ECON 1050 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Demand Curve, Fixed Cost, Perfect Competition

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Monopolistic competition is a market structure in which: a large number of firms compete, each firm produces a differentiated product, firms compete on product quality, price and marketing, firms are free to enter and exit the industry. Small marketshare each firm supplies a small part of the total industry output. Each firm has limited power to influence the price. Ignore other firms firm must be sensitive to the average market price of the product, but the firm does not pay attention to any one individual competitor. Collusion impossible - friends can conspire to fix a higher price called collusion. Coordination is usually difficult and collusion is not possible. Product differentiation a firm practices product differentiation if it makes a product that is slightly different from the product of competing firms. It is a close substitute but not a perfect substitute for the products of other firms.

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1. A monopoly market structure is characterized by

a. large number of firms, standardized products, easy entry and exit.

b. large number of firms, differentiated products, easy entry and exit.

C. small number of firms, standardized or differentiated products, difficult entry.

d. one firm, a unique product without close substitutes, and impossible entry.

e. one firm, differentiated product, impossible entry.

2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of monopolistic competition?

a. Differentiated products

b. A downward-sloping demand curve for individual firms

c. Firms that are price makers

d. Impeded entry into the industry

e. A large number of firms

3. One factor that distinguishes oligopoly from other market structures is

a. the ease of entry into the market.

b. the interdependence of firms.

c. the slope of the demand curve.

d. the degree of product differentiation.

e. the amount of advertising expenditures.

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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.

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

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