By changing the quantity of the product it produces.
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Which of the following exists when a single firm is the sole producer of a product for which there are no close substitutes?
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Pure monopoly
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____________ utilities are government owned or regulated.
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Public
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The main characteristics of a pure __________ are a single seller, no close substitutes, a price maker, blocked entry, and non-price competition.
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monopoly
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Which of the following two terms are synonymous in a pure monopoly?
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firm and industry
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The strongest barriers to entry effectively block all ______.
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potential competition
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Which characteristic of pure monopoly requires a consumer to buy the monopolized product or do without it entirely?
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No close substitutes
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A firm's long-run average total costs may decline over a wide range of output due to _________ of scale.
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economies
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Which of the following are reasons that a monopolist is considered a price maker?
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The monopolist exerts control over the price.
The monopolist controls the total quantity supplied.
The monopolist controls the total quantity supplied.
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What term is used to describe declining average total costs with added firm size?
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Economies of scale
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Which of the following are characteristics of public utilities?
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Government owned or regulated
Monopolies or near monopolies
Monopolies or near monopolies
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Which of the following can be a cause of extensive economies of scale?
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Modern technology
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Monopolists use economies of scale to block the entry of new firms into an industry by reducing ______ so that other firms cannot compete.
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prices
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What is the term for factors that prohibit firms from entering an industry?
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Barriers to entry
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______ create(s) legal barriers to entry.
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Government
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How do economies of scale affect long-run average total costs for a firm?
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Long-run average total costs decline over a wide range of output.
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Two legal ________ to entry are patents and licenses.
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barriers
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Economies of scale refer to ______ average total costs with added firm size.
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declining
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The exclusive right of an inventor to use, or to allow another to use, her or his invention is called:
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a patent
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Modern technology can be a cause of extensive ______.
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economies of scale
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Monopolists use economies of scale to block the entry of new firms into an industry by ______.
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lowering prices so that another firm cannot compete
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Government creates ________ barriers to entry.
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legal
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Why does an inventor need to have her or his invention protected from rivals?
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Rivals will use the invention without having shared in the effort and expense of developing it.
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What are the two legal barriers to entry created by the government?
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Patents
Licenses
Licenses
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_________and development leads to most patentable inventions and products.
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research
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A _________ is the exclusive right of an inventor to use, or allow another to use, her or his invention.
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patent
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______ of essential property is a barrier to entry into an industry.
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Control
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Slashing prices is an example of an entry barrier created by a(n) _________.
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monopoly
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Patents, economies of scale, and resource ownership are all assumptions of the pure ________ model.
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monopoly
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Which of the following is considered a barrier to entry protecting an inventor from its rivals?
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patents
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What leads to most patentable inventions and products?
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Research and development
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Marginal revenue is the change in ______ revenue associated with a single-unit change in output.
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total
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It is difficult to start up a major league sports team because existing professional teams have contracts with the best players and long-term leases on stadiums. Which barrier to entry does this illustrate?
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Control of a key resource
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Which of the following are entry barriers created by monopolists?
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Price reductions
Increased advertising
Increased advertising
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With a fixed downward sloping demand curve, the pure monopolist can only increase sales by charging a ______ price.
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lower
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Which of the following are assumptions made in the model of pure monopoly?
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The firm is a single-price monopolist and charges the same price for all units of output.
Patents, economies of scale, and resource ownership secure the firm's monopoly.
No unit of government regulates the firm.
Patents, economies of scale, and resource ownership secure the firm's monopoly.
No unit of government regulates the firm.
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Marginal revenue is less than price at every unit of output because the monopolist
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could have sold these prior units at a higher price if it had not produced and sold the extra output.
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Firms with downward-sloping product demand curves are called price __________.
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maker
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The change in total revenue associated with a one-unit change in output is called ______ revenue.
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marginal
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A monopolist will never choose a price-quantity combination where price reductions cause:
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a decrease in total revenue
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With a fixed downward-sloping demand curve, how can a monopolist increase sales?
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By charging a lower price
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A firm's manager is given the following information: To sell 4 units of output, a price of $132 must be charged; this level of output reflects marginal revenue of $102 and marginal costs of $60. If the firm wants to sell 5 units of output, a price of $122 must be charged; this reflects marginal revenue of $82 and marginal costs of $70. To sell 6 units of output, a price of $112 must be charged; at this level of output, marginal revenue will be $62 and marginal costs $80. What should the manager do?
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Produce 5 units of output and charge $122.
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Patents, economies of scale, and resource ownership are all assumptions of the pure _________ model.
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monopoly
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If producing is preferable to shutting down, a profit-seeking monopolist will produce up to the output at which _______.
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MR = MC
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Price makers are firms with:
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downward-sloping demand curves
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A monopolist does not have a supply curve because:
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-it does not equate price with marginal cost
-there is no single, unique price associated with each level of output
-there is no single, unique price associated with each level of output
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The monopolist seeks maximum ________ profit, not maximum unit profit.
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total
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The monopolist wants a price-quantity combination to fall in the _____ section of its demand curve, where a lower price means _____ total revenue.
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elastic; greater
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How much will a profit-seeking monopolist produce if producing is preferable to shutting down?
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Up to the output at which marginal revenue equals marginal cost
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Which of the following explains why a pure monopolist is able to maintain an economic profit in the long run?
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There are no new entrants to increase supply, drive down price, and eliminate profit.
