Consider two firms, 1 and 2 , operating in a monopolistic competitive market. The cost functions of the firms are: TC_(1)=20+20 Q and TC_(2)=80+80Q, respectively. Would it be rational for both firms to compete in the world market, given the market demand curve of Q=100-P, and they have to bear a trade cost of $30 per unit? Explain with the help of a diagram. please give answer with compleete steps and diagram.
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- Consider two price-setting oligopolies supplying consumers in a certain region of a country. Firm 1 employs many of the people living there and the local government subsidizes its operations. In all other respects, the firms are identical-they have the same constant marginal cost, MC = 4, and produce the same good. The demand function for Firm 1 is q1 = 600 - 50p1 - 20p2 and for Firm 2 is q2 = 600 - 50p2 - 20p1, where p1 is Firm 1's price and p2 is Firm 2's price. a. What are the Nash-Bertrand equilibrium prices and quantities without the subsidy? b. What are they if Firm 1 receives a per-unit subsidy of S = 1? Compare the two equilibria.Gamma and Zeta are the only two widget manufacturers in the world. Each firm has a cost function given by: C(q) = 10+20q + q^2, where q is number of widgets produced. The market demand for widgets is represented by the inverse demand equation: P = 200 - 2Q where Q = q1 + q2 is total output. Suppose that each firm maximizes its profits taking its rival's output as given (i.e. the firms behave as Cournot oligopolists). a) What will be the equilibrium quantity selected by each firm? What is the market price? What is the profit level for each firm? Equilibrium quantity for each firm__ price__ profit__ b) It occurs to the managers of Gamma and Zeta that they could do a lot better by colluding. If the two firms were to collude in a symmetric equilibrium, what would be the profit-maximizing choice of output for each firm? What is the industry price? What is the profit for each firm in this case? Equilibrium quantity for each firm__ price__ profit__ c) What minimum discount factor is required…There are only two driveway paving companies in a small town, Asphalt, Inc. and Blacktop Bros. The inverse demand curve for the services is ? = 2040 − 20?where quantity is measured in pave jobs per month and price, in dollars per job. The firms have an identical marginal cost of $200 per driveway. If the two firms collude, splitting the work and profits evenly, how many driveways will each firm pave, and at what price? How much profit will each firm make? Does Asphalt have an incentive to cheat by paving one more driveway each month? Show it numerically.
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- There are only two driveway paving companies in a small town, Asphalt, Inc. and Blacktop Bros. The inverse demand curve for paving services is ?= 2040 ―20? where quantity is measured in pave jobs per month and price is measured in dollars per job. Assume Asphalt, Inc. has a marginal cost of $100 per driveway and Blacktop Bros. has a marginal cost of $150. Answer the following questions: Determine each firm’s reaction curve and graph it. How many paving jobs will each firm produce in Cournot equilibrium? What will the market price of a pave job be? How much profit does each firm earn?Alpha and Gamma are the only two phone handset manufacturers in the world. Each firm has a cost function given by: C(q) = cq + q?, where q is number of phones produced and c=70. The market demand for phones is represented by the inverse demand equation: P = a - bQ where Q = q1 + q2 is total output, a=250 and b=1. Suppose that each firm maximizes its profits taking its rival's output as given (i.e. the firms behave as Cournot oligopolists). a) What will be the equilibrium quantity selected by each firm? What is the market price? What is the profit level for each firm? Equilibrium quantity for each firm , price , profit b) It occurs to the managers of Alpha and Gamma that they could do a lot better by colluding. If the two firms were to collude, what would be the profit-maximizing choice of output for each firm? What is the industry price? What is the profit for each firm in this case? Equilibrium quantity for each firm , price , profit c) What minimum discount factor is required for…Imagine any market divided by 2 Cournot oligopolists who have identical costs Marginal cost = Average cost = 200. About this market, ask yourself: a) If the demand curve for this market is given by Q = 1250 - 2.5P, where Q is the total quantity demanded in the market and P is the selling price, both given in units, what is the reaction curve of the oligopolists? b) What will be the quantity produced and the selling price of the oligopolists? c) A strategist considers that a good marketing campaign would be able to expand the Demand of this market to Q = 1,500 - 2.5P and that in this way, oligopolists could produce the same amount and make significantly greater profits. Such a campaign would generate a reduction in profits in the order of 70,000. Is it worth making this investment in marketing?
- Albert and Johny are the only sellers of Motorbikes in Ireland. The inverse market demand function for motorbikes is P(Y)= 200- 2Y . Both firms have the same total cost function: T(C)= 12Y and the same marginal cost: M(C)=12. Suppose now that the two firms decide to act like a single monopolist. What will the total quantity of Motorbikes sold in the market be and what will the equilibrium price be? Represent the profit maximisation problem on a graph and indicate the price and quantity at the equilibrium. Calculate the total profit made by the two firms when they act like a monopoly. Compare it with the total profit they were making in the Stackelberg oligopoly. For the two firms to be willing to agree to act as a monopoly, how should they split the quantity to produce between them? We assume that if they do not agree to act like a monopoly, then the market structure is the Stackelberg oligopoly studied above. We further assume that no money transfer is possible between the two…Additional Problem 3: Assume two companies (C and D) are Cournot duopolists that produce identical products. Demand for the products is given by the following linear demand function: ? = 600 − ?C − ?D where ?C and ?D are the quantities sold by the respective firms and P is the price. Total cost functions for the two companies are ??C= 25,000 +100?C 2 ??D = 20,000 + 125?D c. Determine the equilibrium price and quantities sold by each firm. d.Determine the profits for the market as well as eachfirm.Consider any market that has a demand curve given by: Qd = 240 - 2P. Where Qd is the total quantity demanded in the market, given in millions of units and P is the market price, calculated in monetary units. Imagine that there are 2 Cournot oligopolists operating in this market with Cmg = CVme = 15 and fixed monthly costs equal to 1,400. About this market, ask yourself: a) What is the profit of each of the oligopolists? b) Imagine that one of the companies managed to implement a process innovation capable of halving its Cmg and CVme, so that they would go from 15 to 7.5. This investment implies an additional monthly expense of $1,800. Discuss the statement: "If this situation occurs, the innovative company will not implement variable cost reduction, as the quantity supplied in the market will increase very little; prices will remain very close to what they are today and its profits will not increase"