How many ipods would a perfectly competitive market produce

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Perfect Competition and Monopoly

Define the following terms:

Barriers to Entry:

Long-run Competitive Equilibrium:

Marginal Cost:

Marginal Revenue:

Market Power:

Market Share:

Market Structure:

Monopoly:

Normal Profit:

Short Answer Questions:

1. What are the six defining characteristics of a perfectly competitive market?

2. Explain the shutdown decision? (When do firms decide not to produce?)

3. Why do firms in a competitive market earn zero profits in the long run?

4. Why do firms in a competitive industry have a perfectly elastic (horizontal) demand curve?

5. Explain why a perfectly competitive firm will still earn a positive accounting profit even though they earn zero economic profit?

6. What factors are necessary for a monopoly to exist?

7. What gives the monopolist the ability to earn positive economic profits when the firm facing perfect competition can only earn zero economic profits in the long-run

1. Complete the table below and answer the corresponding questions.

P = MC	Output	Total Revenue	Fixed Costs	Vatiable Costs	Total Costs	Marginal Coss	^Average Total Costs Profit
20	0				50	-	-
	1			15
	2				75
	3					5
	4					2
	5							13
	6			47
	7				112
	8					25
	9						18
	10							3

a. According to the table above, is this a perfectly competitive firm or a monopolist?

b. What is the profit maximizing level of output?

c. How much profit does this firm make at the profit maximizing level of output?

d. What is causing profit to decrease beyond the profit maximizing level of output?

2. Use the graphs below to answer the following questions

862_Graph of the firm.png

a. Is the firm pictured above experiencing positive or negative profits?

b. Draw and label the profit/loss rectangle on the graph of the firm.

c. Explain the process of returning to zero economic profits works.

d. Illustrate the process you explained in part c on the graphs above

3. Use the graphs below to answer the following questions

157_Graph of the firm1.png

a. Is the firm pictured above experiencing positive or negative profits?

b. Draw and label the profit/loss rectangle on the graph of the firm.

c. Explain the process of returning to zero economic profits works.

d. Illustrate the process you explained in part c on the graphs above

4. Complete the table below and answer the corresponding questions.

P = MR	Output	Total Revenue	Fixed Cost	Variable Cost	Total Cost	Marginal Cost	Average Total Cost	Profit
50	0				150
	1			35
	2					30
	3			105
			150		305
	5				365
	6			28C

a. What is the profit maximizing level of production?

b. What is the profit at the level of production in part a?

c. Explain why this firm would choose to produce the level in part a rather than shutting down and not producing even though they will be losing money?

5. Use the graph below to answer the following questions.

787_Graph of the firm2.png

a. How many iPods would a perfectly competitive market produce?

b. What price would the perfectly competitive market charge?

c. How much profit would the perfectly competitive market make?

d. How many iPods would a monopolistic market produce?

e. What price would a monopolistic market charge?

f. How much profit will the monopolistic market make?

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