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The product-variety externality arises in monopolistically competitive markets because:

a. firms produce with excess capacity.

b. firms try to differentiate their products.

c. firms would like to produce homogeneous products, but a large number of firms prohibit it.

d. entry and exit are restricted.

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Related questions

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.

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

A major difference between monopolistic competition and perfect competition is:

a. there are barriers to entry in monopolistic competition. There are no barriers to entry in perfectly competitive markets.

b. monopolistically competitive firms sell differentiated products. Perfectly competitive firms sell identical products.

c. government regulation restricts the ability of monopolistically competitive firms to change their prices. Perfectly competitive firms face no price regulation.

d. the market demand curve in a monopolistically competitive market slopes downward. The market demand curve in a perfectly competitive market is horizontal

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