Would delivery pizza in a large city be best described as a perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, or monopoly and why?

Why is it that monopolies can enjoy long run profits, but firms under monopolistic competition face a zero-profit long run equilibrium?

Please consider firms in the following types of markets: Monopolistic Competition Oligopoly Pure Competition Pure Monopoly Check All That Apply The following questions will ask you to check all of the market types that has each characteristic. There may be only one market type or there may be more than one market type for each characteristic. Price is equal to marginal revenue Monopolistic Competition Oligopoly Pure Monopoly Pure Competition Has high barriers to entry Monopolistic Competition Pure Competition Pure Monopoly Oligopoly Charges the lowest price Pure Monopoly Pure Competition Monopolistic Competition Oligopoly Produces the lowest quantity Monopolistic Competition Pure Monopoly Pure Competition Oligopoly Achieves allocative efficiency in the long run equilibrium Monopolistic Competition Pure Competition Oligopoly Pure Monopoly O O O O

Suppose that a company operates in the monopolistically competitive market for denim jackets. The following graph shows the demand curve, marginal revenue (MR) curve, marginal cost (MC) curve, and average total cost (ATC) curve for the firm. Place a black point (plus symbol) on the graph to indicate the long-run monopolistically competitive equilibrium price and quantity for this firm. Next, place a grey point (star symbol) to indicate the minimum average total cost the firm faces and the quantity associated with that cost. ? 100 PRICE (Dollars per jacket) 8 20 60 50 X ATC 20 MC MR 2 2 2 2 10 0 0 30 40 50 60 70 QUANTITY (Thousands of jackets) 10 20 80 Demand 90 100 Mon Comp Outcome Min Unit Cost

Which of the following statements is true about the difference between monopoly and monopolistic competition? a.Monopolies always earn positive profits b.Monopolistically competitive firms have no barriers to entry or exit

Suppose that a company operates in the monopolistically competitive market for denim jackets. The following graph shows the demand curve, marginal revenue (MR) curve, marginal cost (MC) curve, and average total cost (ATC) curve for the firm. Place a black point (plus symbol) on the graph to indicate the long-run monopolistically competitive equilibrium price and quantity for this firm. Next, place a grey point (star symbol) to indicate the minimum average total cost the firm faces and the quantity associated with that cost. PRICE (Dollars per jacket) 100 90 80 50 ATC 30 2 8 8 2 2 2 2 ° 60 MC MR Demand 0 + 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 QUANTITY (Thousands of jackets) Mon Comp Outcome Min Unit Cost (?)

Firms compete in different types of market structures. In the real world, most markets are either monopolistically competitive or oligopolistic, and a few markets have a monopoly. Note that perfect competition is rare because no market has all the characteristics of a perfectly competitive market as described by the theory of perfect competition.  Explain which firm is likely to face a more elastic demand curve: a monopoly or a pizza shop?

Suppose the figure to the right represents the market for a particular brand of shampoo, such as L'Oreal, Lancome, or Maybelline. Assume the market is monopolistically competitive and is in long-run equilibrium. How much excess capacity does the firm have? The monopolistically competitive firm's excess capacity is thousand bottles of shampoo. (Enter your response as an integer.) C Price and cost (per bottle) 2.00- Q 1.80- MC Q ATC 1.60- 1.40- 1.20- 1.00- 0.80- 0.60- 0.40- 0.20- 0.00+ 0 2 MR D 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Quantity (shampoo bottles in thousands)

Q2: You have a small decoration business primarily making custom paper mache pinata's. Monopolistic Competition. Each customer has unique custom order, therefore it is very difficult to figure out the marginal cost of each output. You charge a price of $15 for any small two foot by two foot pinata's. Without marginal cost, how can you check to see if the small pinata's were profitable?

Explain if excess profit will exist in the long run for an oligopolistic market.