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(E) Gmine's dominant strategy is to not cheat; Bmine's strategy is to cheat
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which of the following correctly describes the dominant strategy of each firm?
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(C) barriers to entry
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which of the following is a source of monopoly power?
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(A) price exceed marginal revenue
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which of the following is true for a monopolist at the profit-maximizing output level?
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(B) 50$
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If the firm produces 10 units of output, its economic profits will equal?
A 0
b 50
c 100
d 150
E 200
A 0
b 50
c 100
d 150
E 200
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(C) the firm would have to lower its price to sell more than 10 units
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which of the following is most likely to occur if the firm increases beyond 10 units?
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(C) RULI
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the economic profit of the profit-maximizing monopolist is given by the area
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(C) 0T Q3
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If this were a perfectly competitive industry with the same costs as shown on the graph equilibrium price and output would be which of the following
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(B) Price: increase Quantity: decrease
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if a perfectly competitive industry were monopolized without any changes in cost conditions, the price and quantity produced would change in which of the following ways?
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(B) the firm cannot affect the market price of its good
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which of the following statements is true for a perfectly competitive firm but not true for a monopoly?
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(B) produces too little output and sets a price above marginal costs
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Most economists argue that a monopoly is inefficient because it?
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(A) Long-run total cost decreases as output increases
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Within the range of market demand, which of the following is consistent with the conditions of a natural monopoly?
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(B) Elastic region of its demand curve
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A profit maximizing monopolists selects its output level in the?
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(C) Price: P3 Output: Q3
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if the monopolists chooses to maximize total revenue rather than total profit, it will choose revenue rather than total profit, it will choose which combination of price and output?
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(E) Price: increase Output: decrease
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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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(D) too little of a good and charges too high a price
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from the point of view of economic efficiency, a monopolist produces?
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(B) have a loss.
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Assume there is a monopolistically competitive firm in long-run equilibrium. If this firm were to realize productive efficiency, it would:
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(C) it has excess capacity and its output price exceeds its marginal cost, even though its long-run profit is zero
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Which of the following statements about a monopolistically competitive firm in long-run equilibrium is true?