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Are competitive pressures present in markets with high barriers to entry? How will high entry barriers into a market influence:

a. the long-run profitability of the firms in the market

b. the cost efficiency of the firms

c. the likelihood that some inefficient (high cost) firms will survive

d. the incentive of entrepreneurs to develop substitutes for the product supplied by the firms

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Related questions

1) A natural monopoly exists when:

a. A few firms collude to make one large firm

b. Firms enter the industry as a result of profit incentives

c. Economies of scale provide large cost advantages to having one firm produce the industry's output

d. Firms naturally maximize regardless of market structure

 

2) A(n) ____ is a single firm with ___, whereas a(n) ___ implies an industry with ____ firm(s) and ____ .

a. Monopoly; barriers to entry; oligopoly; few; no barriers to entry

b. Oligopoly; no barriers to entry; monopoly; many; easy entry and exit

c. Monopoly; barriers to entry; monopolistic competition; many; easy entry and exit

d. Monopolistic competitor; barriers to entry; monopoly; one; barriers to entry

 

3) In monopolistic competition:

a. Each firm produces a product identical to that of every other firm in the industry

b. Firms are aware of their strategic interdependence

c. Firms earn large economic profits in the long run

d. Firms earn zero economic profits in the long run

 

4) A monopolistically competitive industry, such as corn snack chips, and a perfectly competitive industry, like wheat farming, are alike in that:

a. There are many firms in each industry

b. Firms in both types of industries produce similar but not identical products

c. Barriers to entry in both industries are large

d. Firms in both types of industries produce identical products

1. How is a monopolistically competitive market similar to a perfectly competitive market?

A. There are no restrictions on the entry of new firms.

B. Both have differentiated products with close substitutes.

C. Producers with market power set their own prices.

D. Both have homogeneous products with no close substitutes.

 

2. Which of the following common features do monopolistically competitive markets, and monopolies share?

A. Barriers restrict new firms from entering.

B. Firms face downward-sloping demand curves.

C. Consumers with market power set prices.

D. Producers with no market power set their own prices.

25. One difference between perfect competition and monopolistic competition is A) firms in a perfectly competitive market produce similar but slightly different products. B) in perfect competition, the product produced has no close substitutes. C) monopolistic competition has barriers to entry, whereas perfect competition has none. D) a small number of firms compete in a monopolistically competitive market and a large number of firms compete in a perfectly competitive market. E) firms in monopolistic competition have some degree of market power.

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