replace their reclining chairs with lounge sets. b) Freedom Furniture and Domain's lounge sets are made out of wood. The price of wood goes up. C) Freedom Furniture's total fixed cost increases. d) The government imposes an excise tax on lounge sets produced by Domain, but not on those produced by Freedom Furniture.
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- There is much evidence that large firms with considerable market power (firms such asmonopolies) may not maximize profits but may pursue quite different objectives such asgrowth or sales revenue maximization. What are the arguments put forward to defendmonopoly? Name any 5 Generally, the aim of a business is to maximize profit. Which point should a firm operateat in order to achieve maximum profit? By making use of a graph indicate clearly the pointat which a firm makes maximum profit and a point where a firm increase their output inorder to enhance profit as well as well as the points where they should reduce theirproduction if they want to enhance profitNeed answer for part b only Zeus and Iron are the only two cement producers in Gotham. The cement they produce is essentially identical. In this market, each firm chooses the output level to produce and the price is determined by aggregate output (Cournot competition). The inverse demand for cement is given by P = 225 − Q/2 . Q is measured in tons and P is in euros. The marginal cost for Zeus is constant at 50 euros/ton. The respective cost for Iron is constant at 40 euros/ton. A technological innovation in the production process allows both firms to reduce marginal cost by 5 euros/ton. a) How much would each firm be willing to pay for the innovation, if it were the only firm to acquire it? b) Consider a situation where firms’ managers, simultaneously and non-cooperatively decide whether to acquire the innovation or not, which costs 900 euros, and then compete in quantities. What is the equilibrium of this game, based on its payoff matrix?13) Two identical firms are engaged in Cournot competition, with cost functionsTCA(QA) = 30 QA and TCB(QB) = 30 QB. The market demand is given by P = 480 –3Q.a) Plot the best response functions and report the Cournot-Nash equilibrium quantities, price and profits.b) What are the prices, quantities, and profits for the firms if they decide to collude and share profits equally?c) Show that firms have an incentive the deviate from the collusive outcome.d) Find the Stackelberg equilibrium if A leads and B follows.e) Show the equilibria in the previous parts on the inverse demand function. Calculate and identify consumersurplus and deadweight loss in each equilibrium. If you can only answer a limited amount of questions, please answer d and e :)