How do the demand curves facing the perfectly competitive firm,
the monopolist, and the monopolistically competitive firm differ?
Explain why these differences arise.
Compare the short run and long run for perfectly competitive
firms. How do perfectly competitive firms adapt to market changes
in the short run? What can perfectly competitive firms expect in
the long run in terms of profits?
5. There are five buyers and five sellers in a perfectly
competitive market. Each buyer wishes to purchase one single unit
of the good. The willingness to pay displayed by these buyers is
presented in the following table:
Buyer:
1
2
3
4
5
Willingness to Pay:
$4
$8
$2
$5
$7
Each firm sells also only one unit of the good. The cost of
producing that unit for these firms is denoted by the following
table:
Seller:
1
2...
Both the perfectly competitive firm and the monopolist produce
at the output where marginal revenue equal marginal cost, but only
the perfect competitive firm achieves allocative efficiency.
Explain why?
Producer Behavior -- Suppose the market for cookies is perfectly
competitive. You are producing cookies. The market demand for
cookies is ? = 60 − 2?? and its market supply is ? = ??. The total
cost for firms to produce cookies is ?? = 50 + 4? + 2? 2 where ?
denotes firm-level quantity.
a. What is the market equilibrium price?
b. How much cookies you should produce to maximize your
profit?
c. What do you think will...
3a. Name & explain three significant ways that a monopolist
behaves differently than a perfectly competitive firm? How does
this impact customers?
b. does your answer change if the monopolist is the
government?
c. how does price discrimination fit in?
3. Compare the price and quantity outcomes delivered by
monopolistically competitive and perfectly competitive industries.
State and explain the implications for society about
efficiency.