1. What are some of the ways in which capital evercises influence over the State? (List 3-4 ways)

2. A public utilities regulator sets prices equal to average costs. As a result, the regulated natural monopoly will produce ______________. a. the allocatively efficient amount of output.b. less than the allocatively efficient amount of output.c. more than the allocatively efficient amount of output.d. either the allocatively efficient amount of output or more than that amount.e. either the allocatively efficient amount of output or less than that amount.

Ilia is driving home from work. She needs to buy gas and notices an Exxon-Mobil station on one side of the street and a Shell station on the other side of the street. Although run by different companies, the two stations sell gasoline at the same price. a. The most likely reason that the price is the same is that _gas stations always make a profit, so they can charge any price they want. _drivers need gas and are willing to pay whatever price a gas station charges. _government regulation requires both gas stations to charge the same price. _consumers view gasoline from different gas stations as perfect substitutes. b. If one station increases its price, _it will be fined by the government. _it will sell more gasoline. _it will make a higher profit. _it will lose customers to the cheaper station across the street.

W ECON 2100 Compatibility Mode Home Insert Draw Design Layout References Mailings Review View Share O Comments 2. Line D represents the market demand curve for polo shirts; if the polo shirt market is perfectly competitive and MC represents the market supply curve. But if the shirts are produced by a single monopoly firm, MR represents the marginal revenue curve for a monopolist producer of polo shirts and MC represents the marginal cost curve for that monopolist. 48 44 40 36 32 MC 28 20 16 12 8 4 MR 4 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 Quantity of Polo shirts a. If the polo shirts are supplied by a perfectly competitive industry, what will be the output and price? (Please explain your answer.) b. If the polo shirts are supplied by a monopoly, what will be the output and price that the monopoly would choose? (Please explain your answer.) c. Please show on the graph the dead weight loss associated with monopoly price/quantity outcome? Page 2 of 4 639 words English (United States) Focus +…

Answered: Suppose b X A https://blackboard.vsu.edu/webapps/assessment/take/launch.jsp?course assessment_ id3D_50488 * Question Completion Status: Ou. pcopic WIu mgncr IcoICS SIIOUIU pay gner pricCS uiar unUST WIUI TOWCI ICUIIICS. QUESTION 12 Exhibit 3 Demand and cost curves for GeneTech, a monopolist with a patented vaccine 50 45 40 レATC 35 Price, cots, and 30 25 revenue 20 perdose (dollars) 15 10 MR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quantity of vaccine (hundreds of doses per hour) In Exhibit 9-3, what is the maximum hourly profit that GeneTech can earn from its vaccine? O a. $10,500. O b. $4,500. O C. $1,500. O d. $3,000. QUESTION 13 Click Save amd Submit to save and submit. Click Save All Answers to save all answers. O Type here to search W 99+

5 A firm which is the only supplier in an industry is dominating the market through its market power. With the help of a diagram examine how such action would lead to market failure.

1. When a monopoly advertises, the goal is to _____ because _____. Group of answer choices increase its demand as a share of market demand; the monopoly faces a significant portion of market demand increase market demand; the monopoly faces the entire market demand increase market demand; the monopoly produces a product that is identical to the output of all other sellers in the market increase its demand as a share of market demand; the monopoly faces a small portion of market demand   2. If given a choice, a person would prefer to experience the situation of which of the following families? Group of answer choices a family with income equal to the world poverty line a family with income equal to the United States poverty line a family with income double the world poverty line a family with income equal to the poverty line in the United States in 1970   3. A business using its bargaining power as a major buyer of labor to pay lower prices, including lower wages,…

5. Indicate whether each of the following statements is true or false, and explain your answer.A. If a monoplist is producing a level of output at which demand is inelastic, the firm is not maximizing profits and increasing output will decrease total revenu.B. When a monopolist maximizes profits, the price is greater than the marginal cost of producing the output. This means that consumers are willing to pay more for additional units of the product than these additional units of the produce. Thus, the monopolist should produce and sell addional units of output.C.A monopolistically competitive firm produces a level of output at which price equals $80, marginal revenue equals $40, average total cost equals $100, marginal cost equals $40 , and average fixed cost equals $10. To maximize profit, the firm should produce a smaller output and sell it at a higher price.D. In a monopolistically competitive market, a firm has market power because it produces a differentiated product. This means…

13. What is the economic argument that monopolies are most often less efficient than highly (say, perfectly) competitive producers?   for managerial economics class

3. Finding the key to industrial efficiency There are five bicycle shops in the city of Romeria that are constantly competing for customers. Each bicycle shop always looks for ways to improve its bikes while keeping costs under control. Most economists would agree that this scenario would likely lead to industrial