1.) Suppose you have 5 identical Bertrand (price-competing) firms with MC for each equal to $10. The market elasticity of demand is -2.0. What is the market price?    a. none of the available options. b.  $10 c. $12.50  1d. 0.71.

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1.) Suppose you have 5 identical Bertrand (price-competing) firms with MC for each equal to $10. The market elasticity of demand is -2.0. What is the market price?
  
a. none of the available options.
b.  $10
c. $12.50
 1d. 0.71. 
2.) 
Reconsider the previous question. Suppose 2 new price-competing firms enter the market. What will be the market price?
  
a. none of the available options.
b.  $11.11
c. $9.09. 
d. $10. 

 
 
 
 


 
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Reconsider the previous question. Suppose 2 new price-competing firms enter the market. What will be the market price?
  
a. none of the available options.
b.  $11.11
c. $9.09. 
d. $10. 
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