The accompanying diagram shows the demand, marginal revenue, and marginal cost of a monopolist. (LO1, LO3, LO5) a. Determine the profit-maximizing output and price. b. What price and output would prevail if this firm’s product were sold by price-taking firms in a perfectly competitive market? c. Calculate the deadweight loss of this monopoly.
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- Reference: Ref 11-2 (Exhibit: Profit Maximization for a Firm in Monopolistic Competition) Suppose that an innovation reduces a firm's fixed costs and reduces cost from ATC to ATC'. Suppose further that after the innovation reduced the cost to ATC', it costs a total of $18 per unit to produce 170 units per day. If the firm charges a price equal to marginal cost, total net profit will be: a. $1,190. b. $3,400. c. $1,700. d. $3,060. Note:- Please avoid using ChatGPT and refrain from providing handwritten solutions; otherwise, I will definitely give a downvote. Also, be mindful of plagiarism. Answer completely and accurate answer. Rest assured, you will receive an upvote if the answer is accurate.You are the manager of BlackSpot Computers, which competes directly with Condensed Computers to sell highpowered computers to businesses. From the two businesses’ perspectives, the two products are indistinguishable. The large investment required to build production facilities prohibits other firms from entering this market, and existing firms operate under the assumption that the rival will hold output constant. The inverse market demand for computers is P=5900-Q , and both firms produce at a marginal cost of $800 per computer. Currently, BlackSpot earns revenues of $4.25 million and profits (net of investment, R&D, and other fixed costs) of $890,000. The engineering department at BlackSpot has been steadily working on developing an assembly method that would dramatically reduce the marginal cost of producing these high-powered computers and has found a process that allows it to manufacture each computer at a marginal cost of $500. How will this technological advance impact your…You are the manager of BlackSpot Computers, which competes directly with Condensed Computers to sell high-powered computers to businesses. From the two businesses’ perspectives, the two products are indistinguishable. The large investment required to build production facilities prohibits other firms from entering this market, and existing firms operate under the assumption that the rival will hold output constant. The inverse market demand for computers is P = 5,900 − Q, and both firms produce at a marginal cost of $800 per computer. Currently, BlackSpot earns revenues of $4.25 million and profits (net of investment, R&D, and other fixed costs) of $890,000. The engineering department at BlackSpot has been steadily working on developing an assembly method that would dramatically reduce the marginal cost of producing these high-powered computers and has found a process that allows it to manufacture each computer at a marginal cost of $500. How will this technological advance impact…
- Use the accompanying graph to answer the questions that follow. (LO1, LO2) a. Suppose this monopolist is unregulated. (1) What price will the firm charge to maximize its profits? (2) What is the level of consumer surplus at this price? b. Suppose the firm’s price is regulated at $80. (1) What is the firm’s marginal revenue if it produces 7 units? (2) If the firm is able to cover its variable costs at the regulated price, how much output will the firm produce in the short run to maximize its profits? (3) In the long run, how much output will this firm produce if the price remains regulated at $80?As the manager of a monopoly, you face potential government regulation. Your inversedemand is P = 40 − 2Q, and your costs are C(Q) = 8Q. (LO1, LO2, LO6)a. Determine the monopoly price and output.You are the country manager of a firm that produces and markets a generic type of soft drink in a competitive market in Ghana. In addition to the large number of generic products in your market, you also compete against major brands such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Suppose that, due to the successful lobbying efforts of sugar producers in Ghana, Parliament levies a ȼ1.20 per pound tariff on all imported raw sugar: the primary input for your product. In addition, Coke and Pepsi launches an aggressive advertising campaign designed to persuade consumers that their branded products are superior to generic soft drinks. How will these events impact the market outcomes of generic soft drinks if effect of the tariff is larger the effect of advertising of Coke and Pepsi on the generic type of soft drink? [Explain with an appropriate graph]
