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which of the following characteristics determine whether or not a firm will earn long run economic profit?
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C. Barriers to entry
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A single price monopolist marginal revenue is?
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B. less than its price
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Monopolies are in efficient compared to a perfectly competitive firms because monopolies
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D. Charge a price greater than marginal cost
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If the monopolist chooses to maximize total revenue rather than total profit, which combination of price and output will be chosen
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C. P3, Q3
Bc MR at 0
Bc MR at 0
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If a perfectly competitive Industry were monopolized without any changes in cost conditions, the price and quantity
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P increase, Q decrease
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Generally, monopolies are considered inefficient because they
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lead to an under allocation of resources in the affected market
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The economic profit maximization monopolistic is given by the area
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RULI
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The price of an airline ticket is typically lower if the traveler buys the tickets several weeks before departure date rather than on the day of departure. This pricing strategy based on assumes that
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Traveler demand becomes less elastic as a departure date approaches
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Price discrimination occurs when
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Differences in a products price do not reflect differences in costs of production
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Which of the following is necessary for a firm to practice price discrimination
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the firm can prevent resale of its goods.
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If the monopolist could engage in perfect price discrimination, the monopolist total output and price charge for the last unit of output sold would be
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Q2, P3
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Which of the following enables a seller to capture the entry surplus in a market
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Perfect price discrimination
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Which of the following statements correctly identifies a difference between perfect and monopolistic competition
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In perfect competition all products are exactly the same but in monopolistic competition there are slightly different products
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Industry consist of 100 small firms, and the largest firm accounts for only 2% of sales. The industry described
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Monopolistic competitive firms
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All of the following characterize book perfectly competitive in monopolistic except
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Firms can affect the selling price of their product
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Over the past five years, 50 new restaurants have opened, 30 closed currently there are 110
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C. Monopolistic, low barries to entry, zero LR profit
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A well known fast food franchise substantially increases the price of its hamburgers and loses only some of its customers. Why has a franchise not lost all customers
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Hamburgers are differentiated
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Which of the following will tend to make the demand for a product more elastic
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New firms which produce similar products enter the industry.
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Interdependence among firms is a characteristic primarily associated
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Oligopoly
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Which of the following best explains why it is difficult to maintain lasting collusive agreement
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Each firm realizes that it's profits would increase if it were the only firm to violate the collusive agreement by increasing its production slightly
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Game theory is a useful model to explain behavior of firms in the market when firms are
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interdependent
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Pam and tara run to competing lemonade stands. According to the payoff matrix
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Pam high price, Tara low price
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If Locke chooses to Charge low price, the best course of action for star would be to charge the?
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Low price and earn a profit of 40