D and E **Monopoly Regulation Exercise**Suppose you have been tasked with regulating a single monopoly firm that sells 50-pound bags of concrete. The firm has fixed costs of $10 million per year and a variable cost of $1 per bag no matter how many bags are produced.**Instructions:** Enter your answers as a whole number. In part e, round your answer to two decimal places.**a.** If this firm keeps increasing its output level, will ATC per bag ever increase?- [Dropdown to select answer]- Is this a decreasing-cost industry?- [Dropdown to select answer]**b.** If you wished to regulate this monopoly by charging the socially optimal price, what price would you charge?- $ [Input box] per bag- At that price, the size of the firm’s [Dropdown to select answer] would be $ [Input box] million.- Will the firm want to exit the industry?- [Dropdown to select answer]**c.** You find out that if you set the price at $2 per bag, consumers will demand 10 million bags.- At that price, the firm’s profit or loss will be $ [Input box] million.**d.** If consumers instead demanded 20 million bags at a price of $2, how big would the firm's profit or loss be?- At that price, the size of the firm’s [Dropdown to select answer] would be $ [Input box] million.**e.** Suppose that demand is perfectly inelastic at 20 million bags, so that consumers demand 20 million bags no matter what the price is. What price should you charge if you want the firm to earn only a fair rate of return? Assume as always that TC includes a normal profit.- $ [Input box]

Profit refers to the excess total revenue over the total cost at the particular level of production…

d. If consumers instead demanded 20 million bags at a price of $2, how big would the firm's profit or loss be? At that price, the size of the firm's (Click to select)♥ would be $ million. e. Suppose that demand is perfectly inelastic at 20 million bags, so that consumers demand 20 million bags no matter what the price is. What price should you charge if you want the firm to earn only a fair rate of return? Assume as always that TC includes a normal profit.

d. If consumers instead demanded 20 million bags at a price of $2, how big would the firm's profit or loss be? At that price, the size of the firm's (Click to select)♥ would be $ million. e. Suppose that demand is perfectly inelastic at 20 million bags, so that consumers demand 20 million bags no matter what the price is. What price should you charge if you want the firm to earn only a fair rate of return? Assume as always that TC includes a normal profit.

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

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ISBN:9780190931919

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Publisher:NEWNAN

Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

Section: Chapter Questions

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