For a monopolist’s output: Demand: P= 90 – 4Q
Cost: TC = 10Q. For the profit maximizing monopolist that charges
the same price to all buyers:
Compute P and Q.
Compute the Lerner Index (Price Cost Markup). Use the Lerner
Index formula.
Compute price elasticity of demand at the price in answer
(a).
Explain the relationship between your answers to b and c.
Compute the deadweight loss from monopoly?
Compute the deadweight loss from monopoly that Gordon Tullock
would calculate?...
Based on dynamics of
past economic recoveries in the US, predict what is likely to
happen to the US LFPR
and Unemployment Rate
(U-3) right after the COVID recession is over? Please explain your
reasoning. Your answer to this question should be under 100 words
(5 lines of typed text).
Based on dynamics of past economic recoveries in the US, predict
what is likely to happen to the US LFPR and Unemployment Rate (U-3)
right after the COVID recession is over? Please explain your
reasoning.
When the price of a good falls, we know exactly what will
happen to consumer spending on that good. True or False?
Explain.
Is the demand for hospital services inelastic or elastic?
Explain.
Briefly explain why indifference curves cannot intersect.
If nurse practitioners and primary care physicians were perfect
substitutes, what would you expect to be their wage
differential?
Other things being equal, if the demand for physician services
suddenly became more inelastic, how would that affect consumer
surplus?
Everything else remaining unchanged, what is likely to happen to
the credit demand curve of an economy if:
(a) businesses in the economy see scope for growth and are
planning to expand production in the future?
(b) households are pessimistic about future incomes?
(c) the government is planning to borrow money from financial
institutions to increase investments in infrastructure?
Explain
Briefly describe what would likely happen to the supply and
demand of each good if the event noted occurred. What
would be the likely effect on the price and quantity in each case?
a) lobster: News
reports that toxins have been found in shellfish.
b) Exercise
Equipment: A link is discovered between lack of
exercise and several forms of cancer
c) Haddock:
New government regulations dramatically decreases the number of
haddock that fisherman are allowed to catch.
Suppose demand for a monopoly’s product falls so that its
profit-maximizing price is below average variable cost. How much
output should the firm supply? Hint: Draw the graph.
A
It should increase output.
B
?It should shut down and produce no output.
C
It should decrease output.
A monopolist faces an isoelastic demand curve with price
elasticity ??(?) = −1.5. The monopolist’s marginal cost of
production is constant and equal to ?. The price given the
monopolist’s profit maximizing choice of output equals ? ∗ = 42.
Calculate the monopolist’s marginal cost ?.
Using supply and demand theory, explain the likely impacts on
market price and output levels given the following scenario.
Ketchup is a complement (as well as a condiment) for hot dogs.
Suppose the price of hot dogs rises:
a. How will the ketchup market be impacted?
b. Given these impacts, how will the tomato market be
impacted?
c. And the market for tomato juice?
d. The market for orange juice?
What is a single-price monopoly’s total economic profit at
eleven units if it makes $10 per unit profit when it produces ten
units of output, where the marginal revenue of the eleventh unit is
$55 and the marginal cost is $60?a.$75b.$85c.$80d.$95If a single-price monopolist is currently maximizing profits,
what can be concluded?a.She is producing where marginal revenue equals average
cost.b.She has reduced the difference between marginal revenue and
marginal cost to zero.c.She is maximizing total revenue and marginal revenue.d.She is...