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Which of the following does the monopolist not have?
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A supply curve
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Why might a monopolist accept a less-than-maximum per-unit profit?
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Additional sales more than compensate for the lower profit per unit.
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The monopolist's level of output is not at the minimum point of ______, meaning it will not be productively efficient.
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average total cost
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Monopoly yields neither ___________ efficiency nor allocative efficiency.
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productive
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Because a monopoly is a price maker and prices its products in the elastic portion of the demand curve, its output is less than that required to achieve minimum average total cost. In addition, the monopoly's price will exceed its marginal cost at this level of output. Monopoly therefore creates
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an efficiency loss.
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A(n) ______ is able to maintain an economic profit in the long run because there are no new entrants to increase supply, drive down price, and eliminate economic profit.
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monopoly
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A monopolist does not achieve productive efficiency because it produces a level of output that does not correspond to the minimum point _______ ________ of the cost curve.
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average; total
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At a pure monopolist's profit-maximizing output (Qm), its ________ exceeds marginal cost, resulting in allocative inefficiency.
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price
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Monopoly yields neither productive nor ________ efficiency.
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allocative
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How does a monopoly generally transfer income?
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From consumers to the owners of the monopoly
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When productive efficiency and allocative efficiency are not achieved in a market, it is called a(n) ______.
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efficiency loss
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Which statement is true about costs for purely competitive and monopolistic producers?
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Costs for purely competitive and monopolistic producers may not be the same.
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A natural monopoly's economies of scale refers to one firm's ability to achieve the lowest long-run average total cost, also known as
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the minimum efficient scale at a high level of output.
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Simultaneous __________ is a product's ability to satisfy a large number of consumers at the same time.
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consumption
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At the profit-maximizing output (Qm), a monopolist's ______ is higher than marginal cost; therefore, a monopolist has allocative inefficiency.
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price (Pm)
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Network effects may drive a market toward _________ because consumers tend to choose standard products that everyone else is using.
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monopoly
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When a monopolist charges a higher price than a purely competitive firm would, the monopolist essentially ______.
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levies a "private tax" on consumers
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Which are reasons that costs differ between a purely competitive firm and a pure monopoly?
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The "very long run" perspective
Monopoly-preserving expenditures
Monopoly-preserving expenditures
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A ________ _________may occur when only a single firm might be able to achieve the lowest long-run average total cost.
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natural monopoly
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What is the term used to refer to a product's ability to satisfy a large number of consumers at the same time?
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Simultaneous consumption
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X-inefficiency occurs when a firm operates at a cost that is (higher/lower) than the lowest cost for a particular level of output.
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higher
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__________ effects exist if the value of a product to each user increases as the total number of users increase.
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network
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Which of the following can cause X-inefficiency?
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Maintaining a poorly motivated work force
Avoiding business risk
Hiring incompetent relatives
Avoiding business risk
Hiring incompetent relatives
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Which of the following add nothing to the firm's output, but increase the firm's costs?
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Rent-seeking expenditures
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When a firm produces a specific output level at a higher cost than the necessary cost for that level of output, it is called ______.
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X-inefficiency
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The government broke up Standard Oil in 1911 due to its breach of ________(one word) laws.
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antitrust
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Hiring incompetent relatives and poor supervision of workers can result in ______.
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X-inefficiency
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Why do costs differ between a purely competitive firm and a pure monopoly?
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A factor called "X-inefficiency"
Economies of scale
Economies of scale
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What may occur when only a single firm can achieve the economies of scale necessary to compete in an industry?
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Natural monopoly
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Which of the following are conditions necessary for price discrimination?
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Market segregation
No resale
Monopoly power
No resale
Monopoly power
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If a firm is found guilty of achieving a monopoly through anticompetitive actions, then which of the following may occur?
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The firm may be expressly prohibited from engaging in certain business activities.
The firm may be broken into two or more competing firms.
The firm may be broken into two or more competing firms.
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As an example of price discrimination, airlines charge higher fares to business travelers whose demand for travel is _________ and offer lower, more restricted fares to vacationers and others with more __________ demand.
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inelastic; elastic
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The practice of charging different prices to different buyers for a specific product is known as price ___________.
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discrimination
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True or false: Price discrimination is not practiced very often in the US economy.
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false
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Market segregation must exist in order for a monopolist to ______.
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price discriminate
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With a natural monopoly the demand curve intersects the long-run average total cost curve where the long-run average total cost curve is still _______.
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declining
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The government broke up Standard Oil in 1911 due to its breach of _______ (one word) laws.
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antitrust
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Baseball ticket sellers charge a different price for adults and children. Ballpark concession stands charge the same prices for products sold to any customer. The baseball ticket sellers are providing a successful example of
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price discrimination.
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What is the term used to refer to charging different prices to different buyers of a specific product?
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Price discrimination
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If the objective of government is to achieve allocative efficiency, what kind of price should government establish for the monopolist?
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One that is equal to its marginal cost.
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Price , _______ or charging different prices to different consumers, is widely practiced in the US economy.
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discrimination
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The demand curve intersects the natural monopolist's long-run average total cost curve at a point where long-run average total costs are still falling, due to ______.
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economies of scale
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Two solutions to the economic losses caused by socially optimal pricing are providing public_________ and condoning price discrimination.
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subsidy
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A firm can be expressly prohibited from engaging in certain business activities or can be broken into two or more competing firms when it
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is found guilty of monopoly abuse.
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