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Assume that the demand for electric cars is p = 100-q (where q is the quantity and p is the price), and that an innovation can reduce the constant marginal cost of production from 70 to 60.
- What is the definition of nondrastic/drastic innovation?
- Confirm that the innovation for electric cars is nondrastic.
- Show that marginalcost would have to be reduced to less than 40 for theinnovation to bedrastic.
- Suppose that the industry is a
monopoly (not threatened by entry). Howmuch is this firm willing to pay to acquire the innovation?
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- The government is contemplating regulating the monopoly and forcing it to operate at the competitive solution. Please indicate graphically the resulting welfare gains to society (hint: the gains are equal to the deadweight loss of a monopoly). Explain your response briefly.For a monopoly, why is marginal revenue less than price? a) If a monopoly wishes to increase sales, it must raise the price to all customers. The impact of the price effect alone causes marginal revenue to be less than price. b) If a monopoly wishes to increase sales, it must lower the price to all customers. The impact of the quantity effect alone causes marginal revenue to be less than price. If a monopoly wishes to increase sales, it must lower the price to all customers. The marginal revenue will be less than the price because of the impact of the price effect working with the quantity effect. d) If a monopoly wishes to increase sales, it must raise the price to all customers. The impact of the price effect, working with the quantity effect, causes marginal revenue to be less than price. If a monopoly wishes to increase sales, it must lower the price to all customers. The impact of the price effect alone causes marginal revenue to be less than price.Allocative inefficiency is observed in the case of monopoly where economies of scale is absent. Define the allocative inefficiency and present a diagram which shows allocative inefficiency of profit-maximizing monopoly. Compare the price and profit maximization level of output of monopoly to those of a perfectly competitive market. For comparison’s sake, use the assumption that firms in a perfectly competitive industry were bought by a business person and begins to act as a monopoly.
- Suppose you're the manager of Babylon Jazz Bar. And, your bar has both young and adult customers. The demand for a typical adult customer is Q4 = 18– 3P and, for a typical young customers is Q' = 10 – 2P, where Q shows number of drinks and P shows price per drink. The marginal cost of a drink is 2-TL. And, you want to determine an entrance fee & a price per drink that maximize Babylon's profit. a. What will be the fees (entrance & per drink) for adult customers, and number of drinks? b. What will be the fees for young customers, and number of drinks? c. What is the profit of Babylon if there are 100 customers in each group?In the linear example illustrated in the figure to the right, how does charging the monopoly a specific tax of t = $8 per unit affect the monopoly optimum and the welfare of consumers, the monopoly, and society (where society's welfare includes tax revenue)? What is the incidence of the tax on consumers? Determine how imposing the tax affects the monopoly optimum. Use the line drawing tool to show how the tax affects the monopoly's cost of production by drawing a new marginal cost curve with the tax. Label this line 'MC¹'. Carefully follow the instructions above, and only draw the required objects. p, $ per unit 26- 24- 22- 20- 18- 16- 14- 12- 10- 8- 6- 4- 2- 0- 0 2 3 4 MC D MR 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Q, Units per dayIn the linear example illustrated in the figure to the right, how does charging the monopoly a specific tax of t= $4 per unit affect the monopoly optimum and the welfare of consumers, the monopoly, and society (where society's welfare includes tax revenue)? What is the incidence of the tax on consumers? Determine how imposing the tax affects the monopoly optimum. Use the line drawing tool to show how the tax affects the monopoly's cost of production by drawing a new marginal cost curve with the tax. Label this line "MC". Carefully follow the instructions above, and only draw the required objects. p. $ per unit 26- 24- 22- 20- 184 d 16- 14- 124 à 104 84 6 4- 23 MC D MR 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Q. Units per day dou
- Consider the daily market for hot dogs in a small city. Suppose that this market is in long-run competitive equilibrium with many hot dog stands in the city, each one selling the same kind of hot dogs. Therefore, each vendor is a price taker and possesses no market power. The following graph shows the demand (D) and supply (S = MC) curves in the market for hot dogs. Place the black point (plus symbol) on the graph to indicate the market price and quantity that will result from competition. Competitive Market 5.0 4.5 PC Outcome 4.0 3.5 3.0 o 2.5 2.0 S=MC 1.5 1.0 0.5 D 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 QUANTITY (Hot dogs) PRICE (Dollars per hot dog)5. Monopoly outcome versus competition outcome Consider the daily market for hot dogs in a small city. Suppose that this market is in long-run competitive equilibrium with many hot dog stands in the city, each one selling the same kind of hot dogs. Therefore, each vendor is a price taker and possesses no market power. The following graph shows the demand (D) and supply (S = MC) curves in the market for hot dogs. Place the black point (plus symbol) on the graph to indicate the market price and quantity that will result from competition. Competitive Market 5.0 4.5 PC Outcome 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0 PRICE (Dollars per hot dog) 0 30 60 S=MC 90 120 150 180 210 QUANTITY (Hot dogs) D 240 270 300Assume that one of the hot dog vendors successfully lobbies the city council to obtain the exclusive right to sell hot dogs within the city limits. This firm buys up all the rest of the hot dog vendors in the city and operates as a monopoly. Assume that this change doesn't affect demand and that the new monopoly's marginal cost curve corresponds exactly to the supply curve on the previous graph. Under this assumption, the following graph shows the demand (D), marginal revenue (MR), and marginal cost (MC) curves for the monopoly firm. Place the black point (plus symbol) on the following graph to indicate the profit-maximizing price and quantity of a monopolist. Use the green points (triangle symbol) to shade the area that represents consumer surplus, and use the purple points (diamond symbol) to shade the area that represents producer surplus. PRICE (Dollars per hot dog) 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0 0 30 Monopoly MC D MR 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 QUANTITY (Hot dogs)…
- Assume that one of the hot dog vendors successfully lobbies the city council to obtain the exclusive right to sell hot dogs within the city limits. This firm buys up all the rest of the hot dog vendors in the city and operates as a monopoly. Assume that this change doesn't affect demand and that the new monopoly's marginal cost curve corresponds exactly to the supply curve on the previous graph. Under this assumption, the following graph shows the demand (D), marginal revenue (MR), and marginal cost (Mc) curves for the monopoly firm. Place the black point (plus symbol) on the following graph to indicate the profit-maximizing price and quantity of a monopolist. Monopoly 5.0 4.5 Monopoly Outcome 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 MC 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 D MR 35 70 105 140 175 210 245 280 315 350 QUANTITY (Hot dogs) In the following table, enter the price and quantity that would arise in a perfectly competitive market; then enter the profit-maximizing price and quantity that would be chosen if a monopolist…Kalamazoo Competition-Free Concrete (KCC) is a local monopolist of ready-mix concrete. Its annual demand function is Q* = 10,000 – 200P, where Pis the price, in dollars, of a cubic yard of concrete and Qis the number of cubic yards sold per year. Suppose that Kalamazoo's marginal cost is $20 per cubic yard and fixed costs are sunk. Instructions: Round your answers to 2 decimal places. a. What is the deadweight loss from monopoly pricing? b. Now suppose that fixed costs are avoidable and large enough such that the monopolist elects not to produce. What is the deadweight loss from the monopoly not producing? %24You are the manager of a pizzeria that produces at a marginal cost of $6 per pizza. The pizzeria is a local monopoly near campus (there are no other restaurants or food stores within 500 miles). During the day, only students eat at your restaurant. In the evening, while students are studying, faculty members eat there. If students have an elasticity of demand for pizzas of −4 and the faculty has an elasticity of demand of −2, what should your pricing policy be to maximize profits?