- You are the country manager of a firm that produces and markets a generic type of soft drink in a competitive market in Ghana. In addition to the large number of generic products in your market, you also compete against major brands such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Suppose that, due to the successful lobbying efforts of sugar producers in Ghana, Parliament levies a ȼ1.20 per pound tariff on all imported raw sugar: the primary input for your product. In addition, Coke and Pepsi launches an aggressive advertising campaign designed to persuade consumers that their branded products are superior to generic soft drinks. How will these events impact the market outcomes of generic soft drinks if effect of the tariff is larger the effect of advertising of Coke and Pepsi on the generic type of soft drink?Baker Enterprises operates a midsized company that specializes in the production of a unique type of memory chip. It is currently the only firm in the market, and it earns $10 million per year by charging the monopoly price of $115 per chip. Baker is concerned that a new firm might soon attempt to clone its product. If successful, this would reduce Baker’s profit to $4 million per year. Estimates indicate that, if Baker increases its output to 280,000 units (which would lower its price to $100 per chip), the entrant will stay out of the market and Baker will earn profits of $8 million per year for the indefinite future. 1. What must Baker do to credibly deter entry by limit pricing? 2. Does it make sense for Baker to limit price if the interest rate is 10 percent?Suppose you are the economic adviser of a company producing three brands of mobile phones; Nokia 10 , Samsung X and iPhone Z. Suppose further that, your company currently sells 120 units of iPhone Z at ¢800 per unit, 150 units of Samsung X at ¢800 per unit and 200 units of Nokia 10 at ¢100 per unit, but in a bid to maximize profit, the company’s managing director proposes an increase in price of Samsung X from ¢800 to ¢1000 per unit for which quantity demanded is anticipated to fall from 150 to 100 units; iPhone Z from ¢800 to ¢1200 per unit for which quantity demanded is anticipated to fall from 120 to 100 units; and Nokia 10 from¢100 to ¢200 per unit for which quantity demanded is expected to fall from 200 to 100 units. 1.Using the mid-point formula, compute the price elasticity of demand for each brand.2. From your answer in i, what is the type and economic interpretation of each brand’s value of elasticity.
- A large firm has two divisions: an upstream division that is a monopoly supplier of an input whose only market is the downstream division that produces the final output. To produce one unit of the final output, the downstream division requires one unit of the input. If the inverse demand for the final output is P = 1,000 − 80Q, would the company’s value be maximized by paying upstream and downstream divisional managers a percentage of their divisional profits?The Hull Petroleum Company and Inverted V are retail gasoline franchises that compete in a local market to sell gasoline to consumers. Hull and Inverted V are located across the street from each other and can observe the prices posted on each other’s marquees. Demand for gasoline in this market is Q = 80 -9P, and both franchises obtain gasoline from their supplier at $2.75 per gallon. On the day that both franchises opened for business, each owner was observed changing the price of gasoline advertised on its marquee more than 10 times; the owner of Hull lowered its price to slightly undercut Inverted V’s price, and the owner of Inverted V lowered its advertised price to beat Hull’s price. Since then, prices appear to have stabilized. Under current conditions, how many gallons of gasoline are sold in the market, and at what price? Gallons sold: ? Price: $ ? How would prices differ if Hull had service attendants available to fill consumers’ tanks but Inverted V was only a self-service…Assume you are the Director of Marketing for Majjus Enterprise, a firm that produces a new product called African Solar. Your company sells to two distinct geographical markets-East Legon and Nima. Majjus Enterprise is described as a monopolist and has the possibility of discriminating between its East Legon and Nima Markets. In order to derive the maximum profit from the production process, you engaged the services of an Econometrician, who estimated the demand functions for both East Legon and Nima markets to be: Q1 = 24 – 0.2P1 East Legon Market Q2 = 10 – 0.05P2 Nima Market Where Q1 and Q2 are the respective quantities of African Solar demanded in the East Legon and Nima markets and P1 and P2 are their respective prices (in GH¢). If the Total Cost (TC) of Majjus Enterprise for producing African Solar for these two markets is given as TC = 35 + 40Q, where Q = Q1 + Q2. What profit will Majjus Enterprise make with and without price discrimination? What…