Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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A local tailor has two types of customers, private customers and department stores. The market of
private customers has a demand given by Qp = 2000 – 100P, and the market of department stores
=
has a demand given by Qs
equal to zero.
4000 100P. The marginal cost of one more alteration is constant and
(a)
(b) What is the value of each demand's elasticity at the optimal price level?
(c) What is the total consumer surplus (for both groups)?
(d)
Suppose that the tailor can charge different prices to each type of customer. What are the
optimal prices? What is the total profit?
Suppose that a regulation prohibits price discrimination. What is the optimal (uniform)
price when the markets are combined? How much does the regulation cost the tailor in
terms of forgone profits?
(e) What happens to consumer surplus?
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