Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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![MODEL SCENARIO-TOOTHPASTE
Quantity of Toothpaste Produced
Price of Toothpaste Sold
DIncrease
Olocrease
ODecrease
ODecrease
OUnchanged
DUnchanged
DUnknown
OUnknown
3.
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Transcribed Image Text:MODEL SCENARIO-TOOTHPASTE
Quantity of Toothpaste Produced
Price of Toothpaste Sold
DIncrease
Olocrease
ODecrease
ODecrease
OUnchanged
DUnchanged
DUnknown
OUnknown
3.
4.
![ODEL SCENARIO - TOOTHPASTE
Up until 1977, the Island Nation of Somberio had a perfectly competitive market for toothpaste. Then, ever
single one of the independent toothpaste firms merged together to form a single monopoly corporation.
Suppose all other market conditions remained unchanged (i.e. cost curves and demand curves have not
moved).
1. Based on our models of these markets, what changes do we expect to see in the prices and quantities of
toothpaste produced?
2. What do we as economists call this difference in price and production level?
3. After a year of operating as a monopoly. the Somberioan government decided to regulate this toothpaste
monopoly and required it to produce at a "Fair-Return Price". What changes would we expect to see in
market price and quantity produced?
4. Suppose the Somberioan toothpaste market didn't become a monopoly but had instead gone from
perfectly-competitive to a monopolistic-competitive market. What non-price changes might we expect to
see take place?](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F4461a8f8-60be-4e53-bf81-ba252336b4db%2F1011bb35-1790-44fe-bdf8-dce6a46e2367%2F2h7ak9_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:ODEL SCENARIO - TOOTHPASTE
Up until 1977, the Island Nation of Somberio had a perfectly competitive market for toothpaste. Then, ever
single one of the independent toothpaste firms merged together to form a single monopoly corporation.
Suppose all other market conditions remained unchanged (i.e. cost curves and demand curves have not
moved).
1. Based on our models of these markets, what changes do we expect to see in the prices and quantities of
toothpaste produced?
2. What do we as economists call this difference in price and production level?
3. After a year of operating as a monopoly. the Somberioan government decided to regulate this toothpaste
monopoly and required it to produce at a "Fair-Return Price". What changes would we expect to see in
market price and quantity produced?
4. Suppose the Somberioan toothpaste market didn't become a monopoly but had instead gone from
perfectly-competitive to a monopolistic-competitive market. What non-price changes might we expect to
see take place?
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