Unit 3: Are Businesses Efficient? Product Markets and Efficiency

Lesson 11a: Monopolistic Competition: Are Businesses Efficient?

Key Graphs

 

Monopolistic Competition in Short Run Equilibrium

 

Monopolistic Competition in Long Run Equilibrium

- D is the profit maximizing quantity (MR=MC):
What We Get
- G is the allocatively efficient quantity (P=MC):
What We Want
- E is the productively efficient quantity (MC=ATC):
Produce at a Minimum Cost

 

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Lesson 11a