ECON 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Lifesaving, Zidovudine, Market Power

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Total revenues and the elasticity of demand. When demand curve is inelastic, as price goes up a lot, quantity goes down by only a little. Revenue will go up when price goes up. Revenue will go down when price goes down. When the demand curve is elastic, as price goes up, revenue decreases. Hiv drugs are priced well above production costs because of. The you can"t take it with you effect (aids to market power) The other people"s money effect (aids to market power) Gsk, the world"s largest producer of aids drugs, owns the patent on combivir. A patent is a government grant that gives the power the exclusive rights. Gsk"s patent on combivir gives gsk market power, the power to raise price. A monopoly is simply a firm with market power. Competition will drive the price down to the marginal cost of production. Patents are not the only source of market power.

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Managers of a monopoly under rate of return regulation have an incentive to

a. underestimate the firm's costs.

b. exaggerate the firm's costs.

c. minimize the monopoly's deadweight loss.

d. exaggerate the firm's profit.

e. earn zero economic profit.

Which of the following is correct?
i. All linear demand curves have a constant slope and a constant price elasticity of demand.
ii. The price elasticity of demand changes while moving along a downward-sloping linear demand curve.
iii. The magnitude of the slope of all linear demand curves is equal to the price elasticity of demand.

a. iii only.

b. ii only.

c. i, ii, and iii.

d. i only.

e. i and ii.

________ natural monopolies is a commonly used, potential solution to the problems presented by natural monopolies.

a. Giving incentives to firms to become

b. Regulating

c. Breaking up firms that are

d. Outlawing price discrimination by

e. Refusing to grant patents to

In the short run, a perfectly competitive firm

a. must suffer an economic loss.

b. must earn an economic profit.

c. might make an economic profit, incur an economic loss, or make a normal profit.

d. must make either an economic profit or a normal profit.

e. must earn a normal profit.

To determine if a market is an oligopoly, we need to determine if

a. cartels are legal in their market.

b. the firms are so few that they recognize their mutual interdependencies.

c. the firms make identical or differentiated products.

d. there are many firms in the market.

e. the market's HHI is less than 900.

Increasing marginal returns to labor

a. occur only when there are increasing marginal returns to capital.

b. are the result of specialization and division of labor in the production process.

c. describe the portion of a total product curve where the marginal product is negative.

d. mean that two workers produce less than twice the output of one worker.

e. occur when a particularly efficient worker is employed.

The return to entrepreneurship, which is what the firm's owner could earn running another business, is known as

a. entrepreneur's profit.

b. economic profit.

c. excessive profit.

d. accounting profit.

normal profit.

Both price supports and a price floor can

a. decrease the price below the equilibrium price.

b. increase consumer surplus.

c. create a deadweight loss.

d. decrease output below the equilibrium quantity.

e. have no effect on producer surplus.

In economics, cost is ________, and benefit is ________.

a. the amount of money that you pay for something; the amount of money that someone else is willing to pay you
b. what you must give up to get something; what you are willing to give up to get it
c. the amount of money that you pay on the margin; the amount of money that you receive on the margin
d. what you are willing to give up to get it; what you must give up to get something
e. what you are willing to pay on the margin; what the government pays you when you are unemployed or retired

If a substitute good is easy to find, then demand for a good is

a. unit elastic.

b. perfectly inelastic.

c. elastic.

d. inelastic.

e. Substitutes don't have any effect on elasticity.

ECON 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Lifesaving, Zidovudine, Market Power

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