QUESTION 5 • Compare and contrast the following market structures: Perfect Competition and Monopoly. • Comment on which market structure is better for the firm and which market structure is better for the consumers in the market.

In this week’s discussion we focus on market competition and the power of firms to set prices. (a) Along with your textbook reading, review the videos, blog, and articles on market competition. Then respond to the following questions: If all the firms in an industry are charging the same price, is it fair to say that they are engaged in price collusion? To what extent might this be a plausible explanation? Are there any other possible explanations? What type of market structure do you think is more conducive to firms engaging in price-fixing? Why do you think the price-fixing situation in the case described went on for so long? (one paragraph) Click the link to review a recent price-fixing case on bread. (b) In your town or city try to find a local business that appears to enjoy some degree of monopoly power (it does not have to be a pure monopoly: one unique product and one seller). Briefly describe the nature of this business and explain some of the factors that give it monopoly…

Question 17 Compared to perfect competition, in a monopoly market structure price is and quantity is higher, lower higher, higher lower, higher lower, lower O O

7) How do Monopolistic Competition and Perfect Competition differ in terms of efficient use of resources, in the long run?

Question 26 If firms in a competitive price-searcher (monopolistic competitive) market are currently earning economic losses, then in the long run, new firms will enter the market, and the current firms will experience a decrease in demand for their products until zero economic profit is again restored. new firms will enter the market, and the current firms will experience an increase in demand for their products until zero economic profit is again restored. some existing firms will exit the market, and the remaining firms will experience an increase in demand for their products until zero economic profit is again restored. some existing firms will exit the market, and the remaining firms will experience a decrease in demand for their products until zero economic profit is again restored.

Nations can increase their productivity by specializing and trading with countries that are more efficient at producing certain goods or services.    True  False

QUESTION 8 Kim is a cook that makes really unique egg rolls and she is the only person selling these egg rolls. Assume Kim's demand is linear and that she profit maximises. Select the item from the list provided to make the following statements true: Kim's egg roll business operates in a monopoly because 1. is less than 2. profit 3. there are close substitutes 4. is greater than 5. there is only one seller 6. dead weight loss 7. is equal to 8. she is a price taker 9. there are many sellers Kim is profit maximising implying that she is producing at where her marginal revenue her marginal cost of production. ✓ If Kim were to produce where her marginal cost intersects the demand curve for her egg rolls, she would be maximising 10. revenue 11. consumer surplus 12, is exactly twice of

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