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A market in which there are many firms each selling differentiated products is most likely a ___ market.
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Monopolistically competitive.
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In general, firms in a cartel:
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agree to charge the price the monopolist would charge.
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Price discrimination is related to elasticity because:
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the firm can increase revenues by charging customers with elastic demands lower prices and charging customers with inelastic demands higher prices.
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When oligopolists collude the results are generally
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smaller output and higher price
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In maximizing profits, a monopolist will charge a price that is
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greater than marginal cost
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Restaurants, car dealerships, clothing stores, and music stores are examples of industries in which firms differentiate their products by offering them at more locations. This is an example of a ___ market.
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Monopolistically competitive.
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The economic inefficiency of a monopolist can be measured by
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the deadweight loss
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price discrimination is when a firm charges:
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different prices for the same goods to different consumers.
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A monopolistically competitive firm is producing at an output level in the short run where average total cost is $3.50, price is $3.00, marginal revenue is $1.50 and marginal cost is $1.50. This firm is operating
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With an economic loss in the short run.
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A benefit to consumers of monopolistically competitive markets is that:
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consumers have a variety of products from which to choose
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if short- run economic profits are greater than zero for firms in a monopolically competitive market, in the long-run we expect:
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competing firms to enter the market and sell similar products, competing profits away.
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The firms with any market power marginal revenue curve is
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downward sloping and twice as steep as demand
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which of the following is an assumption of the theory of oligopoly?
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firms produce and sell either homogeneous or differentiated products.
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In what industry structure is the mutual interdependence of the firms an important feature?
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Oligopoly
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monopolistically competitive firms differentiate their products by:
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all of the above
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which of the following conditions would prevent price discrimination?
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the ability to prevent low-price customers from reselling to high-price customers.
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What are its total profits if the senior discount police of $7 senior price and a $10 non-senior price?
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$4,060
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The above monopolist would maximize its profit by charging a price of:
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$35
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The dead weight loss associated with the monopoly would be represented by the area:
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DADE