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- For many years, the Justice Department has tried to break up large firms like IBM, Microsoft, and most recently Google, on the grounds that their large market share made them essentially monopolies. In a global market, where U.S. films compete with firms from other countries, would this policy make the same sense as it might in a purely domestic context?1. What stops oligopolists from acting together as a monopolist and earning the highest possible level of profits? Is there a way for oligopolists to attempt to maximize profits? What are the risks of such attempts (and utimately, generally cause such attempts to fail)? 2. Using the production schedule table in question 1, Marginal Productivity reaches a maximum with the hiring of which worker? A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6 E. 7d) If a price ceiling of $17.50 is imposed by the government on the monopolist, estimate (based on the graph) the quantity that the monopolist will produce. In this case, does the price ceiling in a monopoly improve economic efficiency or not? e) Supposed that instead of a regular monopoly, the graph above pertains to a natural monopoly, what change must be made to the graph to depict a natural monopoly?
- (a) Why MUL is called a monopoly? Does it enjoy monopoly in car manufacture? (b) In what way do customers surfer from monopoly practices of MUL. (c) What do you suggest to remedy the situation?Give an example of a government-created monopoly. Is creating this monopoly necessarily bad public policy? Explain. ii. Define natural monopoly. What does the size of a market have to do with whether an industry is a natural monopoly? iii. Why is a monopolist’s marginal revenue less than the price of its good? Can marginal revenue ever be negative? Explain.For many years, the Justice Department has tried to break up large firms like IBM,Microsoft, and most recently Google, on the grounds that their large market share madethem essentially monopolies. In a global market, where U.S. firms compete with firms fromother countries, would this policy make the same sense as it might in a purely domesticcontext?
- If Congress reduced the period of patent protection from 20 years to 10 years, what would likely happen to the amount of private research and development?May and Raj me the only two growers who provide organically grown corn to a local grocery store. They know that if they cooperated and produced less corn, they could raise the price of the com. If they work independently, they will each earn 100. If they decide to work together and both lower their output, they call each earn 150. If one person lowers output and the other does not, the person who lowers output will earn $1 and the other person will capture the entire market and will earn 200. Table 10.6 represents the choices available to Mary and Raj. What is the best choice for Raj if he is sole that Mary will cooperate? If Mary thinks Raj will cheat, what should Mary do and why? What is the prisoners dilemma result? What is the preferred choice if they could ensure cooperation? A = Work independently; B = Cooperate and Lower Output. (Each results entry lists Rajs earnings first, and Marys earnings second.)If you were developing a product (like a web browser) for a market with significant barriers to entry, how would you try to get your product into the market successfully?
- To ensure safety and efficacy, the Food and Drug Administration regulates the medicines that pharmacies are allowed to sell in the United States. Sometimes this means a company must test a drug for years before it can reach the market. We can easily identify the winners. in this system as those who are protected from unsafe drugs that might otherwise harm them. Who ate the more anonymous losers who suffer from strict medical regulations?a) What are the output and price where the firm’s profit is maximum? What is the firm’s economic profit? Show solution. b) Determine the deadweight loss for this market. What is the source of the deadweight loss in a monopoly? c) If government regulators where to ask the firm to charge a price and quantity that would be socially (or allocatively) efficient, what would these price and quantity be? At this output and price, what would happen to the consumer surplus, producer surplus and total surplus compared to the situation under monopoly.3) Your the head of a company that works with the government to launch space tech. Your company estimates that the worldwide market demand curve for space tech is Q = 30,000 – P/20. Including your company, there are a total of three firms in the rocket business, each with an MC of $300K per rocket launch. c. What would the price be if the firm is a monopoly? If all 3 firms have monopoly prices and split them equally, what would their profits be? Explain. d. For the next 5 years the firm will face this decision yearly Is there an equilibrium where all of the firms would set the monopoly price in the first year? Explain. e. The three firms will decide prices yearly, what is the minimum discount factor if firms decide to cooperate with each other throughout to set the monopoly price? Explain.
