Category: Monopoly

A. Monopolies are inefficient
B. Monopoly profits ac as an incentive for innovation
C. Monopolies are alocatively efficient
D. Monopolies are productively efficient

A. higher prices and lower output
B. higher prices and higher output
C. lower prices and lower output
D. lower prices and higher output

A. Perfect price discrimination generates a deadweight loss
B. Price discrimination can raise economic welfare.
C. price discrimination requires that seller be able to separate buyers according to their willingness to pay.
D. Price discrimination increases a monopolist’s profits.
E. For a monopolist to engage in price discrimination buyers must be unable to engage in arbitrage.

A. does not exist
B. is the marginal cost curve above average variable cost?
C. is the marginal cost curve above average total cost
D. is the upward-sloping portion of the average total cost curve
E. The upward-sloping portion of the average variable cost

A. There are many buyers and sellers
B. There is one main buyer
C. There is one main seller
D. The actions of one firm do not affect the market price and quantity

A. below the price because the price effect outweighs the output effect
B. above the price because the output effect outweighs the price effect
C. above the price because the price effect outweighs the output effect
D. below the price because the output effect outweighs the price effect

A. underproduction of the good
B. the monopoly’s profits
C. the monopoly’s losses
D. overproduction of the good

A. tends to be inefficient.
B. usually lowers the cost of production dramatically.
C. creates synergies between the newly acquired firm and other government-owned companies.
D. does none of the things described in these answers

A. Bans monopolies
B. Fines all monopolies
C. Prevents firms acquiring more than 25% of the market
D. Has the right to investigate monopolies and will assess each one on its own merits

A. In competitive markets, price equals marginal cost, in monopolized markets price exceeds marginal cost.
B. In competitive markets price equals marginal cost, in monopolized markets price equals marginal cost
C. In competitive markets price exceeds marginal cost, in monopolized markets price exceeds marginal cost
D. In competitive markets price exceeds marginal cost in monopolized markets price equals marginal cost