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The basis of judgment for the standard oil and the ALCOA cases.
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O Microsoft won and its practices were not classified as restrictive.
How would you calculate
The Microsoft antitrust case covered in your textbook embodies many of
the gray areas in restrictive practices. Antitrust regulators accused
Microsoft of numerous offenses. What was the end result?
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O The federal government regulators finally dropped their case because the case
was too complex to prove.
O Microsoft appealed a federal court decision to break up the company and
reached a settlement with the government that it would end its restrictive
practices.
O The federal government won its case, and Microsoft was broken into several
smaller companies.
Suppose regulators are deciding how the local electric company is allowed to set prices. Demand for
electricity is given by P = 40-Q, where Q is millions of megawatt hours demanded annually. The electric
company is allowed to operate as a monopoly. The marginal cost of the company is $2, while the fixed cost
is $150 million annually.
(a) If the price of the electric company was not regulated, what price would it set? What would be its
profits and the deadweight loss?
(b) Knowing the fixed cost, demand curve, and marginal cost of the utility, the regulator decides to set
a linear price that allows the electric utility to break even. What is this price? What would be the
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outcome in (b)? Would there be any challenges that would prevent regulators from using the
prices you…
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