Unit 3: Are Businesses Efficient? Product Markets and Efficiency

Lesson 11a: Monopolistic Competition: Are Businesses Efficient?

Key Problem

Monopolistic Competition - How to find the quantity, price, and profit on a graph
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Monopolistic Competition - Long Run Equilibrium and Efficiency

Monopolistic Competition - How to find the quantity, price, and profit on a graph

 

3. MULTIPLE CHOLICE: Refer to the above diagram for a monopolistically competitive firm in short-run equilibrium. This firm will realize an economic:

A. loss of $320
B. profit of $480
C. profit of $280
D. profit of $600

 

Monopolistic Competition - Long Run Equilibrium and Efficiency

Explain why Monopolistically Competitive firms earn zero economic profits in the long run

Draw the long run equilibrium graph for Monopolistic Competition

Discuss the efficiency of Monopolistically Competitive firms in the long run and show the following on the graph:

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

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