ECON FINAL MC HELP
The monopolist determines the price and quantity combination that maximizes short-run profits by
A. finding the quantity at which marginal cost and marginal revenue are equal and then using the demand curve to find price.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of monopolistic competition?
Marginal cost pricing in the long run
All firms in a perfect competition industry
produce identical products
Which of the following does NOT help explain why oligopolies exist?
product homogeneity
The demand curve for the product of a perfectly competitive firm's demand curve indicates that if the firm
raises its price, sales will fall to zero
Monopolistic competition is characterized by
relative ease of entry into the market
In general, the demand for the product of a monopolistic competitor is
relatively elastic.
Monopolistic competition means
a large number of firms producing differentiated products.
A monopolist's marginal revenue curve is
below the firm's demand curve.
Products can be differentiated...
by location and by brand name
Which of the following products is most likely to be sold in a monopolistically competitive market?
fast food
Firms with __________ will not change prices very often
high menu costs
All of the following are assumptions of monopolistic competition EXCEPT
homogeneous product
For a firm in a perfectly competitive industry, the demand curve for its own product is
horizontal
A merger between firms that are in the same industry is called a
horizontal merger
Surge pricing is when firms _____ price due to __________.
increase; an increase in demand
Clothing retailers have faced greater competition in recent years as more firms have entered the clothing market. Some of the competition has come from foreign competitors, but much of it is domestic competition. As a result there is much competition in markets for many types of clothing and
individual buyers and sellers cannot affect the market price because it is determined by the market forces of demand and supply
The distinguishing of products by brand name, color, and other attributes
is known as product differentiation
. Entry into a monopolistically competitive industry
is relatively easy
Price discrimination is more likely in the case of services than in the case of goods because
it is more difficult to resell services
A monopoly will look for opportunities to price discriminate because the practice
leads to greater profits
Perfect competition is characterized by
many buyers and sellers
Which of the following is NOT a common characteristic of oligopoly?
marginal cost pricing.
When price and marginal cost are equal for a perfectly competitive firm, the firm is
maximizing economic profit
A market situation in which a large number of firms produce similar but not identical products is
monopolistic competition
Since the firm in the above figure is operating in a monopolistically competitive industry, in the long run we can expect to see
more firms entering the industry until economic profits are zero
To sell more units, a monopolist
moves down its demand curve to a lower price that will increase quantity demand
Monopoly producers face
no competitive producers of the same product.
The demand curve for the product of a perfectly competitive firm is
perfectly elastic
Jane is on Facebook only because her friends are. This is
positive market feedback
To be able to engage in profit-maximizing price searching, a monopoly firm must be able to
prevent the entry of other firms into the market for its product
Price discrimination is the
selling of a given product at more than one price when the price difference is unrelated to cost differences.
Which of the following is a characteristic of oligopoly?
strategic dependence
Which of the following is NOT a cause for an oligopoly to exist?
structural dependence
The major similarity between monopolistic competition and perfect competition is
that both assume many buyers and sellers
Product compatibility is
the capability of a product sold by one firm to function together with another firm's complementary product
A profit-maximizing monopolist earns an economic loss whenever
the demand curve lies completely below the ATC curve.
If a monopolist produces to a point at which marginal revenue is less than marginal cost then
the incremental cost of producing the last unit exceeds the incremental revenue.
The demand for the product of a monopolistically competitive firm is highly elastic when
there are a lot of close substitutes
Firms in a monopolistically competitive market will advertise because
they want to differentiate their products.
. Joe's hotdog stand merges with a company that supplies the condiments to Joe's. This is an example of
vertical merger
A pure monopolist is selling 7 units at a price of $12. If the marginal revenue of the 8th unit is $4, then the price of the 8th unit is
$11
. Suppose an industry has total sales of $25 million per year. The two largest firms have sales of $6 million each, the third largest firm has sales of $2 million, and the fourth largest firm has sales of $1 million. The four-firm concentration ratio for this industry is
60 percent
Which of the following statements about concentration ratios is correct?
A high concentration ratio suggests that the industry is characterized by strategic dependence.
By reducing the product compatibility of iPod, Apple can lower the price elasticities of demand for
Apple products that are complementary to the iPod.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a perfectly competitive industry?
Economic profits must be positive in the short run
. Which of the following is NOT a necessary condition for price discrimination?
Having a constant marginal cost
Considering the relevant market structures, which is an INCORRECT statement?
In any market situation, the number of firms is not very important.
If a firm is an oligopolist, which is NOT true?
It can sell all the units it wants at the going market price.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a perfectly competitive market?
It is difficult for a firm to enter or leave the market.
Which of the following is true of a perfectly competitive firm and a monopoly in the long run?
MR = MC
For a monopoly earning positive economic profits at the profit-maximizing output level, all of the following are true EXCEPT
P = MR.
Which of the following statements about the elasticity of demand for a monopolist is TRUE?
Since every good has some substitute, even if imperfect, the demand for a good produced by a monopolist will not have zero price elasticity
Which of the following statements is correct about the demand curve of the perfectly competitive industry?
The market demand curve of the perfectly competitive industry is downward sloping while the demand curve facing an individual firm is horizontal
Which of the following is NOT a barrier to entry that would allow a monopolist to keep potential competitors out of its market?
The market price of the product is too high
What does it mean when the products sold by the firms in an industry are homogeneous?
The product sold by one firm is a perfect substitute of the product sold by another firm in the same industry.
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
The profit-maximizing monopolist will always produce only along the inelastic portion of the demand curve, whereas equilibrium in a perfectly competitive industry always occurs along the elastic portion of the demand curve.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of perfect competition?
There are substantial barriers to entry into the industry.
Over the past several decades, U.S. firms have faced more competition from overseas firms. Does this have any impact on the market power of U.S. oligopoly firms?
Yes, competition from overseas firms can substantially limit domestic firms' market power.
A situation where a consumer's willingness to use an item depends on how many others use it is
a network effect
A monopolist is defined as
a single supplier of a good or service for which there is no close substitute.
. A monopolistic competitor behaving in a profit-maximizing way will
advertise to the point where the additional revenue from one more dollar of advertising just equals the extra dollar cost of advertising
When managers in oligopolistic firms make decisions that affect output or price, they must
anticipate the reactions of their rivals and plan accordingly
A price taker is a firm that
cannot influence the market price
The measurement of industry concentration which calculates the percentage of all sales contributed by a specific number of leading firms is called the
concentration ratio
The demand curve for a perfectly competitive industry is
downward sloping
The most common reason for the existence of oligopolies is
economies of scale
An industry battle between incompatible product formats can occur if competing firms selling compatible products
fail to take into account network effects
