What is meant by allocative efficiency? How does perfect competition lead to allocative efficiency?
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Does the market system result in allocative efficiency? In the long run, perfect competition
A. results in allocative efficiency because firms produce where price equals marginal cost.
B. does not result in allocative efficiency because firms enter and exit until they break even where price equals minimum average cost.
C. results in allocative efficiency because firms produce where the marginal benefit consumers receive from consuming the last unit of the good sold is greater than marginal cost.
D. does not result in allocative efficiency because price does not equal the marginal benefit consumers receive from consuming the last unit of the good sold.
E. does not result in allocative efficiency because firms produce an identical product that offers consumers no variety.
Assuming that the market for cigarettes is in perfect competition, what does the allocative and productive efficiency imply in this case? What does it not imply?
Refer to the diagram. At output level Q1:a. neither productive nor allocative efficiency is achieved.b. both productive and allocative efficiency is achieved.c. allocative efficiency is achieved, but productive efficiency is not.d. productive efficiency is achieved, but allocative efficiency is not.