a. Assuming the cookie industry is perfectly competitive demonstrate using market supply and demand curves the effect of this decline in demand on equilibrium price and quantity in the short run. b. Assuming a cookie form was in equilibrium before the change in demand, and it is a constant-cost industry, demonstrate the effect of the decline in equilibrium price for an individual cookie firm in the short run. c. How might your answer to question "a" if you are considering long run?
A Wall Street journal headline states: "a nation of snackers snubs old favorite: the beloved cookie" as u.s. consumers adopted more carbohydrate-conscious diets, the number of cookie boxes sold declined 5.4 percent that year, the third consecutive year of decline.
a. Assuming the cookie industry is
b. Assuming a cookie form was in equilibrium before the change in demand, and it is a constant-cost industry, demonstrate the effect of the decline in equilibrium price for an individual cookie firm in the short run.
c. How might your answer to question "a" if you are considering long run?
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