Chapter 20: Problem 740
Draw a diagram for a firm in monopolistic competition, including the marginal cost, average total cost, marginal revenue, and demand schedules. Show what the equilibrium price and output will be.
Chapter 20: Problem 740
Draw a diagram for a firm in monopolistic competition, including the marginal cost, average total cost, marginal revenue, and demand schedules. Show what the equilibrium price and output will be.
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In making his original analysis of monopolistic competition, Edward Chamberlin assumed that all of the firms in an industry face similar cost and demand curves. What is the problem with this assumption?
Why is marginal revenue below the demand curve for the monopolistically competitive firm?
Is it possible for many firms to sell exactly the same product, and still be in monopolistic competition?
The market for pizza pie behaves as follows: Government has set the price at \(\$ 3.00\) a pie and the quantity demanded is assumed to be constant at \(1,000,000\) pies per year. There are five companies in the market, each selling exactly \(20 \%\) of the total quantity. The five companies' products are identical and cost each company \(\$ 2.00\) each to produce. Early this year, company A added a secret ingredient its product which costs \(\$ 0.30\) for each pie. As a result, Company A's share of total pizza sales increased to \(40 \%\), at the expense of the four other companies whose market share dropped to \(15 \%\) apiece. With the industry in an uproar over the shift away from equal shares of the market, Company A's president offered to tell what the secret ingredient was if each company would pay him \(\$ 35,000\), reasoning that each other company could double its sales, just as Company A had, and would therefore be more than willing to pay the \(\$ 35,000\). (a) What is the fallacy here? (b) Should the other companies accept A's offer? What should they propose instead if they wish to return to an evenly divided market with a uniform product?
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