Principles of Microeconomics
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Author: N. Gregory Mankiw
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Chapter 15, Problem 2CQQ
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The relationship between price, marginal revenue and marginal cost.
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Consider a monopoly firm producing laptops. Below are the equations describing this firm's economic conditions.
Demand: Q = 10 – P
Marginal Revenue: MR= 10 – 2Q
Total Cost: TC = 4 + Q + 0.5Q²
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Marginal Cost: MC=1+Q
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The produced quantity is 3.
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The profit this monopoly firm can make is 9.5.
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You are the manager of a monopoly, and your analysts have estimated your demand and cost functions as P = 300 − 3Q and C(Q) = 1,500 + 2Q2, respectively.
a. What price-quantity combination maximizes your firm’s profits?
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unit elastic
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d. What price-quantity combination maximizes revenue?
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Draw the graph. If the monopoly is a doing perfect price discrimination, then:
the monopoly produces a quantity Q = ______ where ________________ (which curves intersect?)
the monopoly charges a price of ________ (trick question!!!!)
the consumer surplus is CS = ______.
the producer surplus is PS = _________(identify the area on the graph and calculate it).
this monopoly ________ (is / is not) efficient because ______________________.
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