You are given a firm under perfect competition. The firm has
two plants. It is faced...
You are given a firm under perfect competition. The firm has
two plants. It is faced with the problem of allocating a given
total output between the two plants that it owns.
How should the firm allocate its total output among the two
plants.
1. You are given a firm under perfect competition. The
firm has two plants. It is faced with the problem of allocating a
given total output between the two plants that it owns.
(a) How should the firm allocate its total output among the two
plants.
(b) Graphically illustrate the allocation.
Suppose a firm operating under perfect competition in the short
run has the following total cost function;
C = 125 + q^2
If price equals $30;
a. What is the profit maximizing level of output q? (Hint: P =
MC)
b. Should the firm shut down or continue to produce? Explain in
detail.
c. Is the firm making a profit, loss, or breaking even?
(b) Draw a diagram that shows a firm under perfect competition
making a profit in the short run. How is price determined in this
case?
(c) Draw a diagram to illustrate the case of perfect competition
where there is a negative production externality. Show how, if the
production externality is ignored, output will differ compared to
the alternative where society’s needs are taken into account.
Explain briefly how a tax could be relevant in achieving the social
optimum
(a) Sketch...
6. What does it mean to say that: “A firm operating under
perfect competition conditions is a price taker"?
Why Can't this firm set any price it chooses? What if it
operates in a monopolistically competitive market, would it be able
to set the price? Why? Give some real life examples to support your
answe
On a diagram, show the long-run equilibrium for both firm and
industry under perfect competition. Now assume that the demand for
the product rises. Show the new short term effects and discuss what
might happen after the market responds.
compare the profit maximizing conditions of a firm operating under perfect competition versus a firm operating under monopoly. explain and justify the similaries and differences.
Question 15
The short-run supply curve to a firm operating under perfect
competition is most accurately described as the segment of
the:
A. marginal cost (MC) curve above the average variable cost (AVC)
curve.
B. marginal cost (MC) curve below the average total cost (ATC)
curve.
C. average total cost (ATC) curve above the average variable cost
(AVC) curve.
D. marginal cost (MC) curve.
question 17
Which of the following factors of production is least likely to
be fixed in...
1. Perfect competition vs. monopoly:
a) What is the difference between the demand curve faced by a
perfectly competitive firm and a perfectly competitive industry and
a monopolist firm?
b) What is the difference between the total revenue curve faced
by a perfectly competitive firm and a monopolist firm? How about
the marginal revenue curve?