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Explain why AT&T's new plans might be price discrimination. Draw a graph to illustrate the original plan and the new plans.
Explain why the wireless market might tend toward either a single firm or a small number of firms.
Draw a graph to illustrate the effects of the F.C.C.'s new regulations on the price, quantity, total surplus, and deadweight loss.
Provide some examples of industries near your school that operate in monopolistic competition (excluding those in the figure below).
How does a firm in monopolistic competition decide how much to produce and at what price to offer its product for sale?
Why does a single-price monopoly produce a smaller output and charge more than the price that would prevail if the market were perfectly competitive?
What is the relationship between price, marginal revenue, and marginal cost when a single price monopoly is maximizing profit?
What is the relationship between marginal cost and marginal revenue when a single-price monopoly maximizes profit?
Explain three possible feelings or thoughts on that a person who has been subjected to violent crime may have.
Explain the long-run effects of the increase in global demand for smartphones on the market for smartphones.
What are the features of the market for apps that make it competitive? Illustrate your answer to part (c) with an appropriate graphical analysis.
In a perfectly competitive market, each firm maximizes its profit by choosing only the quantity to produce. Is the statement true? Explain why or why not.
How technological change in Blu-ray production might support the prediction of lower prices in the long run. Illustrate your explanation with a graph.
How might Exxon Mobil's decision affect the economic profit of other gasoline retailers?
Why did grain prices fall in 2008? Draw a graph to show that short-run effect on an individual farmer's economic profit.
Under what conditions would this shutdown decision maximize Chevy Volt's economic profit (or minimize its loss)? Explain your answer.
Why does each of these gas stations have so little control over the price of the gasoline it sells?
Money in the Tank Two gas stations stand on opposite sides of the road. Describe the elasticity of demand that each of these gas stations faces.
In what type of market do these gas stations operate? What determines the price of gasoline and the marginal revenue from gasoline?
In perfect competition in long-run equilibrium, can consumer surplus or producer surplus be increased? Explain your answer.
In what type of market does Lin's operate? What determines the price of fortune cookies? What determines Lin's marginal revenue?
Describe the choices that producers make and explain why producers are efficient on the market supply curve.
Describe the choices that consumers make and explain why consumers are efficient on the market demand curve.
Describe what happens to output, price, and economic profit in the short run and in the long run in a competitive market following: An increase in demand.
What triggers exit in a competitive market? Describe the process that ends further exit.