Unit 3: Are Businesses Efficient? Product Markets and Efficiency

Lesson 10b: Monopoly: Long Run Equilibrium:
Efficiency, Price Discrimination, and Regulation

Key Problem

 

Monopoly - Long Run Equilibrium and Efficiency

 

Price Discrimination - How to find the profit maximizing quantity on a table
[works for me if I save the file to my computer first, then open it]

 

Monopoly - Long Run Equilibrium and Efficiency

Explain why Monopolies earn economic profits in the long run

Draw the long run equilibrium graph for a Monopoly

Explain why Monopolies are inefficient in the long run and show the following on the graph:

- the profit maximizing quantity
- the allocatively efficient quantity
- the productively efficient quantity

Price Discrimination - How to find the profit maximizing quantity on a table

MULTIPLE CHOICE:

10. Refer to the above data for a nondiscriminating monopolist. This firm will maximize its profit by producing what quantity?

A. 3 units
B. 4 units
C. 5 units
D. 6 units

11. If the above data was for a PERFECTLY PRICE DISCRIMINATING MONOPOLIST it would maximize its profit by producing what quantity?

A. 3 units
B. 4 units
C. 5 units
D. 6 units

12. If the above data was for a PERFECTLY PRICE DISCRIMINATING MONOPOLIST what would its total revenue be at the profit maximizing quantity?

A. $ 60
B. $ 300
C. $ 400
D. zero

13. If the above data was for a PERFECTLY PRICE DISCRIMINATING MONOPOLIST what would its profit be at the profit maximizing quantity?

A. zero
B. $ 152
C. $ 248
D. $ 400

 

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