Price, Cost P4 P3 P2 P₁ I 1 MR ATC MC D I Q₁ Q2 Q3 Q4 Quantity The graph above shows the cost and revenue curves for a natural monopoly that provides electrical power to the town of Fanaland. If unregulated, the monopolist operates to maximize its profit. (a) Identify the monopolist's profit-maximizing quantity and price. (b) Assume the town government of Fanaland regulates the monopolist's price to achieve the allocatively efficient quantity. What price would the government set in order to achieve the allocatively efficient quantity?_ (c) Will producing the allocatively efficient quantity be economically feasible for the monopolist? Explain.

Price, Cost P4 P3 P2 P₁ I 1 MR ATC MC D I Q₁ Q2 Q3 Q4 Quantity The graph above shows the cost and revenue curves for a natural monopoly that provides electrical power to the town of Fanaland. If unregulated, the monopolist operates to maximize its profit. (a) Identify the monopolist's profit-maximizing quantity and price. (b) Assume the town government of Fanaland regulates the monopolist's price to achieve the allocatively efficient quantity. What price would the government set in order to achieve the allocatively efficient quantity?_ (c) Will producing the allocatively efficient quantity be economically feasible for the monopolist? Explain.

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1) Utku's company is monopoly in the oil market. Demand equation in this market is given as: Q = 100 – 2P and total cost equation is as the following: TC = 2Q2 + 10. Find monopoly quantity, price and profit.
(a) Does a monopolistically competitive firm have an incentive to produce at the level of output that minimizes the average total cost at the long run equilibrium? Explain with a diagram. (b) Suppose CLP Holdings Limited is a natural monopolist with constant marginal cost. Draw a diagram to indicate the profit-maximizing level of output, the profit-maximizing price, and the size of the profit. If the government wants to increase the market efficiency through price regulation, would you suggest the government setting the price equal to the firm’s marginal cost or its average total cost? Explain in detail with the diagram in part (i).
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3. A monopolist faces a demand curve of P = 120 – 2q and has a production function given by f (L, K) = L'/4K¼. Input prices are w = 1 and r = 4. (a) Calculate the monopolist's (long-run) marginal cost as a function of the quantity it produces. (b) Draw a diagram illustrating the monopolist's problem. Identify each of the following on the diagram and calculate its numeric value: (i) monopolist's profit-maximizing quantity, (ii) price charged, (iii) monopolist's profit, (iv) consumer surplus, (v) producer surplus, and (vi) deadweight loss. Two notes: (1) the area of a triangle is base * height, (2) if you are getting really messy answers here, you may have made a mistake in part (a). (c) The government is concerned about the monopoly and decides to impose a price ceiling. Illustrate the efficient price ceiling on your diagram. i. Illustrate and calculate the price ceiling that will result in an efficient outcome. ii. Compute consumer and producer surplus at the efficient outcome. iii.…
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