Chapter 24: Q. 24.1LO (page 535)
Identify situations that can give rise to monopoly
Short Answer
As a result, there is no variation between firm's offering and market supply in an extremely pure monopoly.
Chapter 24: Q. 24.1LO (page 535)
Identify situations that can give rise to monopoly
As a result, there is no variation between firm's offering and market supply in an extremely pure monopoly.
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For each of the following examples, explain how and why a monopoly would try to price discriminate.
a. Air transport for businesspeople and tourists
b. Serving food on weekdays to businesspeople and retired people- (Hint: Which group has more flexibility during a weekday to adjust to a price change and, hence, a higher price elasticity of demand?
c. A theater that shows the same movie to Large families and to individuals and couples. (Hint: For which set of people will the overall expense of a movie be a larger part of their budget, \(s\) o that demand is relatively more elastic?)
Why do you suppose that the Marseilles drug dealer also seeks to prevent customers from reselling drugs to other buyers?
Look again at Figure 24-5. Suppose that Q2 is equal to 35 units of output per time period. If the vertical distance to point C is \(6 per unit and the vertical distance to point B is \)3 per unit, then by how much does producing the 35 th unit of output affect the firm's economic profits?
The marginal revenue curve of a monopoly crosses its marginal cost curve at per unit and an output of million units. The price that consumers are willing to pay for this output is per unit. If it produces this output, the firm's average total cost is per unit. What is the profit-maximizing (loss-minimizing) output? What are the firm's economic profits (or economic losses)?
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