The Firm & Market Structures
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Key Points
- Price elasticity > 1 is elastic; < 1 is inelastic.
- Positive income elasticity indicates a normal good; negative indicates an inferior good.
- Positive cross-price elasticity indicates substitutes; negative indicates complements.
Key Points
- Perfect Competition: Many small firms, homogeneous products, free entry.
- Imperfect Markets: Product differentiation, barriers to entry, price influence.
- Barriers to entry include patents, high startup costs, and resource access.
Key Points
- In Perfect Competition, P = AR = MR.
- In Imperfect Competition, MR < P and AR.
- ATC and AVC are U-shaped; MC intersects them at their minimums.
Key Points
- Profit Max Rule: Produce where MC = MR.
- Breakeven: TR = TC or P = ATC.
- Shutdown: P < AVC (Short Run) or P < ATC (Long Run).
Key Points
- Kinked demand curve explains sticky prices.
- Cournot model assumes constant rival output.
- HHI sums the squares of market shares to measure concentration.
Questions
If the price elasticity of demand coefficient is greater than 1, how is the demand characterized?
View answer and explanationWhat does a positive income elasticity (I_e > 0) indicate about a good?
View answer and explanationIf the cross-price elasticity between two goods is negative, how are the goods related?
View answer and explanationWhich of the following is a characteristic of Perfect Competition?
View answer and explanationIn a perfectly competitive market, what is the relationship between Marginal Revenue (MR), Average Revenue (AR), and Price (P)?
View answer and explanationHow is Total Revenue (TR) calculated?
View answer and explanationIn an imperfect market (e.g., Monopoly), what is the relationship between Marginal Revenue (MR) and Price?
View answer and explanationIf a firm has a Total Fixed Cost (TFC) of USD 25, what will be the TFC if the quantity produced doubles?
View answer and explanationHow is Total Cost (TC) defined?
View answer and explanationIf Total Fixed Cost is USD 30 and output is 10 units, what is the Average Fixed Cost (AFC)?
View answer and explanationWhich cost curve continually declines as output increases?
View answer and explanationWhat does the vertical distance between the Average Total Cost (ATC) and Average Variable Cost (AVC) curves represent?
View answer and explanationAt what point does cost minimization occur regarding the Marginal Cost (MC) curve?
View answer and explanationIf producing 5 units costs USD 50 and producing 6 units costs USD 55, what is the Marginal Cost for the 6th unit?
View answer and explanationWhat condition must be met for a firm to maximize profits?
View answer and explanationIn the short run, when should a firm shut down?
View answer and explanationWhat defines the breakeven point for a firm?
View answer and explanationIn the long run, when will a firm shut down?
View answer and explanationWhat happens initially to Average Total Cost (ATC) as production increases?
View answer and explanationWhich curve represents the firm's supply curve in the short run under perfect competition?
View answer and explanationWhat is 'Normal Profit'?
View answer and explanationIn the long run equilibrium for Perfect Competition, what is the relationship between Price and ATC?
View answer and explanationUnder Monopolistic Competition in the long run, which of the following is true regarding price and ATC?
View answer and explanationWhat distinguishes Monopolistic Competition from Perfect Competition regarding products?
View answer and explanationIn an Oligopoly, what describes the barriers to entry?
View answer and explanationWhich market structure involves a single seller with unique products?
View answer and explanationWhat does the 'Kinked Demand Curve' model in oligopoly suggest about price changes?
View answer and explanationWhat is the key assumption of the Cournot model?
View answer and explanationWhat is a Nash Equilibrium?
View answer and explanationWhich market concentration measure involves summing the squared market shares of the largest firms?
View answer and explanationCalculate the N-firm concentration ratio for N=4 if the market shares are 30 percent, 20 percent, 10 percent, and 5 percent.
View answer and explanationWhat is a major limitation of both the N-firm concentration ratio and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index?
View answer and explanationIn the Dominant Firm Model, how is the market price determined?
View answer and explanationIf a product has an income elasticity of -0.5, it is classified as:
View answer and explanationIf selling 8 units at USD 4 results in an Average Revenue of USD 4, what is the market structure likely to be?
View answer and explanationWhat does a concentration ratio of 100 percent for N=1 indicate?
View answer and explanationIn the short run for a perfectly competitive firm, if Price (P) is greater than ATC, the firm is:
View answer and explanationWhat implies 'allocative efficiency' in Perfect Competition?
View answer and explanationCalculate HHI if there are two firms with 50 percent market share each.
View answer and explanationWhich market structure engages heavily in advertising to maintain a competitive edge?
View answer and explanationIf a firm increases production from 3 units to 4 units, and Total Revenue increases from USD 24 to USD 31, what is the Marginal Revenue of the 4th unit?
View answer and explanationWhat creates a natural monopoly?
View answer and explanationIn the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma (Game Theory), what outcome often occurs?
View answer and explanationWhich elasticity indicates that good A is a substitute for good B?
View answer and explanationIf a firm in Perfect Competition raises its price above the market price, what happens?
View answer and explanationAverage Variable Cost (AVC) is calculated by:
View answer and explanationDiseconomies of scale occur when:
View answer and explanationAccording to the Cournot strategy, in long-run equilibrium:
View answer and explanationWhich pricing strategy involves a firm utilizing its large market share and lower cost structure to set prices?
View answer and explanationIf a government wishes to measure market power but wants to capture the merger effect more accurately, which metric is preferred?
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