ECO 561 Final Exam w/ corrected answers 1) Suppose that in the clothing market‚ production costs have fallen‚ but the equilibrium price and quantity purchased have both increased. Based on this information you can conclude that A. the supply of clothing has grown faster than the demand for clothing [B. demand for clothing has grown faster than the supply of clothing] C. the supply of and demand for clothing have grown by the same proportion D. there is no way to determine what has
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Simulation Quasar Following an economic analysis on the company Quasar Computers‚ based in the computer industry to understand pricing strategies and market competitiveness. First‚ identify the pricing strategies and price in each market structures: monopoly‚ oligopoly‚ monopolistic competition and perfect competition. Second‚ we describe the relationship between technology‚ research‚ development and economic efficiency and then justify the investment in these areas to maximize the economic benefits
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competition should lead to the optimum allocation of | | |resources. | |Monopoly |A monopoly is a firm that dominates the market and in the case of a pure monopoly | | |has a 100% market share (produces the entire output of the industry). A monopolist | | |will have
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Fall 2010 1 / 25 Outline 1 Understanding Oligopolies 2 Game Theory The Prisoner’s Dilemma Overcoming the Prisoner’s Dilemma 3 Antitrust Policy Herriges (ISU) Ch. 15 Oligopoly Fall 2010 2 / 25 The Oligopoly Monopolies are quiet rare‚ in part due to regulatory efforts to discourage them. However‚ there are many markets that are dominated by a relatively few firms‚ known as oligopolies. The term oligopoly comes from two Greek words: oligoi meaning “few” and poleein
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consumers the price they are willing to pay‚ a firm can increase its profits at the expense of consumers’ surplus (see Figure 1.) This‚ of course‚ happens when that firm has market power to discriminate-when the market is oligopolistic or the firm is a monopoly (there is little price discrimination in the market for washing powder‚ for example). There are three degrees of price discrimination: the first degree means charging each consumer as much as she wants to pay‚ therefore extracting all the consumer
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characteristics‚ it may be possible to identify a limited number of market structures that can be used to analyze decision making. TYPES OF MARKET STRUCTURE Economists usually classify market structures into four main types: Perfect Competition‚ Monopoly‚ Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly. These types of market structure are different according to the following characteristics: CHARACTERISTICS OF MARKET STRUCTURE - Number and Size Distribution of Sellers. The ability of an individual firm
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limited companies that control the market. This type of market structure has a competition which they must constantly be working on improvements to compete with rivalry companies. d) A monopoly has high entry barriers with only one firm. This single firm also doesn’t really have any competitors. In a monopoly‚ this
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Short Paper: EU Competition Policy Economic principles underlying EU competition policy Effective competition between suppliers is important in the way that it allows to reduce prices‚ improve the quality of goods‚ and enlarge the quantity of items provided for the consumers due to the process of innovation. The European Commission’s purpose is to ensure fair competition in European markets. It promotes economic efficiency‚ an optimal allocation of resources
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perfectly competitive or as a pure monopoly. The vast majority of firms do compete with other firms‚ often quite aggressively‚ and yet they are not price takers: they do have some degree of market power. Most markets‚ therefore‚ lie between the two extremes of monopoly and perfect competition as seen in in the below picture namely‚ monopolistic competition and oligopoly. Perfectly Competitive Monopolistic competition Oligopoly Pure Monopoly Fig. 1 Cases under study
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Home work questions Define the following 1. Costs in economics are those things that must be given up in order to have something else. 2. Revenues are the income earned from a firm’s sale of its good or service to consumers in the product market. 3. Profit is the difference between a firm’s total revenues and its total costs. 4. Explicit costs are the monetary payments that firms make to the owners of land‚ labor‚ and capital in the resource market. (i.e. rent‚ wages and interest respectively)
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