a. A monopolistic competitor, much like a firm in perfect b. Advertising can play a role as an indirect signal of competition, sells its product at a point product quality to customers. where the price is equal to the marginal cost. O false true O true false
a. A monopolistic competitor, much like a firm in perfect b. Advertising can play a role as an indirect signal of competition, sells its product at a point product quality to customers. where the price is equal to the marginal cost. O false true O true false
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a. A monopolistic competitor, much like a firm in perfect
b. Advertising can play a role as an indirect signal of
competition, sells its product at a point
product quality to customers.
where the price is equal to the marginal cost.
true
false
true
O false
c. Monopolistically competitive industries are more likely
d. In the long run, monopolistic competitors make a
to make use of advertising to create products that catch
similar amount of profit to monopolists, since, in both
on in mainstream popularity than industries in perfect
cases, the firm's demand curves are downward sloping,
competition.
and at the profit maximizing point, the marginal cost is
true
false
equal to the marginal revenue.
O true
O false
e. In the short term, a monopolistic competitor will make
a profit if the demand curve is above the average total
cost curve at some point.
true
false
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