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If saffron producers reduce the price of saffron, what will happen to total revenue as a result? Will marginal revenue be positive, zero, or negative?
What is Sally's total revenue when she chooses to sell 6 shells? What is the marginal revenue Sally receives from deciding to sell a 6th shell?
Explain why consumers might reject a superior product for an inferior one in a market like this.
Why does the profit-maximizing strategy of a firm with market power create a deadweight loss?
What is the profit-maximizing output level for a firm with market power?
What are the characteristics of a natural monopoly? Why is it efficient for society for a natural monopoly to produce all the output of an entire industry?
How does the marginal revenue received by a seller depend on the price elasticity of demand? Explain your answer.
What is the firm's marginal revenue? Find the firm's profit-maximizing quantity where MR = MC. Find the firm's profit-maximizing price and profit.
Calculate the profit-maximizing price for this seller. Calculate how this tax will affect the price the monopolist charges its customers.
Graph this demand curve. Then, calculate the profit-maximizing price and quantity of fairy dust. Finally, calculate the seller's profit.
Many industrywide studies of the elasticity of demand for cigarettes. How can you reconcile these apparently contradictory statements?
How many units will an unregulated monopolist sell? How many units will a profit-maximizing monopolist sell when the price ceiling is in place? At what price?
Calculate the profit-maximizing price and quantity, as well as producer and consumer surplus and the deadweight loss from market power.
Calculate the deadweight loss of monopoly in the market for the televised Yahtzee tournament.
Explain the advantages of such a system in maximizing social well-being relative to the traditional system of awarding patents.
Write out the firm's total revenue as a function of Q. Find the firm's profit-maximizing quantity by applying calculus to the profit function.
What is this firm's marginal cost function? Over what range of output are the firm's marginal costs decreasing? Increasing?
What are the two requirements of price discrimination? Why is producer surplus maximized under perfect price discrimination?
Contrast direct price discrimination and indirect price discrimination. Provide an example of product versioning.
Why are collusions and cartels often unstable? What is the market equilibrium in Bertrand competition with identical goods?
How much profit will Microsoft generate from a representative group of one author and one economist?
How much must Rockway & Daughters reduce the price of its Rockway line in order to achieve incentive compatibility?
If the owners of the theater decide to segment the market, who should be charged a higher price, students or adults?
Many gyms offer a mixed two-part tariff pricing scheme. One can join the gym and then have daily access. What must be true of the gym's customers' demands?
What is the difference between mixed bundling and pure bundling? What are the two component prices of a twopart tariff?