Principles of Microeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
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ISBN: 9780133024166
Author: Karl E. Case
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 1P
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Breaking up monopoly and pareto-efficient change,

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The statement is disagreed because it is possible for the breakup to be a potential Pareto improvement even if it makes the shareholders worse off. Efficient change inculcates the changes that made some shareholders better off and others worse off but in which those who gain receive benefits that are greater than the costs imposed on the losers. This implies that the breakup will be an efficient change if the consumers will gain more than the shareholders lose.

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Pareto-efficiency: Pareto efficiency is an optimal economic state where the resource allocation is in such a way that it makes at least one person better off without making anyone worse off.

Monopoly: Monopoly is a market structure where there is only one seller of a good or service that does not have a close substitute.

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